I am thinking about getting some zebra hermits, does anyone have them and if so what are you thoughts on them, thanks?
zebra hermits??
- Thread starter reefking
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sorry no advice on these hermits BUT i have three marine fish shop`s local that i use & one of them stock these hermits six for £10 so i also would like some advice because they seem very cheap for there size.....
if you do run the gamble please make a new thread to see how they went..
if you do run the gamble please make a new thread to see how they went..
same as most hermits eat algae and will evict a snail for its shell when it needs to. i have 20 of them, never harmed anything else besides those unlucky snail.
Just saw this thread. I, too, would like to know. That is great news about the zebras as just yesterday I bought a "left handed" zebra hermit. Is this the same as what you are talking about. He has a huge left club/claw. Just bought the one. I thought they looked really neat. Hope he's fairly reef safe. So far he's been on a rock all by himself doing his thing.
Thx, Frank
Thx, Frank
nccoastal said:
I didn't know that Zebra's or hc's booted snails from their shells. Is this common? I just lost two turbos and one of my hc's moved into it's shell!
Any ideas?
hermit crabs blue red zebra all compete 4 shell`s & seen as crabs put up a fight 4 there shell your turbo snails are a very easy target sorry this is very common all hermits love a new shell
sapgranth25 said:
Well, at least that explains why my snails were dying. My water quality is great (even with the snail sitting dead in the tank, my quality only modified a little). Any suggestions on what I can do to prevent this from happening again. The snails are 3 bucks and the crabs are only 99 cents. I don't want to buy more snails jsut to have them killed off.
Let me know
Thanks.
i know snails are a really strong & good part of the cleaning crew but to be honest just scrap the snails & have a crab cleaning crew in my eyes crabs are best hands down..........
try remove dead snails a.s.a.p cos they will make your water quailty down but keep the shells for your hermits....
sorry my spelling is pooh
try remove dead snails a.s.a.p cos they will make your water quailty down but keep the shells for your hermits....
sorry my spelling is pooh
Certain hermits are less lethal than others. Scarlet reef hermits are the more docile and less likely to shell jack the snails if given good empty shells to move into. The red legged and blue legs are equally good. All will clean up your tank. Though if I had my druthers, I wouldn't have added hermits at all and just stuck with snails......