hermit crabs

Hi. I'm struggling to find info on this. There's loads of where to buy shells, but I can't seem to find any on cleaning ones you have to make them aquarium safe. Anything special I have to do, or is a good scrub in RO enough? Thanks.

Hello! We’ve had an established tank with a pair of clownfish and blue-legged hermits for 2 years. We’re wondering how plastic rock, plants, and anemones should be cleaned PROPERLY and how often. We usually take them out once a month or 2 and clean them with hot water and a bit of low-splash...

Why is every single one of my hermit crabs in one place on my new zoanthid? This is really weird and I’ve never seen or heard id this before. (Pictures really bad because it’s my phone)

Hello, I have two Blue knuckled hermit crabs that are just too big for my tank / bio load at the moment. They are beautiful and perfectly healthy, but they’ve simply ran out of room in my tank. If you are located near Morgantown and would like to have them text/call me at 7249917252 . Thanks!

Hi guys, I’m completely new to all this so thought I’d get a second opinion I checked last night all three hermit crabs was out and about doing what they do. this morning whilst doing my checks I found only one crabs carcass or molt what do you guys think?

Hello everyone. I got a new hermit crab recently from PetCo, he or she is a “zebra” hermit crab. He has taken a liking to my Haitian Anemone. Constantly next to it, under it, or cuddling it. Is this normal and okay?

So this one of my hermit crabs likes to climb the edges of the tank and chill at the top. Is there a reason why he does this? He ends up falling down eventually and is fine but I’m just confused as to why he does this.

What’s up guys here is some pictures of my 2 new hermit crabs I added today. Looks like they are loving it. I bought some algae pellets for them to eat since I don’t have algae growing right now. Let me know what you all think!!

I’ve noticed some hermits have specific wants and needs for shells when provided the opportunity, it’s obviously always best to provide a large variety of shells for your crabs to choose from, but I’m trying to figure out which species like which shells the best. Ive noticed Halloween Hermits...

I introduced three new sea urchins to my long island sound tank yesterday. Floated them as I thought was appropriate amount of time (about 4 hours) I also added a couple mummychugs and two green crabs. Upon returning to my tank this morning all three urchins are flipped on their "backs" with...

Curious to know why and if you have ever seen hermit crabs dog pile on each other for days at a time? These guys have been here for about 4 days now and are not doing there jobs.

Hi everyone I started off in December 2020 with a 13.5 gallon reef tank I have just upgraded to 125 gallon reef tank and was wondering what’s a good number of hermit crabs to have I’ve had people tell me that I should have one per 10 gallons I’ve had people tell me that I should have one per...

This morning I noticed a patch of clove polyps that were growing up the glass had dissapeared completely. The glass is completely bare (no green film algae or anything) around where the polyps are missing as well. On both sides of the missing patch all the rest of the polyps are fine and open as...

I am looking to get a single hermit for my biocube 16 LED. I have a few cerith and astrea snails in there right now and a single scarlet hermit that may or may not be dead. Just added a small sized sand sifting conch recently. Would a halloween hermit be ok around this cleanup crew or would it...

Anyone have any opinion on zebra hermits? I’ve got one in my 32 biocube led and so far I know he’s killed one snail but whatever. I don’t care about that. My question is will he kill my blue legs and my scarlet? This is the first and only zebra hermit I’ve ever had. I found him half dead in a...

Hi guys, new to reefing and recently purchased some blue legged hermits online but when they came one was a dwarf zebra hermit. He has taken to our torch frag and literally doesn’t move off it, is this normal? Is he hurting it? Really appreciate some advice. We also had two reg legged hermits...

Currently have 6 hermits and 1 mexican turbo snail in my 32g and they are definitely not able to keep up! I was thinking: 5 Astraea Turbos 5 Super Tongan Nassarius 5 red dwarf hermits 5 blue dwarf hermits Is this too much? Too little? Good mix? any suggestions help!

New to saltwater aquarium hobby. I have a 20 gallon tank fish only. I have had general success with it up to this point (the fish are doing fine). I bought 4 electric blue hermit crabs for a CUC and in the last 2 weeks have lost 3. I also have a cleaner shrimp who has been doing great. My...

Hey y'all! I have a few photos to share of my setup. Added 3 macros today. Currently have a Clown and a flower nem in quarantine tank. Will post those 2 after introduction to display. Display has 1 Royal Gramma, 1 Citron Clown Goby, 1 Condylacti, 1 Bubbletip, 2 colonies of polyps, 1 colony of...

Currently have a 13.5 gallon thats loaded with crabs. I have a halloween hermit crab, 20+ electric orange hermit crab, decorator crabs, pitho crabs, all of which are crabs that don't touch my corals. On the other hand, I put a tiny cross barred venus clam in the sand bed and I later found that...

What is this hermit crab? Is it reef safe? Any information is welcomed! Thank you!

Hey all, Hoping to get some suggestions on what you think the best online sources are for hermits. I am looking to buy 50, and was wondering if there is any difference between sources online. Thanks for help!

Thought I would share some pics of my setup. Added the clowns two weeks ago, and the firefish yesterday. I was thinking of doing one or two more fish in here...

My corals were looking incredible for weeks now and I hadn’t seen any of the hermits in the tank bothering them aside from trampling my zoas while they roamed around...until today. I caught one of the blue legged hermit crabs literally in between the branches of my Garf Bonsai and it looked like...