Is this a good invert list?

hermitkrab

hermitkrab

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Right now I have about 15 turbos, about 5 cerith snails, about 15 scarelt hermits, one queen conch, one peppermint shrimp, one skunk cleaner shrimp, one monkey shrimp, and 2-4 nassarius snails. For some reasons even though with decent water qualities my sarlets keep showing up pulled out of there shell and dead and are later ripped open and eaten by their tankmates. I've lost about 1/2 of my scarlets in several months and now I am down to about 15 (no more than that, and I'm sure I don't have a mantis). Would the following be a good add on list?
-10 turbo snails
-10 cerith snails
-10 nassarius snails
-10 scarlet hermit crabs
-1 skunk cleaner shrimp
-maybe 1 more queen conch and pepermint shrimp
What do you think? Too much? I have 90lb. of ls and 75 lb. of lr in a 40g tank. My tank has been up before December. Well thanks for all future help.
 
bkbkid

bkbkid

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Add to that a 2 peppermint shrimp, 1 or 2 emerald crabs, and 2 mexican turbo snails they're great, also cleaner shrimp are cool!
I found out that stick with scarlet hermits because the others tend to be aggressive towards them. I don't know if you knew this but hermit crabs do molt, so you could just be seeing that.
 
hermitkrab

hermitkrab

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I know that hermits molt I'm just sure these ones aren't because they don't hide, they stay in the open and move and they are always this color. Also I'm still unsure what the big red one is. Oh ya and I forgot to list that I already have 3 emerald crabs and one is huge (twice or more the size of the others. Oh and wouldn't 40+ snails and then two more HUGE mexican turbo snails be a little much?
 
mystangt

mystangt

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Hermit crabs do out grow their shells. Do you have a variety of empty shells in your tank for them to take to when they leave thier small shell? If not they maybe leaving their small shell and getting eaten in the process of searching for a new shell. I had that problem. So now I keep 25 empty shells in my tank for them.
Good Luck,
MYSTANGT
 
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