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Murderous Six-line?
I just came home to find two of my tiny hermits dead! Bits of there bodies are scattered everywhere. And my six-line has a lumpy stomach. He's the only fish in my 10 gallon. I'm pretty sure there isn't a mantis in there because the shells are still whole. Uggg, I'm mad. I only had 6 hermits now I need to go get 2 more. Should I get rid of him? Or wait and see if I catch him in the act? I have never heard of six-lines eating hermits.
-Chris-
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Id wait to catch him in the act.
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Six-lines are beautiful but they can be aggressive. I have lost countless hermits in my 24 gal nano but always chalked it up to the Coral Banded Shrimp (the one in my 120g has two hermit shells next to his "lair"). My six-line spends his time cruising all over the tank and has never bothered his piscine tank-mates
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I once had a six line and everyone I talk to said they are harmless and it ate all 6 of my peppermint and scarlet shrimps in less than a month one by one they disappeared!
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I watched my sixline whack a hermit. He is an otherwise model citizen in my tank though. I was dumb enough to put a hermit small enough for him to eat so it was my own fault lol.
It was the smallest Blue Leg in a group I purchased. Ripped it out of the shell the second the lil guy landed in the rockwork haha. |
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1 1/2" sixline killed 3 leopard wrasses twice his size.
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keep the sixline, ditch the hermits and replace them with good snails like cerith, trochus, Astrea, or maybe a mexican turbo. Hermits can be iffy with corals anyways.
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I love my hermits....they can be pretty funny at times. So I wouldn't want to get rid of them.
I should just replace him with a striped goby. There cute, cheap and more appropriate for the size of the tank. -Chris-
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If you do a google search you'll find a number of tales of six lines eating hermits, snails, and shrimp. Cool fish, but definitely a carnivore.
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