Blue leg crab ate my zoos!!!!

[MichaelFreedman]

Can't believe it. First it took out a nasarius snail for it's new home, then it picked off my first 6 zoo polyps. Is this normal?

Mike

 

[fanaglethebagle]

Did it actuallyrip off the polyps or was he just picking crap out of them?

 

[NateHanson]

Is this a little tiny blue-leg hermit, sold as clean-up crew (smaller than a pea usually)? Or one of those golf-ball-sized electric blue hermit crabs? The latter are not generally considered reef-safe. I'm not sure whether they eat zoas or not, but you probably don't want these big oportunistic predators in your tank.

 

[RayD]

One of my original Blue Legged Hermit crab from the clean up crew I bought over two years ago grew up to be one of those giant Electric Blues. He eventually took out a Turbo Snail and occupied its shell.

I haven't seen him eat any corals but he constantly is knocking things over he's so big.

 

[jovreef]

Blue legs will eat stuff off dieing zoa's or desease'd ones ... Were the zoa's open and healthy, no discolored stalks funky spots or grey or green color?

 

[swreef103]

i was gonna say are you sure they weren't dying already cause i've seen'em eat the ones with rtn