Violent Hermit Crabs!

I'm sure it's not a HUGE deal but my blue legged hermit crabs have been eating my snails as of late. Anyone know why this maybe be happening? I've been looking into purchasing a CuC from blue zoo aquatics but the one I'm looking at will add 44 hermit crabs to my tank and I don't want them to be eating all my snails.

 

theyy are likely looking for a new shell with a meal to go. get some shells for them, ones they can grow into when the get to big for the old one.

 

Put plenty of empty shells in the tank and you'll see a big reduction of this. Much of time they do this for the shell, not the snack.

 

So I should be leaving the empty shells of the dead snails in the tank then?

 

absolutely agree on adding some empty shells, you can get them from www.reefcleaners.org for cheap & get more snails while you're there, John @ reefcleaners is the absolute best place to get a CUC from, you cannot go wrong ordering from him!

& yes leave the empty shells

 

Provide empty shells and FEED them! LOL

 

thay want a shell by god there going to get it ..... by the way i found thay wont touch shells you get from the lfs untull you boil them for an animal that eats poop thay shure are picky

 

I did not know this. I wonder why? Guess I'll have to boil the next set of empty shells I get.

 

i think im the only person that stays away from hermits. i think they are the devil. very opportunistic. like he said, if they see a shell and they want it, they will have to problem evicting the snail that it belongs to. plus there is a snail for everything that hermit can do.

 

+1 on the "looking for a bigger home" fact. Mine did exactly the same and added some empty shells (my LFS gives them away for free). I didn't know about the boiling though... and that may explain why they were empty for so long.

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