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I bought a frogspawn several weeks ago and it was doing great until earlier this week when I saw one of my larger hermit crabs on top of the frogspawn after feeding it. Since the hermit crab attacked the coral has seemed unhappy and today looks as shown in the attached photo. Can the coral be...

Hi Everyone, first post. I have had a reef tank now for almost one year, my only fish are a clown pair, and a clown goby who is my favorite. I also have a few stars, and nas and troch snails. I recently went on vacation, and returned to find my corals dead and choked out by long hair algae...

can you have a one clown fish and snail or hermit crab in 5 gallon tank aquarium because I’m getting reef pico 5 gallon pico tank and l like to do it and do you guys recommend that tank size because I’m a beginners

hello everyone So I wanted some advice , have had my 20g tank for about 2 months now. Had a starfish (sand sifting) in my tank that I noticed was missing a limb one night to the next , and by the 3rd night he only had 2 limbs left. I have a hawkish , 2 saltwater Millie’s and a hermit crab I...

So I picked up some extra shells from the Lfs for my red legged hermit to give him some options to live in and when I threw this one in to my surprise some legs popped out… anyone know what type he his?? Black legs with yellow spots and yellow claws??? Got such a fright when I seen him come out...

Hello! I just got a sea hare [name: MooCows jr.] That eats GHA. I also have scarlet hermit crabs. And narassius snails x2 Will MooCows Jr. get eaten?? Sea hare is healthy and eating and pooping. Pic for imagination:

I have an 80 gallon, 3-4 months old now and been in an algae stage for a while; dinos, cyano and a lot of bryopsis over the rocks. I currently have a pair of snowflake clowns that have been in from the start, 2 scarlet hermits and 2 trochus snails and i had a royal gramma for 2 weeks that didn’t...

Hey guys Everything’s been going so well in the tank and everyone seems to be happy! Just one small question…I have 2 red legged hermits that do occasionally latch onto each other n then let go after a few minutes, I tend to leave them to it as there are plenty of shells for them to change...

he stays in one corner (alive confirmed) even though he molted recently, he had been staying here a while before. I'm not sure if they like hiding but every other hermit crab I've had was always out and about. It has algae and shelter but he'll never leave.

So my blue legged hermit crab disappeared on me for about 5 days in a 15G tank. Initially I though it died because that sucker could not be found and normally its very active. Low and behold I found it wedge against some rocks underneath. I thought maybe it got stuck because I see its body...

Hello. Still a newbie, still ballsing things up here and there despite tons of research... The latest thing I seem to have done wrong was disguard what I think was our little red legged hermits molted bits. I'm now told that it would have snacked on them now it's back in his shell - to gain...

Hello, my Fluval Evo 13.5 has been setup since October and has had a lot of algae up until late February. I started out with 3 trochus snails and 3 electric blue legged hermit crabs (I think one or two of these are just blue legged). The trochus lasted about 3 months and then randomly died. I...

hi? everyone~ very sad that there is a problem with my fish tank. Recently, the hermit crabs I was raising died one after another. The hermit crab I raised was called “Pagurus minutus Hess” Personally, I suspect that the death of hermit crabs is due to the hardness of sea water. The...

(ALL GONE) I'm moving across the country in a couple months and am having to break down my tank. Now that I have unloaded a decent chunk of my corals, I'm starting to sell off my fish and inverts. I'm happy to be super transparent, as I'd like these fish and inverts to go to fellow hobbyists...

Can clown fish fry and hermit crabs be together My clown fish fry are 3 days old and the water is tinted so i cant see if they are all still alive. was thinking of throwing a hermit in there to eat the dead fry if there are any. has anyone tried this before, this should also keep an ammonia...

I have two frags of gsp ones quite small while the other one is a large lump with strands about 2 inches in length I had got this Halloween crab about 3 days ago and today he went on the rock for the first time I've seen and literally went straight for the small lump of gsp, and started eating...

There is such a wide variety of both hermit crabs and snails, are some more or less compatible with eachother than others? Would a smaller hermit crab like a scarlet still kill a snail like a large trochus who's shell wouldn't even be suitable for such a crab? I would like to hear peoples'...

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Prepare your tanks for the holidays with our Reef Decoration holiday sale - up to 70% off select livestock now until November 15th - just in time for Thanksgiving! We offer free overnight shipping on orders 299.99 and over to the continental US via both FedEx and UPS. Govx ID users for...

My Halloween hermit had been very active, then suddenly went into hiding. He is now completely out of his shell. Do these guys molt their "exoskeletons" or is molting just considered them swapping shells? I do not have any other shells for him to go in to.

Today’s lucky contestant… It’s a blue leg hermit crab!!! Or is it? Ok folks… SHED or DEAD?!? *That is not/was not his shell.

i have a fair amount of hermit crabs and leaving shells scattered around looks so distracting, so i was thinking i want to do a small area with all of them in one place what kind of materials could i use? i think i’d like to do some kind of square container and a “Free Shells” sign on top. any...

I think my blue hermit has confused himself for a clownfish, and my green polyp leather with an anemone. I will remove the little guy and within seconds he’ll be nestled back in the leather. I guess isn’t not really symbiotic because the hermit is probably just annoying the coral while the...

This is Eugene. I collected him in South Florida back in June on the Atlantic side while on a weekend trip down there. He started off super small (smaller than a blue legged hermit crab) but is growing far faster than any other hermit crab I've ever had. He spends all day cleaning the sand bed...