hermit crabs

[rtaylors3]

I was wanting some hermit crabs but was worried they would damage my corals or even my snails. Is there any that would be safe to get? I read the scarlet hermit crab will eat slime algae?? Is that possible? Everywhere else said nothing will eat cyano.

[jkrentz2515]

I personally have never witnessed my hermits eating anything but snails that can't flip themselves over.

[Mopar Reefer]

+1

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14615906#post14615906 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by jkrentz2515
I personally have never witnessed my hermits eating anything but snails that can't flip themselves over.

[kraze3]

I have never had a probelm with hermits either. They might walk across some zoas once in a while but dont harm anything.

[eric@tampa]

Stick with red leg hermits-avoid blue legs jmo had too much trouble with the blue legs

[rtaylors3]

any luck with them eating cyano? I guess if they were to cause any trouble they wouldn't be hard to catch

[kraze3]

Ive never seen them eat cyano, but I havent had any in a while now. Ive heard of them occasionally picking GHA off of rocks but not all will.
You should be using a turkey baster to blast the cyano off the sand and use a toothbrush to brush it off the rocks. Try to move your PHs around to eliminate dead spots and you should be able to beat cyano in a couple weeks. How are your nitrates and phosphates?

[rtaylors3]

I such just about all of it out at water changes and I move PH around about once a week. This stuff grown in the flow! I is growing on a rock that I have a kenys tree on and if the flow were any stronger it would be torn off the rock! I have almost undetectable phosphates and nitrates and I use RO water AND i only feed very little every other day. I only have 6 very small fish. I have read that this can be part of the new tank syndrome and it will eventually go away?? i have no other algae (i know cyano is a bacteria).

I basically just wanted some crabs to look at and read about the cyano thing and thought that would be a plus. Is 10 too many? That is how they are sold at Saltwater Fish.

[Ms_Jerk]

I have hermits in my tank (red and blue leg) and both eat algae (nothing more)

[bsmith22]

My hermits just pick at rock all day long. I have both red and blue. They have never bothered anything. If you add a few extra shells for them, they should leave the snails alone too.