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caseyc02

Member
ok so why do you spend money on a clean up crew that consists of snail and hermit crabs... when the hermit crbs will knock the snails off the rock and then kill them?
 

caseyc02

Member
i bought 10 hermits and ten turbos... i got 2 snails left... an about 5 empty shells i've picked some out already
 

scopus tang

Active Member
Originally Posted by CaseyC02
http:///forum/post/2617910
i bought 10 hermits and ten turbos... i got 2 snails left... an about 5 empty shells i've picked some out already
Leave the empty shells in the tank. One of the reasons that hermits kill snails is for their shell. Another reason is because they're hungry. Are you feeding your tank at all?
 

lexluethar

Active Member
Hermits will usually just start eating / killing snails if the snails were already on their way 'out the door.' How did you acclimate these guys? What is your salinity? Treat anything with copper?
While it is a fact of life that hermits will eat snails, they usually won't unless they are small (narsiss snails, NOT large turbos) or they are dying.
 

prime311

Active Member
I got some Chaeto yesterday with a brittle star cool right

Well 5 minutes after I spotted him crawling a hermit took him down the bastage.
 

cowfishrule

Active Member
Originally Posted by CaseyC02
http:///forum/post/2617910
i bought 10 hermits and ten turbos... i got 2 snails left... an about 5 empty shells i've picked some out already

Originally Posted by prime311

http:///forum/post/2617968
I got some Chaeto yesterday with a brittle star cool right

Well 5 minutes after I spotted him crawling a hermit took him down the bastage.

what hermits do you have?
this may be your problem.
 

caseyc02

Member
they've been in there for about a month i feed my percs frozen food... a half cube a day and the left over drops to the bottom.. and i was feedin tflakes also... i mean they got food so i dunno what it is... my sg is 1.022... in the process of bringin it up gradually
 

yukon

Member
Yeah those crabs must like that snail meat! I bought a cuc package from this site 2 months ago to add to the few things I had and I've noticed alot of murders have happened in my tank, I feed every other day so maybe there getting hungy. I even had a emarald crab take out my brittle star
 
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