Red Dwarf Hermit Crab

Hermit crabs need to live inside of a snail shell in order to keep their soft bodies safe. Even with many shells available hermit crabs will occasionally kill snails in order to take their shell. Please ask our staff and we will be happy to supply you with some empty shells.

The Red Dwarf Hermit is is a small to sized hermitcrab that eats a wide variety of algae including some hair algae. As it's name implies you can expect this hermit to have bright red or orange/red legs and is considered to be reef safe, however it is an opportunistic omnivore and will take food where it can find it. It will also eat detritus, algae, fish food, and anything else edible.

The Red Dwarf Hermit will spend the majority of it's time on the rock work picking at algae.