Blueleg hermits? (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I have been told that blueleg hermits will sometimes eat snails and other hermit crabs. Is this true?

I am planning on increasing my cleaning crew and am trying to figure out what to add.

So far, I'm going with Turbo/Astrea snails and scarlet reef hermits.

Any other suggestions. Debating wether or not to get Nass. snails, not sure how much sand I'm gonna put in my tank after I swap all the rock and remove the current sand.

 

[yellowbelley]

i have a blue leg in my nano and he coexists with about 15 turbo snails, astrea snails, and some mini hemits (dont know id).

 

[Kabuto]

I haven't heard anything about eating snails but I did hear they have a tendancy to fight their own kind.

 

[incysor]

I've heard the big ones can go after snails. All the ones I've ordered have been the minis and I've never seen them going after them.

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[tvu]

my blue legged i have seen as being agressive. They've killed a few of my nerite snails for the shells. The don't seem to touch the astrea though.

 

[Guest]

tvu do you place extra shells in there for them to choose between. I have read that they prefer an empty shell -- less work to take over

 

[Guest]

All of my hermits will go after an unsuspecting snail if they get the chance. So far, I haven't really noticed it just isolated to blue legs. Just my observation.

 

[tvu]

From observation of my own snails my red legged hermits seem to be less aggressive than the blue ones and seem to cover more ground.