Blue Leggs Crabs clam safe?

[Jay]

Are the tiny blue leggd clam safe? I know they are great for eating hair algae and I used cheap arm reactor medea and not enough phoslock and now I have a few small tuffts of hair algae and want to nip it before it gets out of hand.

 

Jay

 

My 2 tangs and Coral Beauty wont touch the hair algae...worthless suckers..just kidding I love my Blond Nasso and regal tangs.:p

[ThePremiumAquarium]

They have never messed with any of my clams and I have hundreds of them in my tank. I would say go for it and get some! They really only will mess with smaller snails as they start to get larger and possibly with each other to try and battle for shells. Excellent little critters in my opinion.

 

Garrett

[reefhut]

Hermits won't mess with clams, go for it! I would cut back on feeding meaty foods and use pellets for awhile. The reason is, the uneaten food rests on the rocks and rots, algae will preveil. So by cutting back on your feedings and feeding pellets will nip the algae in the butt. It will take awhile, but if you attack the problem now, it won't be a huge problem later.

[R-3]

I have about 40 in my 28G and they leave my crocea alone. Later Ryan

[shaywood]

Any idea where to pick up some small crabs cheap?

[defigart]

I never had any problems with blue-leg, zebra, or carribean red hermits with my crocea.

[Jay]

I got mine at seahorse. He is going to get a big shipment of blues and reds next week. He was lw this past week when I was there. Had lots of nice corals though.

 

Jay

[pledosophy]

They are safe with my clams IME. Even with the small hitch hiker mussel ( I think it's a mussel not sure yet, to small).

 

HTH

[180Brandy]

Safe in our 180 tank they seem to be more interested in my brain coral keeping it clean. (rock2)