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Blue-Legged Hermit Crab

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Hey Bro, this is a good link for identifying crabs & hermit crabs. You can check whether your crabs are reef-safe. ;)

Crabs & Hermit Crabs

fishtalk1517: Got to make sure your corals & rocks are stacked properly. These guys are quite tiny, so toppling corals/rocks may be quite a feat for them. :P

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Hey Bro, this is a good link for identifying crabs & hermit crabs. You can check whether your crabs are reef-safe. ;)

Crabs & Hermit Crabs

fishtalk1517: Got to make sure your corals & rocks are stacked properly. These guys are quite tiny, so toppling corals/rocks may be quite a feat for them. :P

:o My crabby quite big.

Anyway if topple .Give me a chance to spend time on my favourite pastime... :evil:

RESCAPE :lol:

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HI all, I recently acquired a blue-legged hermit crab and another red-legged one.. Heard they are a good cleanup crew.

Just want to know if they are reefsafe.

Please share your opinions. Now it's in a quarrantine box. :thanks:

Mine dun really cleanup anything. Dun clean algae either...

He only kill my tube worm....

Equipment:

30G Corner Tank with 10G Sump, 2 x 24W artinic T5, 1 x 24W 10K, 1x 24W 20K, 3" Grade 0 sand & Live rocks, Activated Carbon, Bio-home, 2 x Seio M620, Hailea 1/2HP Chiller, Redsea Pro Skimmer

Live Stock:

Turbo Snail x 1, Green Mandarin Dragonet X 2, Blue Tang X 2, True percular x 2, 1 x Algae Bleenie, Clarke clown x 2

Reef:

1 x 2" Blue maxima, Red/Brown/Purple Mushroom (Discosoma), Pink Ricordea yuma, A little colony Brown/Green common Zoanthus, Red/Pink/Green US Zoanthus, Eagle-eye Zoathus, 14 Branch Goniopora Pandoraensis, 1 Starburst Polyps, 3 + 2 Branch Frogspawn, 4 Blasto, palythoa, Cheato

RIPs (Since June 2005):

1. Sabae clown (KO by Clarke clown) 2. 1 branch melted frogspawn 4 branch 3. Golden maxima (Ripe the base off rock by me) 4. Algae Bleenie x 2 (Starvation) 5. Blue Maxima x 1, 2 x Maxima, 1 x frogspawn, rics (Overtemp...)

Old 30G Corner Tank.

Restarted 30G Corner Tank.

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In my opinion and my research, the blue-legged hermit crab is reef-safe, while the red-legged ones will tend to attacka nd eat up snails for their shell, sometimes for fun (just in case they need the shell). :D

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Mine dun really cleanup anything. Dun clean algae either...

He only kill my tube worm....

You may have gotten a Common Hermit Crab, which is not reef-safe. They are known to eat tube-worms.

For general comparison between the red species of hermit crabs, the red hermit crabs with hairy legs are not reef-safe, whereas the red ones with no hairy legs are generally reef-safe. ;)

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For general comparison between the red species of hermit crabs, the red hermit crabs with hairy legs are not reef-safe, whereas the red ones with no hairy legs are generally reef-safe. ;)

i have hairy legs too.. so, i'm not reef-safe too?? :lol:

Let us work together to preserve the world for our children to inherit by being responsible to our surroundings. Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, bubbles and memories.

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The uncle from rb quoted me 25 bucks for an electric blue-leg hermit

Picture here

Electric blue hermit

Are you sure it's the same one? Those were on sale earlier this year for only $6-$8.

Always something more important than fish.

http://reefbuilders.com/2012/03/08/sps-pico-reef/

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25 Bucks??!!!

Think u've been scammed if u bought it.

At PR its only sold for 4 hehe :lol:

I have about 4 of this little fellows, and they are rather hard working too!

My tank got no sight of hairy algae ;) , however think they eat alot of coraline algae too, coz i dont have much :erm:

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25 Bucks??!!!

Think u've been scammed if u bought it.

At PR its only sold for 4 hehe :lol:

I have about 4 of this little fellows, and they are rather hard working too!

My tank got no sight of hairy algae ;) , however think they eat alot of coraline algae too, coz i dont have much :erm:

No i didnt bought it..

Hmm PR has them...MAybe i shld go check it out...

THks :lol:

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