Electric Blue Leg Hermit Crabs (Calcinus elegans)
Regular price £8.00
- Electric blue leg hermit crabs (Calcinus elegans)
- Family: Diogenidae
- Care level: Easy
- Temperament: Peaceful
- Reef Compatibility: Reef safe
- Max size: 5.5 cm
- Diet: Omnivore
The electric blue leg hermit crab is one of the most desirable hermit crabs in the reef due to its beautiful bright colors and reef safe status. Altohugh reef safe it's recommended that if you keep any crabs or urchin or other mobile inverts that small corals are fixed down to avoid them being moved.
Blue legs feed on a variety of algae including hair algae, meaty foods and will beneficially consume cyanobacteria also. If no algae is present their diet can be substituted with algae pellets or seaweed sheets.
Hermit crabs live do not grow their own shell, instead they live in unwanted or abandoned snail shells. Spare shells should be provided for hermit crabs as they grow, this helps to avoid fighting over suitable shells within your crab population.
Due to variations in species your item may not be identical to that featured in the image, we do however ensure the species is correct and that the markings and colors are very similar.
Before ordering please familiarise yourself with our alive arrive guarantee and the process for making claims under our guarantee.
We offer an 'Arrive Alive' guarantee on all corals, critters, fish and invertebrates. If they do not arrive alive then subject to these terms and conditions you can request a replacement or refund. We guarantee our livestock will arrive alive, there is no reason why it should arrive any other way due to the care and professional way in which they are packaged with heatpacks, polystyrene boxes and all other necessary precautions considered for the species we are shipping.
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