which hermits? (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

Which hermit crabs do you all keep in your reefs? and why or why not?

I have a couple red leg hermits spread between my 2 tanks.
Just because i put them in loooong time ago and never took them out.
I just threw a couple scarlet hermits in my seahorse tank and a red leg hermit almost immediatley tried yanking it out of its shell.

Which snails do you keep? I have a few Nas and 1 or 2 turbo or astreas.

 

[Guest]

I think I have a pretty good cross section of crabs and snails in between both my tank. I have red leg, blue leg, scarlet, and mithrax crabs. I have Turbos, Ceriths, Nassarius, and a generous population of Stomatella Varia. I see crabs fight from time to time, and an empty snail shell shows up occasionally. I guess I have enough of everybody that I don't miss 'em when their gone. They keep the place clean, so I cannot complain. 8)

I have a red serpent star that I don't see for weeks on end, unless I start moving rocks to find him for the kids. Kids love starfish!

 

[Guest]

I love starfish too, but they don't love my 20 gallon tank.
I had a sandsifter that was in my 55 for a year, within a month of being in my 20, it died.
I dropped in 2 blue linkias, they vanished for at least a month.
This weekend when I was moving all the rocks out of the tank, I found what was left of them.

Not sure what the problem is. Shrimp and seahorses do fine in the tank.
I was told bristleworms may be killing them, is that possible?

 

[pernelf]

Is there anything else in there other than shrimp and sea horses?

 

[Guest]

A percula clown, green brain, couple red leg hermits, the shrimp in the tank is a CBS.

 

[AggieBrandon]

I may be mistaken but I think the blue linkia's need a larger and well established tank with lots of live rock. I think they feed off food that is in the cracks and crevices of the live rock.

Brandon

 

[Guest]

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