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04-19-2008, 01:15 PM
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| | Fire Worm
Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: San Bruno, CA Age: 33
Posts: 173
|  Sugesstions for a "safe" cleaner?
Do to losing about $50 in stock to my hermit, he has gone back to the great LFS in the sky (ok, not really, but I wanted to). Since I'm down to only snails and a pair of peppermints (who I caught gettin' busy with crazy shrimp-on-shrimp action the other night) I'm shopping for a new janitor. The hermit was my primary garbage collector and only sand-shifter.
I don't want another hermit, don't want a sea star (if it's going to starve). It's only a 29 gal so not a lot of space. Corals, anemone, couple of worms, 3 fish. Ideas?
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Began 2/3/2008: 29 AGA
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04-19-2008, 01:20 PM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Louisville, KY ( derby town ) Age: 39
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Yes i know of your "plite" here Geeex,
Have a blue leg crab' and he has a taste for turbo snails ( they want the shell )
but hermits, Oh and you can buy the 'RED LEG CRAB" their relatively safe. _________ <B><FONT face="Comic Sans MS">[font="Tahoma"] Got Questions? Need Answers?
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04-19-2008, 02:51 PM
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| | Skunk Shrimp
Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Saskatoon, Sk Age: 21
Posts: 283
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Conches are great! They dont climb (that much) so they wont push any coral around, they'll get into your substrate and they are great detritus and algae eaters! I have 3 in my tank and they clean WAY more than any hermit crab will ever clean.
Evan.
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40g with 10g sump with 40 lbs liverock, 1.5" deep livesand bed.
Fish - halloween hermits, blue leg hermits, left-handed hermits, emerald crabs, assorted snails, chocolate chip star, 3x strawberry conches, tuxedo urchin, electric flame scallop, gold stripe maroon clown, carpenter's flasher wrasse, 6line, yellow tang, yellow watchman goby, white seabae anemone.
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04-22-2008, 07:53 AM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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i agree, queen and fighting conch's are great, just hard as heck to find in my area for some reason
All in all though i use mexican turbo's and astrea snails for the big part of my cleanup crew, for the sand i use nassarius (sp) snails and they do a great job _________ 24G JBJ Nano, 20# Live Sand, 40# Live Rock
Rose BTA, Kenya Tree, Frogspawn, Xenia, bubble coral
Blue/Green Chromis, 6 Line Wrasse, 2x Black & White Percs, Dragon Goby
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04-22-2008, 08:21 AM
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| | Feather Star
Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Manchester UK Age: 24
Posts: 765
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Hermit crabs only normally kill snails to get their shells! If you dont supply them with spare shells to grow into and move around, they will hunt for alternative options! _________ You will never know whats in my tank as i can only type 15 words  | |
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04-22-2008, 08:49 AM
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| | Ritteri Anemone
Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Tulsa, Ok Age: 28
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normally yeah, some are just murderous little bastards though, I have a zebra in my nano that is killing the other hermits for what seems to be sport...
I actually watched him kamikaze dive off the rocks onto a hermit on the sand, flip him over and rip him out of his shell, then just walk off like nothing ever happened | |
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04-23-2008, 10:15 AM
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| | Spanish Shawl Nudibranch
Join Date: Dec 2007
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Originally Posted by Iraf  normally yeah, some are just murderous little bastards though, I have a zebra in my nano that is killing the other hermits for what seems to be sport...
I actually watched him kamikaze dive off the rocks onto a hermit on the sand, flip him over and rip him out of his shell, then just walk off like nothing ever happened | lol im sorry but i can just picture that and it sounds really funny, sounds like an anger black out OR a drive by shelling, one is a blood the other is a crip, step on my grain of sand again, do it!!! | |
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