Beware of snails from Murex ( Muricidae ) family. Tonight has been my second time seeing it suffocate a Clibanarius striolatus to death with its slime and perhaps it sucked the protein or liquid meat from the hermit crab ( no wonder ... mollusks like octopuses and cuttlefishes also eat Crustacean ).
You may feed any carnivorous sea snails with other snails ( such as Nerites & Turbos - and after the predator snail finishes its meal the shell will be very clean & good for hermit crabs ).
Rock Snail Eats M H C :-(
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Mokulele_Hawai'i
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Rock Snail Eats M H C :-(
Hermit crab lover since 1981
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Founder of "Blueberry land hermit crab" - common name for Coenobita purpureus, and "Zebra Sunset land hermit crab" for a new subspecies of Coenobita violascens
Re: Rock Snail Eats M H C :-(
thats horrible D: imagine someone accidentally putting one in their tank with their hermit crabs (is that how you ended up seeing that?)
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Re: Rock Snail Eats M H C :-(
I had a freshwater snail trap and eat kuhli loaches before. Snails are always seen as these cute slow stupid things, but they can be an amazing predator as well.
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