would hermits eat my turbo snail?

[vince]

i heard that hermits would kill the turbo snails and steal their shells. have anyone had any problems?

 

[angelgirl]

Yes your hermits will eat the snails if they need a bigger shell. You can get empty shells and just put them on your sand for your growing hermits to move to that should help.
Angelgirl

 

[jimi]

Hermits will eat your snails if they need the shell or not. Especially blue legs.

 

[tanggirl123]

hey, i have a blue legged hermit with my tank and i have a bunch of snails and so far one has died and thats cause he flipped over and couldn't get back up!! i guess i've been lucky.
~kelly~

 

[wakesetter]

Yes the hermit crabs will eat snails, I walked in on this happening just yesterday. The hermit had pulled the snail out of the shel and he ate him, I don't think he even took the shell.

 

[fender]

I have never had a snail die from hermit attack. I have had a couple big turbos die from landing on their back and me not catching it.
I don't agree with the 1 per gallon rule - but then I only have 160watts of lighting right now and algae hasn't been a problem, and I feed my tank pretty well. I have 18 blues and only 1 scarlet with about a dozen snails. All have been in the tank together since march.
A couple of the blues are also very large.
Some ppl swear the blues are little terrorists but I have had no probs...
I think the bad press comes from a snail that dies and then the hermits do what they do best - clean up detrius. We see them attacking and assume they were the culprit.
[ August 16, 2001: Message edited by: fender ]

 

[fat_ed]

Unlike jimi, I've had no bad experiences with the blues. After over three months, I have all 20 of the original snails I bought as a part of the SWF clean up crew. In fact, I think the blues are the best cleaners in the tank. I would, however put many spare shells of various shapes and sizes in the tank. The scarlets in particular seemed to appreciate this gesture.

 

[fender]

BTW my scarlet never leaves the rock, ever. The blues do get down in the sand looking for goodies....and clean the mess made by my snowflake.
I agree about the extra shells, mine are always switching.

 

[vince]

i wonder why swf would put such combination as invert package? .. especially sally light foot being agressive toward others sometimes and hermits eating turbo snails.
bah

 

[burnnspy]

It makes money.
I only recommend scarlet hermits and mine come down every day to sift my sand, every creature has its own personality.
BurnNSpy

 

[alianated]

Thats exactly it. Burn is right, every creature has its own personality.
I saw Electric Blue hermits for sale at my LFS. I came here and did a search and everyone here said they were reef safe. I went to the pet store, and a customer there was saying that his was so destructive he had to get rid of it. And then, the LFS owner said that every once in a while, one will come along that will terrorize a reef tank. But its rare. And a customer was agreeing that they never hurt his reef, and he had 4.
So its just luck, as it is, it seems, with a lot of these salt water critters. lol