Missing hermit?

[deputydawg88]

I have four red legged hermits which are all no bigger than a cm, however one of them seems to have gone missing. There had been a translucent skin but I can't seem to find an empty shell. Could it be a case of the hermit is just hiding until his skin hardens up again? I also have a couple of babylonia snails but neither of them seems to have moved since before the hermit disappeared.

 

[Elricsfate]

You'll want to put a few empty shells in the tank. Crabs molt so they can grow. If he is getting bigger, he will need a bigger shell.

You would not find an empty shell, as he wouldn't be walking around without one.

 

[scooter31707]

Just curious, if any, what fish are in the tank?

 

[deputydawg88]

Just a bicolour blenny currently but I only added him on Saturday so he's only just started coming out of his den and exploring proper today I think.

 

[scooter31707]

Just curious, if any, what fish are in the tank?

Ok, that rules out of it being eaten. It may just be hiding really good. I know some of mines do not come out until the light go out.

 

[mcgyvr]

Good riddance... hermits are annoying bullies IMO and just eat all your snails,etc...

I'm 100% snail only CUC going forward..
My hermits will be flushed when my replacement snail only CUC gets here..

 

[BigDave]

We have 1 hermit that my 6 year old daughter 'had to have'... his name is Crabby.

Every few days it's, "all hands on deck", because Crabby can't be found. The wife and I then have to spend the next 10 minutes searching the tank to make sure Crabby is ok.

It's increasingly harder to find Crabby now that he's bumped up in shell size and his shell is the same as the dozen or so snails in the tank.

 

[jml1149]

I 100% subscribe to the snail only CUC. How many times I've come home and a frag is dislodged, or something is turned over...

Never again.

 

[deputydawg88]

I have read that a snail only CUC is the most 'peaceful' option, however the wife has been complaining the tank lacks colour and, well, movement... So in the end I got a few hermits to compliment the snails I've got. She was most disappointed when I came home with snails not once but twice.

She's not even all that keen on the bicolour blenny because he perches on his porch outside his hole and seems to have a habit of doing some house cleaning whenever she goes over to look at him.

 

[nanosteve309]

I 100% subscribe to the snail only CUC. How many times I've come home and a frag is dislodged, or something is turned over...

Never again.

+1 on that

 

[deleau]

Snails can be just as disruptive as crabs...

I've had a 100% snail CUC for the past two years but am in the process of changing over to hermits and non snails for a change of pace.

 

[Goatonfly]

My scarlet legged hermit never comes out of the rocks. I'm lucky to see it once a week.