Electric Blue Halloween Hermit Crab

The electric blue hermit crab is very attractive due to its electriying blue legs with black bands and its bright orange antennae.

Electric blue halloween hermit crab. This tiny crab lives in abandoned snail or triton shells or it may resort to attacking and eating a snail so it can use the shell for its home. Quantity discount applies to all eligible saltwater hermit crabs and shrimp on your order. The halloween hermit crab is a very useful aquarium cleaner that helps maintain a healthy aquarium environment by eating any left over food that may settle on the substrate. This tiny crab lives in abandoned snail shells.

The electric blue hermit crab calcinus elegans also known as the dwarf blue leg hermit or tiny blue leg hermit is a small electric blue legged hermit crab that is an excellent addition to any cleanup crew they are completely reef safe peaceful and easy to care for. It is a scavenger that will eat left over detritus on the substrate and will also eat cyanobacteria and hair algae. This species will spend most of its time scavenging the live rock for algae or seaweed to feed on. The saltwater halloween hermit crab is a peaceful and easy to care for crab that is great in a reef or invertebrate tank.

The blue leg hermit crab clibanarius tricolor is a great addition to a saltwater aquarium because it eats many kinds of algae including red slime algae cyanobacteria. Its claws are colored brownish green. The electric blue leg hermit crab is a valuable addition to an aquarium because it will eat algae including green hair algae and cyanobacteria. Like so many pet store owners looking to make a sale the guy at the reptile store had assured my friends that the crabs needed no special food heat or substrate requirements other than newspaper water and table scraps.

I was fascinated by these crazy colorful crabs who were approximately 10 times the size of my strawberry hermit crabs and had black bodies with brilliant orange legs jack. Their eye stalks are blue as well and their antennae and mouth parts are orange. The electric blue hermit crab is a superb algae eater and will even eat filamentous algae and cyanobacteria. As they grow they will need larger shells to take the place of the shell they outgrew.

Adding further value the halloween hermit crab is known to efficiently eat algae including green hair algae and cyanobacteria. This crab has electrifying blue legs and its antennae stand out with its bright orange color. It can grow up to 3 4 to 1 1 2 in. The electric blue hermit crab calcinus elegans has alternating electric blue and black bands down each leg.

The electric blue hermit crab calcinus elegans originates exclusively from the marshall islands. The electric blue hermit crab a very rare find originates exclusively from the marshall islands. Or it may attack and eat the snail then use the shell for its home. It is very useful in keeping reef aquariums clean and free of undesirable algae.

Both claws are close to being equal size and are brownish green in color.