Will a red leg hermit eat a turbo snail?

[Guy]

I recently added a few turbo snails to my tank and one red legged hermit. I am down to 2 snails and 4 have gone to the great tank in the sky over the past 3 weeks. They appear to be healthy and the only thing that is remotely a predator in the tank is the red legged hermit.

 

There is enough growth on my rocks for them to eat and I orginally planned to add more, but not until I figure out why they are dieing.

 

The shells appear to be empty when I check. it doesn't seem like they just died and are still in the shell.

 

Thanks

guy

[Dave ESPI]

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snails are on the menu if sick or dead. OR if the crab wants the shell fer a trailer park he is setting up.

[NaNO ReeFiN]

What are your water parameters? Are you acclimating them correctly...?

[Guy]

Sorry I wasn't more specific.

 

I know that blue leg hermits etc will eat snails, but I thought red leg hermits were algae eaters, not omnivorous.

 

 

Guy

[printerdown01]

Red legged hermits, like their blue legged and zebra counter parts, are omnivorious... However, I'm assuming that your red leg is really small and your hermit is really big. I highly doubt that you hermit is the culpret. Three questions: 1) How old is your tank? 2) What are your parameters? 3) How big is your tank? ...ok, and one side question: how long does it take for them to die (are we talking like 2 days or weeks here...)?

[Guy]

The tanks is a 29 gallon set up about 3 months. I used all cured rock from my 55 gallon.

 

The paramaters are as follows:

SG 1.024

PH 8.3

Temp 78-80

Ammonia O

Nitrates 10

Cacium 420

DKH 8

 

The first died about a week after being in the tank and the others were about a week apart. So the fourth one died about a month after being in the tank. Maybe there isn't enough for them to eat, I usually see them on the glass rather than the rock.

 

Guy