Hermit crabs died

[bigdogeder]

Hey all I had a half dozen red hermit crabs in my tank three of them fell off of my live rocks upside down and died. Are there Amy other snails or crabs I can use in the tank instead of the hermits to clean up? Thanks in advance as always for the great advice.

 

[Henry405]

so they just dropped dead? or did they fall and end up dead due to falling from their backs? I have hermits fall all the time and it doesn't matter how they land, they just flip right back up

 

[bigdogeder]

They fell on their backs and couldn't flip over. I am afraid I am afraid if I get more the same will happen and was wondering if there were other options

 

[Sqasnatch]

They will crawl right out and flip there shells. They died from another cause

 

[Henry405]

It might had just been bad luck due to the crabs having shells that were a bit too large. You could always do emerald crabs ( scavengers), nassarius snails (cleans sand), turbo snails (algae eaters), nerite snails (scavengers).

If you want shrimps: cleaner shrimps (cleans fish), fire shrimp (cleans and scavenges some meaty stuff)

 

[Hinds04]

That will not kill them. Something else is going on.

 

[bigdogeder]

Thank you. They fell off the back side of my lr and were trapped upside down when I pulled the shells out they were upside down but wedged between the rock and the glass in the back of the tank. I have 2 turbo snails and 3 peppermint shrimp that are doing fine. I think I will give the other snails you mentioned a shot.