Hermits In Your Reef??

[AmyC]

I've always kept a few as scavangers and I've kept the scarlet or the blue leg, I think I like the blue leg better because they seem to stay smaller but I swear I've seen the red leg eat cyno. I have never kept them in the numbers that stores recommend I keep about 5 to 10 in a 75 gallon tank

 

[shred5]

I have had blue legs and scarlets.... They both kill snails esp. cerith snails. Hell the crabs will kill each other for the shells.
They are both like to pick at corals and steal food. They also like to climb on and irritate corals esp. gorgonians and leathers. As far as grazers go they do not eat much, a astrea eats more.

Dave

 

[workn4frags]

go for the blue legs, the scarlets get a little bigger and tend to knock things over more. + the blues cruzzz all over the tank, I don't see my scarlets move that much.

 

[bkv1997]

David:

Don't turn back to the dark side.... Crabs are the Devil... Get more snails and shrimp.

Well I was scared by a buddy at one time and I evicted all of my crabs. Now I wonder if they would help keep the algae in check a little in the frag tank and maybe drop a few in the main..

 

[revhtree]

David:

Don't turn back to the dark side.... Crabs are the Devil... Get more snails and shrimp.

LOL! This is the buddy! Everything seems fine with the crabs so far! :hammer:

 

[bkv1997]

Nooooo...... good luck.

 

[Rcpilot]

I had 3 red legged mexican crabs in my 30g reef. I also have about 50 shells of various sizes for them to constantly swap in and out of.

They are great. I have 14 astreas, 4 margarites, 1 diamond watchman goby, 1 6-line wrasse and one ocellaris clown. I've got 9 zoa colonies, 2 mushroom colonies, 1 acopora, 1 clonoy of brown butrtons, 2 feather dusters and 1 colony of yellow polyps. The crabs don't mess with any of my tank ihbabitants.

 

[143gadgets]

Trust Nothing With Claws!!!!!

 

[aquarius77]

I keep hermits, they do a job and they are entertaining. My kids love the crabs...

I have a few scarlet and a nice population of dwarf blue legs.

 

[ficklefins]

I just put some blue leg hermits in my tank and so far so good. My pygmy angel does more damage to my nassarius snails than my hermits. The only thing I wish I had more of in my tank are large turbo snails.

 

[Hypertek99]

I keep blue legs with no problem. I did have Scarlets but they don't move around much. The just sit in one place all day long. I tried zebra hermits they are nice and small but man do they grow fast within a few months they are as big as turbo snails and the one big claw they have gets aggressive. I ended up feeding all mine to my mantis when they got big. It was cool to watch as the mantis was smaller than the zebra hermits and you can see the hermits run in fear.