My wife has a White Spotted Hermit Crab ( guess who takes care of it) LOL. Its about the size of a computer mouse . We will be upgrading its tank ! She really wants to have a Lion Fish in the house . Would the 2 get along ! The crab is fed good and has never try to eat the Damsels its housed with! Would the 2 get along ? Or could the LionFish sting the crab by accident!
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 6:15 pm
by xrayjeeper83
No help with your question but how about some of pics of the hermit
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:33 pm
by chuckfriedrice
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Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:09 pm
by xrayjeeper83
WOW didnt even know they could get that big
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:14 pm
by chuckfriedrice
Yeah the White-spotted Hermit Crab (Dardanus megistos) can get to like 7 to 8 inches shes about 3 or 4 ! Its actually kinda hard to find shells without spending a fortune on conch shells, lol . Its a cool crab though , got to keep her fed or they lable them as fish killers! The 1 pic shes outta her shell , she ditched it when I moved her into a new tank ( shes bailed when I picke her shell up) ! Took 4 hrs for her to go back in !
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:34 pm
by xrayjeeper83
One more reason for me to get a damn salt tank running
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2011 11:30 pm
by Black Widow
Hahaha I have had 3 of these crabs all of them became puffer lunch O_O, they will be ok with a lionfish. I kept one with a Lionfish and it was fine
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:48 pm
by chuckfriedrice
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Very cool event this morning she molted her skin,then buried it ! and my wife was able to take pictures and video! Uploading the video to youtube as we speak!I will post when done!
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:33 pm
by xrayjeeper83
That is so cool.
I figured it would eat it like my crays do. I hope you pulled it out so it doesnt rot lol. When you do you should let it dry out and leave it somewhere where others will see it and freak out.
I left my crabs old skin on the kitchen sink to freak out friends/family
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 5:34 pm
by xrayjeeper83
Scratch that, just thought about it and the Hermit probably doesnt have a hard exo like my crab does(fw) so my idea wont work
Re: LionFish and Hermit Crab
Posted: Wed Jul 27, 2011 6:05 pm
by chuckfriedrice
Yes After I took the picture of the molt buried I removed it! I already have 1 we've kept and dried out!
Here the YouTube link of the video if you wanna see it !