Mobile Inverts Forum

Travis · 09-09-2007, 11:51 PM

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vdituri · 09-10-2007, 12:45 AM

Me first! Me first!
There is one thing I'm not 100% clear on.
Are scarlet hermits the small hermits and then are there large mexican red legged hermits or am I confused more than normal?

And is it the general concensus that scarlets are the most reef safe or are there others of equal "docile" (not sure if that is the right word) nature. lol

Kazzy · 10-22-2007, 06:21 PM

I tell them apart by whether they have yellow eye stalks or not. Scarlets have the yellow ones.

framerguy · 10-22-2007, 07:54 PM

As far as the size issue goes, the scarlets reach about 1.5" and red legs reach about 2.5". Their dispositions seem similar and most people seem to agree that the scarlets are the most reefsafe, however, scarlets, red, and blues are all opportunistic feeders and if they can catch something they'll eat it (which is true of most crabs that I can think of) including attacking snails and taking their shells. They will also steal food from corals (ie: shrimp from an elegance, which got all of mine bannished to the refugium), so my fuge is full of these and other criminals who have displeased me by being poopheads. My cleaner shrimps still steal food from the elegance and the trachy but I actually like them. Other criminals include two large serpent stars that got an appetite for sleeping fish, and several bumble bee snails that got an appetite for nassarius snails.

vdituri · 10-24-2007, 12:58 AM

Yowsers man! Hope I never piss you off. I don't wanna go to the sump. lol
You seem to have alot of carnage going on in there.
It's like mad max. lol
Thanks for the reply.

kathywithbirds · 10-24-2007, 01:04 AM

allegedly, according to an LFS, there's this black legged type with white or yellow bands on teh legs that are completely reef safe, even more so than scarlet.

yea or nay on that one, anybody?

lcstorc · 10-24-2007, 07:51 AM

It depends on youe definition of reef safe. If you mean it won't pick on your corals then it is possible. If you mean won't eat your snails etc then I highly doubt it.

kathywithbirds · 10-24-2007, 09:13 AM

yup. according to this one store, (and it's white bands, i just checked mine) they are not carnivores at any point in their lives.

I haven't seen him eating snails but he IS in a new snail shell...

09-09-2007, 11:51 PM	#1 (permalink)
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framerguy Golden Moray Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mount Airy, Ga Posts: 2,920 View Gallery Karma Komment Add yours!	Re: Mobile Inverts Forum As far as the size issue goes, the scarlets reach about 1.5" and red legs reach about 2.5". Their dispositions seem similar and most people seem to agree that the scarlets are the most reefsafe, however, scarlets, red, and blues are all opportunistic feeders and if they can catch something they'll eat it (which is true of most crabs that I can think of) including attacking snails and taking their shells. They will also steal food from corals (ie: shrimp from an elegance, which got all of mine bannished to the refugium), so my fuge is full of these and other criminals who have displeased me by being poopheads. My cleaner shrimps still steal food from the elegance and the trachy but I actually like them. Other criminals include two large serpent stars that got an appetite for sleeping fish, and several bumble bee snails that got an appetite for nassarius snails. __________________ ___________________________________ Greg All time fav quote: "Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy."-Guillaume Apollinaire "Being happy can be as easy as deciding to be!"-Greg Kimsey (framerguy) 75g Main, 55g Fuge w/DSB/+-25#LR, 25g Sump, turboflotor skimmer, 2x250w MH(9hrs/d), 4x65w PC(14h/d), 950gph mag drive/seaswirl return, 100# LR, 3" SB chronicles-akwareum (\___/) This is Bunny. (=O.o=) Copy and paste him into your signature (")__(") to help him gain world domination

10-24-2007, 01:04 AM	#6 (permalink)
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10-24-2007, 09:13 AM	#8 (permalink)
kathywithbirds You talkin ta ME? Join Date: May 2007 Location: Philly area, NJ Posts: 4,922 View Gallery Karma Komment	Re: Mobile Inverts Forum yup. according to this one store, (and it's white bands, i just checked mine) they are not carnivores at any point in their lives. I haven't seen him eating snails but he IS in a new snail shell... __________________ (\__/) (\__/) (@.@) (^.^) (")_(") (< >)

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