yellow tang vs. hermit crab

[meinkfr]

Has anyone ever run into a yellow tang eating hermit crabs. After a 2 week quarintine we introduced the tang into our 55 gal tank. He has been in there for two days and two hermits are awol. Is this just purely coincidence?

 

[Anonymous]

Your Hermits are Hermits! You will not see them much at all.

 

[reefann]

I greatly doubt he killed the hermits.
But some weird things have happened in tanks.
JJ
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[Tang fastic]

Hi, I know this response is late, but I wonder if you have any resolution?
My yellow tang and my bird mouth wrasse delight in eating any invertebrates they find. Crabs, shrimp, snails and even urchins! I feed them quite frequently during the day (I'm at home nearly 24/7) and they always appear hungry. If I put bigger meals in it doesn't help, nor does increasing frequency. It appears they get bored, or like the taste!
To give you some idea, I put 50 snails in and by the evening there was 10 empty shells on the sand. A boxer shrimp lasted 2 days, a fire shrimp was introduced and never seen again. 25 hermits in, by the evening 6 empty shells.
Is there anything I can do to stop the greedy buggers??

 

[Anonymous]

FWIW if you expect an answer you might first check the dates of these threads. In this case the last post was like 2003.

doubtful you will get replies from a thread that has not has posts for 7 years.

Just my .02

 

[Anonymous]

FWIW if you expect an answer you might first check the dates of these threads. In this case the last post was like 2003.

doubtful you will get replies from a thread that has not has posts for 7 years.

Just my .02

Instead of worrying about the dates answer the damn question bob.

Bird Wrasse love snails and crabs - that pointy little beak is about perfect for picking them out of their shell. I would just avoid them since he seems to like them - you might get lucky with a skunk cleaner shrimp but I wouldn't personally risk it.

The Wrasse is much more exciting than crabs and snails anyway...

 

[Anonymous]

FWIW if you expect an answer you might first check the dates of these threads. In this case the last post was like 2003.

doubtful you will get replies from a thread that has not has posts for 7 years.

Just my .02

Instead of worrying about the dates answer the damn question bob.

Bird Wrasse love snails and crabs - that pointy little beak is about perfect for picking them out of their shell. I would just avoid them since he seems to like them - you might get lucky with a skunk cleaner shrimp but I wouldn't personally risk it.

The Wrasse is much more exciting than crabs and snails anyway...

sorry.

I also did pm him with an answer also.

 

[Anonymous]

You are a good guy - Bob.