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Blue Legged Murderers.

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anabolic_1

Hello All,
Got a deal on 50 snails via Ebay, there were delivered about 3 days after I bought them, drop them in my tank after acclimating them and they all survived. An hour later I went to check to see how they were doing and in the front of my tank there were 3 blue legged hermits, each one had a snail turned over and was eating it, they got relagated to the QT, and as I find more BLH they will be gone as well, over the past 4 years I have added at least 200 snails to my tank, I wondered why I rarely see them, I am feeding the hermits. I will stick to the scarlet hermits from now on and not quibble about the cost.
Have agreat week.
Mike.
 
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BORECKI

:( The bitter cost of experience :(
Lesson learned; Our tiny replications of marine biotopes with only a few gallons of H2O compared with the trillions out in the open leave no room for error. Gotta do your home work first.
Boris.
 
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Nanodan

Ok every hermit MUST kill snails, its the only way to accomidate the need for a shell when they outgrow their curent shell. I throw handfuls of differant sized empty shells into all my tanks and seriouly mabey lost 4 snails ever to a powerhead, and I have a 2 1/2" wide Electic Blue from Marshall Islands about 15 blues and 1 scarlet. Dan
 
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anabolic_1

Dan,
My substrate consists of nothing but empty shells so there should be no reason for the hermits to kill the snails for their shells, there are least a few hundred "hermit crab accomodations" for them to be had at will. I even saw one of my hermits sporting a nice shiny bumble bee snail shell.
Mike.
 
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