Hermit crab is now inside my shell with zoanthids on it!

alzika · #1 09/19/2007, 07:57 PM

I got some zoos from a friend, and he gave them to me attached to an empty snail shell.

I checked this morning and my zoanthids were walking around! One of my blue legged hermits decided to go into the shell.

What should I, or can I, do about this?

amike5 · #2 09/19/2007, 08:05 PM

Leave him be, nothing cooler than some zoos walking around :-)

mr_o98 · #3 09/19/2007, 08:14 PM

Do you have a pic?

althemean · #4 09/19/2007, 08:43 PM

I had a hermit do the same thing about 3 months ago. It got tired of that shell and no one else has touched it since. It just sits on the sand growing zoa's

capn_hylinur · #5 09/19/2007, 09:20 PM

I have a small sea urchin that loves to fetch small rubble in the detrius and bring it up to me so I can remove it--great cleaning system. Its even found a rubber suction cub and the plastic guard from a power head , behind the reef and brought it up to the surface.

Joe LoPresti · #6 09/19/2007, 10:20 PM

I had the same thing happen with a hermit of mine. I bought an empty shell with a beautiful little blue spotted red mushroom attached to it. I woke up one morning and it had vanished. I thought it had died, then later that day I saw it moving along the back of the tank!!!!!!
He dumped it after about a week or two, maybe it was too heavy for him to lug around!!!! It was kinda funny to watch though....