Scarlet Hermit Crab - Fish/Reef safe right?

[mademperor]

Just to make sure, are Scarlet Hermit Crab Reef an fish safe?
When I got my setup they said I should get red or blue leg crabs. I ended up getting blue ones, are the Scarlet Hermit Crabs the red legs?
https://www.saltwaterfish.com/site_11...ot_parent_id=4

 

[renogaw]

scarlets are fine (and preferred) strawberry's are not

 

[jojo_b]

Scarlets may be reef safe, but the red leg hermits that I have currently aren't invert safe. Those things have decimated most of my algae clean up crew. In fact, I'm waiting until they die before I get any more hermits, and when I do, I'll be getting blue legs. But ymmv so...

 

[njbeacher]

Scarlets will get bigger, faster then the blue legs. I bought 2 scarlet and 20 blue leg at the same time. All were the same size to start. 1 year later, the scarlets are easily 4 times as big as the biggest blue leg hermit. They dont seem aggressive towards the others though*.
*Your mileage may vary.