Hermit crab ate another nass snail : (

[Shawaiz_106]

Well, my hermit just ate my nass snail. This is prob like the 3rd snail he's eaten. I've had him for like 2 years now and he has gotten pretty big. Kinda hesitant to add more snails. I was thinking about adding atrea snails btw

 

[Shawaiz_106]

Would my hermit hunt any snail I add or was this maybe because there wasn't enough food ??

 

[nothing_fancy]

This may be completely anecdotal but I have found that throwing some Piscine pellet food in daily regardless of what else I'm feeding keeps all of my inverts from eating each other. I don't think I've had any hermits go after Nass snails but other snails yes prior to using the pellets. You've also got a blue leg hermit there and you might want to let him live in a sump or fuge if its getting big and get red legs instead.

 

[Bucs20fan]

Hazard of having hermits. They do a good job with what they do, but not even astreas are safe, I have one of the exact species you have and he occupies a very large astrea shell. Just replace snails every 4-6 months.

 

[Atherial]

I just buy more snails. As far as I can tell my hermits enjoy having lots of options for shells.

 

[bushdoc]

Get some empty snail shells of various sizes. Hermit crabs need to change houses every now and then, like most of us.