Reef Safe Hermit Crabs – Saltwater (Sea Water, NSW) Aquarium

Reef Safe Hermit Crabs in  Natural Seawater Aquariums (Saltwater, Sea water, NSW)

Hermit crab species that thrive in reef tanks consume an almost exclusively algal and detritus diet. They also spend their days crawling across the rocks and substrate of your natural seawater aquarium (Saltwater, Sea water, NSW). Due to their size, they won’t disturb the items in your tank.

• Halloween Hermit Crabs are bright orange with red bands on their bodies and legs. They grow to about 1 1/2 inches in length. They consume all sorts of algae, which includes red slime algae.
• The Electric Blue Hermit Crab displays bright blue legs with black banding and orange antennae. Its claws are roughly uniform in size and colour, and it consumes toxic algae with red slime.
• Dwarf Blue Leg Hermit Crabs grow up to be close to 1 inch, and they typically eat any algae type, which includes the algae species of red slime.
• Scarlet Reef Hermit Crabs have red legs and yellow eyes, growing up to approximately 1 1/2 inches in size.
• The Dwarf Yellow Tip Hermit Crab is one of the smaller varieties (1 inch in size), making it easier to get into all the nooks and crannies in a reef tank.
• Zebra Hermit Crab is a unique one because of its dwarfed size. In the wild, hermit crabs like this can be found inside the reefs, hiding under rocks during the day and picking up food at night. The left claw is enlarged on the dwarf zebra hermit crab, and that is why it is often called the left-handed hermit crab.
• Red Tip Hermit Crab is a unique one because of its dwarfed size and eats all sorts of algae, which also includes red slime algae, and that can cause it to sift the sand in the tank.
• Electric Orange Hermit Crab is found only in Hawaii. It has bright blue eyes along with bright orange legs, which is where it gets its name from. It can grow to be 2 inches and tends to eat sand, leftover food, algae, and various kinds of detritus.