Cvlnurse
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Awesome good to know! Thank you for the information! This site is awesome. People are so helpful and friendly.
Is getting one clown “bad”?
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Awesome good to know! Thank you for the information! This site is awesome. People are so helpful and friendly.
norfolkgarden
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Sorry, I should have added that the different types of hermit crabs will always need empty slightly larger shells than what they have now available as they molt and get larger.
Based on 4 years of observation.
Blue leg hermit crabs like dwarf cerith snail shells. (Willl kill the live snails for the shells if no empty ones available)
Someone once told me that blue legs eat red legs so I never bothered buying regular red legs.
Dwarf zebra hermit crabs like margarita snail shells.
Scarlet hermit crabs like nassarius snail shells. And some other similar shape...
The "Halloween" electric orange and black and the electric blue and black hermit crabs like a flattened elongated shell similar to a cone snail shell or conch.
Absolutely nothing seems to like turban, trochus, astraea or similar shaped shells.
Never had a hermit crab big enough to use a small turbo snail shell.
We stick with the hermit crabs I listed.
Someone once told me any large hermit crab noticeably "furry" wasn't likely to be reef safe.
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Based on 4 years of observation.
Blue leg hermit crabs like dwarf cerith snail shells. (Willl kill the live snails for the shells if no empty ones available)
Someone once told me that blue legs eat red legs so I never bothered buying regular red legs.
Dwarf zebra hermit crabs like margarita snail shells.
Scarlet hermit crabs like nassarius snail shells. And some other similar shape...
The "Halloween" electric orange and black and the electric blue and black hermit crabs like a flattened elongated shell similar to a cone snail shell or conch.
Absolutely nothing seems to like turban, trochus, astraea or similar shaped shells.
Never had a hermit crab big enough to use a small turbo snail shell.
We stick with the hermit crabs I listed.
Someone once told me any large hermit crab noticeably "furry" wasn't likely to be reef safe.
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Pat24601
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It sounds like my original post on the snail topic was pretty wrong.
I’ve always had crabs and I figured they were eating my snails, but I didn’t realize they were probably the main thing reducing my snail population.
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