can someone id this hermit crab?

[mopiko]

hi can someone id this hermit crab? pix as attached.

[VanDeam]

one of my favorite !@

Pagurus bernhardus

or some call

anemones hermit

[mopiko]

will it bite the fish?

[reeftask]

will it bite the fish?

no, they will only bite you.

[mopiko]

haha tiny crab leh. bite i cook black pepper and eat it up hehe

[mopiko]

can we mixed Blue Leg Hermit Crab with the anemone hermi crab that u having now? is it possibel to keep more than 1 hermit crab in a tank?

read that the anemone crab is not friendly

"This Hermit Crab prefers an aquarium with large amounts of stable rock work and dim light. The Hermit Crab is aggressive and makes a poor candidate for a reef or peaceful fish aquarium. It will eat fish, snails, and worms, but also detritus and some algae. As it grows, it will need larger shells, therefore multiple sizes of gastropod shells should be available to it."

hoever when i purchase it was told its friendly to fishes and reef safe.

[VanDeam]

provide enuff shells . for them to switch so they wont fight for shells

if u need can sms me or call me at 93840450 kenny hand u 20 different hermit shells

[reeftask]

can we mixed Blue Leg Hermit Crab with the anemone hermi crab that u having now? is it possibel to keep more than 1 hermit crab in a tank?

read that the anemone crab is not friendly

"This Hermit Crab prefers an aquarium with large amounts of stable rock work and dim light. The Hermit Crab is aggressive and makes a poor candidate for a reef or peaceful fish aquarium. It will eat fish, snails, and worms, but also detritus and some algae. As it grows, it will need larger shells, therefore multiple sizes of gastropod shells should be available to it."

hoever when i purchase it was told its friendly to fishes and reef safe.

some sites said not reef safe. So do you want to gamble? I wont, I place them in my seahorse tank. They wont eat detritus and worms but they will find leftover food at the detritus,... But they cleaned better than snails.

As for the black pepper, I dont think you will waste time to cook a small dish, LOL

[mopiko]

hello

me just keeping live rocks and fish no corals at all. so is it still safe to have them around?

will be getting scarlet and blue leggies hermit from fellow reefer here. will it be safe to keep them together? with sufficent shells of course

[reeftask]

hello

me just keeping live rocks and fish no corals at all.    so is it still safe to have them around?

will be getting scarlet and blue leggies hermit from fellow reefer here. will it be safe to keep them together? with sufficent shells of course

no corals mean safe. Another thing is some likes to eat meat, so snails will be dead. be careful unless you decided not to have snails. Hermits are better cleaner than snails but they cannot climb up side the glass so you have to clean up yourself.

[mopiko]

ya. he slready cleaned up 2 of my snail liao. is scarlet and blue legs safer den this hermit?

i got feather duster, think this crappy fellow trying to attack it. how about with star fish?

[reeftask]

ya. he slready cleaned up 2 of my snail liao. is scarlet and blue legs safer den this hermit?

i got feather duster, think this crappy fellow trying to attack it. how about with star fish?

they are safe with starfish.

red scarlet tends to be a bit safer but some sites said they will eat leftover meats so that means they will eat snails too. Blue leg will eat snails.

[mopiko]

so all hermit not safe! eat snails... snails are helpful to us...

[reeftask]

so all hermit not safe!    eat snails... snails are helpful to us...

yeah but snails dont clean that well as compared to hermits. Even hermits will clean their own shell while snails cant. Anjother good thing is you an paint the shell with your inno design before giving the Hermit. Hemits not 100% will take any shell, I think they prefer certain shells and only will change shells if its too small. The bigger the shell, the heavier load so who will want to carry that unnecessarily?