Hermit crabs and Opae sharing food

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Hermit crabs and Opae sharing food

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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.
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Here's one of the new striped horn nerite snails sharing the spinach leaf.
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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?
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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.
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Re: Hermit crabs and Opae sharing food

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