Hi Brad,

What do you mean by "in the middle of setting up"? First day? First month?
"In the middle" of cycling? Need more input!

Hermit crabs will not hurt the fauna in your DSB, but you do need to "seed" with
LS from someone else's tank, or from the LFS's display / refugium.

Marc


Brad Irwin wrote:

I am in the middle of setting up a new tank and am using a DSB. I just
went out and bought some bule leg and red leg hermits and a brittle
star to stir up the sand a little. The hermits seem to be eating the
organisms in the sand is this a bad thing, are they eating the
organisms?

Brad

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