blue legs?

[WRASSER]

Are blue legs good or bad for a tank? If they are good, how many gallons per hermit? :?

 

[Len]

Hey wrasser

Any hermits are shifty and not fully trustworthy IME. The small blue legged are generally considered reef safe, but they will attack small inverts like snails when they have the chance. And usually, the biggest, buffest hermit kills all the smaller ones!

 

[WRASSER]

Do they assist in keeping the tank cleaned, such as detris, extra food, dead things and anything else they get their claws on?

 

[Anonymous]

Yea.

Hermits will eat anything they want to. With the exception of what I like to call tank dust, they just stir that around. I like the blue knuckle/elctric blue (not sure what their called anymore) and scarlets.

 

[Anonymous]

IMO the true scarlet hermits are a much better choice than blue legs for reef tanks... just make sure they are really scarlets, because there are some 'red' hermits that are monsters.

 

[WRASSER]

I know what you mean, i was snorkling in west palm beach and found a huge hermit crab in a counch shell. a counch shell that would by in a store, HUGE. it had pinchers the size of medium lobsters. it would not fit in my 150 gal. tank.

 

[ricky1414]

I used to have 10 blue legged hermits. Now I only have 1 really huge one- he killed off the rest. You could see them fighting at night once the lights turned off. :?

 

[mattstewart]

i found that the scarlet reef hermits are safer also. the blue guys killed alot of nassarius snails for they're shells even though i had extras in the tank. jerks.

 

[Sugar Magnolia]

I've come to the same conclusion about blue legs. Lazy, good for nothing snail eaters. Don't bother with them. I prefer the scarlet reef hermits as well. Very peaceful and industrious critters.

 

[flanders]

I've come to the same conclusion about blue legs. Lazy, good for nothing snail eaters

yea .. these guys make it tough to keep my snail population up and dont do anything but attacke each other...

cute though

 

[Anonymous]

funny post...i disagreed with it when i first read it last week. Didnt post and glad I didnt that my blue legs are "perfect angels". Never saw them fight or anything in all the time ive had them (sorund 6 months for these guys). Last night, I watched 2 of them gang up on a 3rd and kill it.
They didnt even take the shell!
My scarlets i still stand by as perfect angels SO FAR. And my zebras are HUGE, but very docile as well, except very clutzy

 

[WRASSER]

I too think too many are bad. I put about 75 - 100 hermits in and they raped my live rock clean. Now im going to have to give them away to my friends so none of them starve 8O