Where did my Blue Legs go?

kyarnkid

Member
I added 10 Astrea Snails and 10 Blue Legs Hermit crabs a week on Thursday. Well I can still count my 10 snails but, I can only see about half of my hermit crabs. Where did they go? I can see some of them in little holes in my rock, I guess there sleeping but, the some of them are missing.
I have places in my tank where they can hide, but I have scoped out almost all of them. Maybe there dead under the rocks? Maybe my snails ate them? I bought them for about a dollar a piece but, I don't want them to die. The others that I see seem full of life and happy. So what do you all think?
Also I see some of my snails laying on the sand bed in the morning on there backs. I always turn them over and they get back to eating. Why are they falling off, are they weak.
Also my water quality is good and my nitrates are at zero or barely above, so they shouldn't be weak.
Thanks
 
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diatom

Guest
Kid~
You probably just missed them, they can be sneaky devils...that asinde they will kill each other as well as the snails. Just the way they are.
 
I've experienced the crabs killing the snails for a better-fitting shell, but never the other way around. All my blue-legged hermits are quite active so i think that they...yeah...chocked. sorry :(
 
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