When Hermits get BIG?

[NaCl_H2O]

Just wondering what others do with "Grown Up" Hermit crabs. When they get big enough to occupy dead turbo snail shells :skeezy should I ditch them?

[DeletedAccount]

Find someone with an octopet.....

[Tim Marvin]

Mine end up in the sump.

[technomex]

I have a huge electric orange hermit from samiam that has occupied an empty turbo shell. No problems....yet.

[z28pwr]

My blue hermit crabs eventually killed all the turbo's and took their shells, they still killed them even when they didn't need the shell.

[Ram_Puppy]

electric oranges are cool crabs, they are also (possibly) short lived according to one of my books, their life span is about 2 to 3 years, but i have never seen that anywhere else to confirm it. They are possibly my favorite hermit.

[Ram_Puppy]

One of the reasons I like the dwarf Zebras, I have a few larger than any blue or red leg I have ever seen (granted, I have limited experience) but they have yet to kill a snail for a shell. (course, I have quite a few empty ones from the heat wave for them to choose from.)

[technomex]

I like them alot. I have both E.O. hermits and turbos in the same tank. The hermits have, so far, completely ignored the turbos.

[GaryP]

I think that hermits sometimes get a bad wrap on killing snails. I think that sometimes they are just scavenging dead snails and end up taking their shells afterwards. In either case I prefer the smaller hermits such as the blue legs and small red legs. They seem to be better hair and cyano borwsers. I know that Larry was very happy with the way that the blue legs cleaned up his bryopsis outbreak.

[StephenA]

My Trigger eats them. He also eats the turbos.

[don-n-sa]

Mantis food. 8)

[CD]

I have two monster EO hermits - besides knocking frags off their "perch", they haven't done anything to harm any fish or inverts. The LH hermits we got from Sam are also getting HUGE at a very quick rate...out of all the hermits we got from Sam, only three of the little buggers were caught munching on a coral - they got relocated to our 'fuge at first, but now inhabit the QT tank. Best suggestion I can make is to have plenty of empty shells in your display in varying sizes so when the hermits get ready to upgrade their "house" they have something readily availb. ;)
BTW, our LH hermits are awesome at cleaning!

Wendy