Invertebrates

  • Dwarf Red Tip Hermit Crab

    General information The Dwarf Red Tip Hermit Crab is a voracious scavenger. Like its Blue Leg cousin, the Dwarf Red Tip Hermit Crab serves as an ideal member of your marine or reef aquarium’s cleanup crew. This omnivore will scavenge all over your live rock and sand substrate – finding its way into the tightest…

  • Electric Blue Hermit Crab

    General information The Electric Blue Hermit Crab is very attractive due to its electriying blue legs with black bands and its bright orange antennae. Its claws are colored brownish green. Like other hermit crabs, it also lives inside abandoned snail shells. It can grow up to 3/4′ to 1-1/2′ in. It is beneficial to the aquarium…

  • Hermit Crab with Anemone

    General information The hermit crab, Dardanus sp., is very unique because of its symbiotic relationship with the sea anemone, Calliactis polypus. The two have a mutual relationship wherein the crab helps the sea anemone spread out in the wild while the anemone protects the crab through forming a camouflage. However, this crab is aggressive, making…

  • Horseshoe Crab

    General information The Horseshoe Crab is greenish brown to light tan in color. The dorsal part of the body is rounded, and it has a long spike for a tail. The Horseshoe Crab is not a crab, but more closely related to spiders and mites, belonging to a group of animals called chelicerates. Horseshoe Crabs…

  • Scarlet Reef Hermit Crab

    General information Paguristes cadenati is very hardy and requires minimal care in a well-established system. More importantly, however, these small hermit crabs have a voracious appetite for detritus and algae. In fact, they are particularly fond of nuisance algae of the filamentous, hair, and slime varieties, as well as cyanobacteria. Finally, unlike some hermit crabs,…

  • Porcelain Anemone Crab

    General information The Porcelain Crab is common throughout the tropical oceans of the world, and has a flat, round body with two large front claws. They are brown and orange in coloration with bright blue spots. These crabs have a pair of front arms called maxillipeds, which have ends that are feather-like in appearance. They…

  • Sexy Anemone Shrimp

    General information The Sexy Anemone Shrimp is named for its unusual body movements. When walking, Thor amboinensis sways its abdomen back and forth with exotic flair. In addition to this fascinating behavior, the Sexy Anemone Shrimp is also uniquely dressed in a reddish brown body dotted with brilliant white spots. These characteristics make the Sexy…