Blue Leg Hermit

Hermit crabs are unique among higher crustaceans like shrimp crabs or crayfish because they generally utilize snail shells as portable shelters for protection because their body is soft and fragile. They are best housed in tanks with plenty of live rock and a sandy substrate. The blue leg hermit crab is found in the southern atlantic southern gulf of mexico and caribbean.

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They are excellent scavengers and tank cleaners that can help control algae and detritus and aerate sandy substrate.

Blue leg hermit. The blue leg hermit crabs also known as tricolor hermits or dwarf blue legs are tiny powerhouses and used extensively in the marine aquarium hobby for control of nuisance algae including hair algae diatoms and cyanobacteria. The blue leg hermit crab clibanarius tricolor is a small marine invertebrate heavily exploited by the ornamental pet industry. They are excellent scavengers and tank cleaners that can help control algae and detritus and aerate sandy substrate.

The blue leg hermit crab nbsp clibanarius tricolor features characteristic blue legs poking out of their shell. In case we don t have a lot of md to lg blue legs we will send a some extra blue legs along to make up for the smaller sizes. The blue leg hermit crab clibanarius tricolor features characteristic blue legs poking out of their shell.

They are best housed in tanks with plenty of live rock and a sandy substrate. Blue leg hermit crabs clibanarius tricolor are the most popular algae grazing hermit that we sell. Our blue leg hermit crabs are a nice variety of sizes but we like to sell the larger ones that live in shells that are a 0 5 to 0 75 of an inch long.

The blue leg hermit crab is reef safe peaceful and requires no care making it a risk.