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Jessmoment
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Want to set up a holding tank for to many hermit crabs inmy10 gallon. Can I use the purple gravel that use to be infreshwater or can i only use sand???

Jess
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Are they freshwater hermit crabs?

If so that doesn't really belong here, but there's no problem with using gravel. We use gravel in all the hermit crab displays at the place I work at. Except of course, all the marine hermits are in sandy reef tanks.

HTH a bit.

-Ferret

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish
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go 4 sand
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Jessmoment
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NO!! there salt water hermit crabs--and yayi decided to use sand and live rock in it!1

Also got a nicelighting system...maybe put oneclown intherewho knowsfor now only aholdingtankforto many hermits
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