Hermit crabs and Opae sharing food

[Harry]

Here's a good shot of my Opae sharing a spinach leaf with two dwarf hermit crabs. There have been at least four different hermits on that leaf while populated by Opae. They get along fine. Every now and then a hermit may make a very sudden or clumsy move and a few shrimp "popcorn" away. But they come right back. And you can see one of my new Zebra Nerites in the background.

[Harry]

Here's one of the new striped horn nerite snails sharing the spinach leaf.

[BostonJill]

Thanks for sharing these great pictures. So it's okay to put a spinach leaf in the water? Do you remove it after a few hours?

[Harry]

Shrimp love spinach, kale, lettuce, sweet potato, etc. Par-boil for one minute first to soften it up. Leave it in the tank for 24 hours, and they will have eaten all of it. Sometimes there is a stem left, but they usually eat that too.

[pealow]

Wow...those look like some big healthy happy shrimp! You must be doing something right!