red or blue leg hermits?

[glinton]

What is the difference between a red and a blue hermit crab? I am buying a clean up crew soon and I really don't know the difference between the two, except that the red leg hermits are more expensive. Why?
Should I get a mix of the two?

 

[azonic]

red legs are more efficient cleaners then the blue-legs, which is why they cost more. If your just starting a new tank, I would recommend using NO hermits. Use all snails...get cerith snails for the glass...and nassarious snails for the sand. The clean just as well as hermits, and they wont kill other snails to steal their shells.

 

[azonic]

maybe its the other way around...cerith for glass, and nassarious for sand...cant remember, but those are the two types to get.

 

[glinton]

So what do you use to clean the sand?

 

[azonic]

Either cerith or nassarious clean the sand...the other of the two clean the glass.. not sure which does which...

 

[glinton]

Whoops...
Scratch that last post. I wasn't paying attention!!