L.I. Sound hermit crabs???

[Manny]

While collecting glass shrimp for my cuttlefish in the long island sound, I picked up a few hermit crabs. I've gotton a bunch of nassarius snails but today I got some hermits! They have a black shell and white legs.

anybody have experience with them? I'm not putting then in my reef but just curious what they would do if I did?

 

[Deanos]

You'd accelerate their metabolism (higher temps) hastening their death.

 

[Josh]

While collecting glass shrimp for my cuttlefish

How many can you get? How big are they? This was always a problem when I had cephalopods, the only place I knew of was New World with the african glass shrimps.

 

[Manny]

after a week soak, there is around 6-15 2" glass shrimp and a bunch of snails, crabs, gobies, and this week..... hermits

I only use a tiny bit of bait so.... I'll try more

I dropped 2 it my ceph tank....I'll see what happens.

 

[Manny]

How many can you get? How big are they?

summertime..... hundreds/week @ 1-2" (pepermint shrimp size)

 

[Josh]

Let me know if your cuttlefish eats them.

 

[cb747]

I threw a bunch of LI sound hermits in my tank last year and there still cruising around. Same with the snails.

 

[phk36]

a local store by me suffolk county fish and reef sells glass shrimp 10 for a 1

 

[Manny]

Let me know if your cuttlefish eats them.

it hasn't touched any hermits yet, there have been a couple scarlets with him for a while now.

 

[Manny]

I threw a bunch of LI sound hermits in my tank last year and there still cruising around. Same with the snails.

are they in a reef or fowlr?

 

[lfsmarineguy]

I collected a few LI hermits about a year ago and I never put them in my tank since they appeared too aggressive and thought they might get too big and end up harrassing my fish and maybe knocking everything over. Just my .02 but I'm sure there are also different types of hermits "endemic" to certain parts of the island.

 

[Chiefmcfuz]

Garp?

 

[Manny]

a local store by me suffolk county fish and reef sells glass shrimp 10 for a 1

wow, not a bad price
I work on the water so checking my DIY traps once a week is no big deal:thumbs:


lfsmarineguy, are you on the atlantic or sound side of LI? these guys also look too aggresive so I won't put them in the reef but I like their white legs so I'm keeping a couple in my other tanks.

 

[Craig]

ever find any starfish in your traps?

 

[cb747]

The LI Sound hermits are in my reef which is all softies. I dont see any aggression fromthem but they are very hyper compared to blue legs and scarlets.

 

[NYReef]

Don't forget the sound is brackish water, its not pure ocean water and has a lower SG. Creatures living it may not be able to handle our water at a higher SG.

 

[Manny]

cb, good to know

craig, not in the traps but there are many stars in the sound. We usually see them in the fall when we're derigging all our stuff. The ones that come up in the gear are around 5"-6" big

 

[Craig]

any of them good to use as harlequin food?

 

[Manny]

I wouldn't

 

[e.muehlbauer]

There are 2 kinds of hermits in LI Sound. The little ones are hyper as anything, and in my experience are reef safe...they even eat cyano...however, as someone pointed out earlier, reef salinity is higher than LI Sound salinity...so they don't last long in a reef setup...as cuttlefish food, they should be fine, but in a reef they won't last more than a few weeks. Even in my brackish local tank they don't last long.....up to a few months, a year at most. The other LI Sound hermit is the flat-clawed, and they get very large...and would surely wreak havoc in a reef. I can't keep them in my local tank because they are too big for a 10 gal tank. Take care, Eric