General information The Starry Hermit Crab is a reef safe invertebrate that is easy to maintain. It is red to brown in color with small white spots. It can grow up to 3/4 in. Like any other hermit crab, it also lives in empty mollusk shells and it occasionally changes its shells as it grows…
General information The Green Striped Hermit Crab, like all hermit crabs, also live inside the empty shells of gastropods. Its body is colored dark green or brown with streaks of white or grey. Its legs are also green or brown in color covered with short bristles. It can grow up to 10 cm (4 in)…
General information The Black Sponge Crab is another reef safe invertebrate that is easy to take care of. It is good for the aquarium because it helps propagate soft corals. As its name suggests, it is black in color and it adds algae or sponges to itself to make a camouflage. It hunts for food…
General information Clibanarius vittatus, also known as the thin-stripe hermit crab, has a soft abdomen and lives inside the empty shells of mollusks that protect it. It has small legs called chelipeds that are covered with hair-like structures. Its body is dark green or brown with streaks of white. It can grow up to 10…
General information The Clibanarius tricolor is a hermit crab that has blue legs with red banding and reaches up to 3/4″ (2 centimeters) in size. This species is very popular, especially to aquarium home trades. Its environment inhabits intertidal zones where they feed upon detritus and algae. They are more active during nighttime than daylight hours….
General information The Pom Pom Crab is so named because it carries around a sea anemone in its claws, making it look like pom poms. It can grow up to 0.5 in (13 mm) wide. It is either colored pink, brown, or yellow. Its legs are colored dark purple with bands. It is usually found…
General information The Red Hairy Hermit Crab is a large, semi-aggressive crab. It is bright red in color with small white spots. Its legs are covered with fine hairs and its pincers are large. It can grow to about 15 cm (5.9 in).
General information The popular Orange & Black Hermit Crab or Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab is so named because of its attractive color. Its pincers have white or orange bands and its eyestalks are long that are blue in color. It is small but its left claw is larger than the right claw and it serves…
General information The Dwarf Zebra Hermit Crab is popular because of its unique coloration. Its pincers are dark but it has white or orange stripes making it look like zebra’s skin. It also has long eyestalks that are colored blue with an orange upper half part. Its body is small but its left claw is…
General information The Dwarf Yellow Tip Hermit Crab is one of the most unique species of hermit crabs. Its legs are colored green or black with bright yellow bands. It is also one of the reef-safe animals. It grows up to 1 in and its small size allows it to dig into substrates and small…