How many hermits?

[Furin]

Hey everyone. :)

I was just wondering... I love hermits xD I had lots before but they all died over a period of about a year. (I had about 10) I put most of the blame to my Arrow Head crab but anyway... Im wanting some more.

I was just wondering what the limit would be? Id love to have loads and I mean loads xD Ive got a 53 gallon tank with a tang, rabbit fish, cleaner shrimp and a pink urchin. Nothing that would harm them this time.

Thanks!

[d j]

hi just been looking in my invert book and it says about one hermit crab to 10 gls of water but best to ask macca of reef criters send him a pm :p

[chinapattern]

I have read all sorts of stocking levels. Personally, in my 35 gallon I have six dwarf red tips and one unidentified hermit. Great little critters and cheap from James or Chris at MT.

Jenny

[moorish]

everybody has different ideas of stocking levels i would go for about 15.derek

[mousehunter22]

I was told 1 per gallon (dunno if thats right or not) but in my tank ive got about 30 hermits and 20ish snails and mines 77 gallon.....HTH LEE

[Macca]

To be honest a 200 gallon setup with little liverock would not hold 1 per gallon successfully over a long period of time unless you were feeding this setup. They would be not much NATURAL food unless the water had excess nitrates / phosphates encouraging algae growths which you would normally not want.

If you have a 200 gallon setup with loads of live rock, plenty of fish which in return will produce excess nutrients from poo and feeding then you could safely have a load of clean up crew in there as long as your skimmer and water parameters are in check. Remember critters add bioload the same as fish.

Every setup is different!

If you are feeding your system (fish) then you can certainly CAN have more clean up crew than a low nutrient system (SPS ONLY) IMHO.

Start of lightly ( 1 per 3 gallon) and if you want/need add more at a later date after you tank has went through all algae cycles.

James