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Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:52 pm
by Petoj87
Well i have 2 young green spotted puffers that are growing up right now they are in a freshwater tank but ill soon add aquarium salt to make it brackish..
So my idea is to slowly go from freshwater to a marine tank, are there any hermit crab that would fit this??
Or they are strictly marine?
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:54 pm
by LongGrain
aquarium salt will not make a brackish tank, you have to use marine salt.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:04 pm
by Pufferpunk
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:07 pm
by Petoj87
LongGrain wrote:aquarium salt will not make a brackish tank, you have to use marine salt.
Sorry meant marine salt
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:10 pm
by Pufferpunk
Crabs = food.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:49 pm
by Petoj87
Pufferpunk wrote:Crabs = food.
I read some where that if you put lots and lots of snail shells in the tank and a hermit the puffer would get confused and give up on trying to eat it, is that totally wrong?
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:52 pm
by Pufferpunk
I wrote that, before the puffers finally ate the hermit.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 5:57 pm
by Petoj87
Oh im sorry, i guess then ill give up on the hermit crab idea
thanks for the info!
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:00 pm
by wagner7123
I've had 3 hermits and 1 snail for the last several months. My GSP just likes to knock them off the rocks from time to time, but never even tries to nip at them, I say that since hermits are pretty cheap drop a couple in and if they get eaten then it was just a snack for the fish and if not you get some new pets.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:16 am
by Petoj87
Back to the original question then, can they survive a freshwater to marine transformation?
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:20 am
by bertie 83
Marine only I'm afraid
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:58 pm
by wagner7123
I had a fiddler crab that survived the transition. He died about a month after I reached marine conditions, I think it was because I didn't provide a place for him out of the water. I think the fiddler is the only one that can survive the salinity swing, but again you need to give it some land or it won't live too long. Also, my puffer took one of his legs when I first got him but never bothered him after that.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:15 pm
by localchili
Pufferpunk wrote:I wrote that, before the puffers finally ate the hermit.
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:08 pm
by goldielocke76
I wish Yoshi would hurry up and eat the hermit that I have. The hermit has now killed the other hermit, two turbos and 3 zebra nerites >< he needs to be food....
Re: Hermit crab and GSP
Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 10:45 pm
by sgtmyers88