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Twice this has happened now. The first time it was one of my acan's, which happened to grow most of it's flesh back after a few weeks. I'm quite PO'd this time because whatever it is decided to eat my red echino. Last night I remember checking everything before lights out and everything was fine. This morning before lights on, I see that some small rocks that I don't secure have toppled over into the sand. I say, "hmmm, that's weird" and I walk away to brush my teeth. Then I come back to right the rocks and I notice the red echino isn't where I saw it last night. That's when I spot something white by one of my larger rocks. It was dragged about 6-8 inches from where it was last night and most of the flesh was devoured. I moved it to the other side of the tank, where hopefully it won't be bothered, but I'm not sure this coral will make a comeback like my acan did.

I saw the other day that I have another rock crab. I don't know where it's been all this time, but could it do something like that? Anybody know what could have done this?

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Do you have a complete stocking list of fish and inverts?

-Formerly known as the Ferretfish

2 occ clowns
1 rainfordi goby
1 clown goby

some astrea snails
some blue leg hermits
(I don't know exactly how many of these I have about half a ddozen of each?)

I have a yellowhead jawfish in the 'fuge.

That's all that I've intentionally put into my tank other than corals. And like I said, I saw a rock crab the other day.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Try watching the tank at night when the lights are off. Use a red flashlight. There might be a hitchhiker in one of your rocks. Be ready to try to catch it.

Dan


Dan

Yeah, I'm guessin' I'll have to do that. I'll have to find something red to filter the light, I don't think I have anything like that on hand. I hope it's two random freak accidents though.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Walmart sells flashlights with a red filter on them......normally found in the fishing section, used for snaggin night crawlers at night

Thanks, Maybe I'll snag some salty-type, night crawling, son's of coral eaters..

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

I'm going to guess it's a crab.



Dan

Now it's managed to grab one of my acanthastrea frags. It didn't eat it, but it dragged it behind the rocks. I had to move most of my rockwork to find it. The only damage seems to be from it getting scraped on the rocks.

Stakeout tonight. *shakes fish*

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

Well I found one crab, it wasn't even the one I saw earlier though. He was actually eating a bristle worm, so I thought about leaving him in there, that's when I remembered what I was doing and caught him and threw him in what I'm now calling the crab pit. I'm wondering if they will attack each other or not, but IMO let the best crab win.

Anywho...the search goes on.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients

What kind of crab is it? Other then micro hermits, you really don't want any crabs in your tank.



Dan

It was a small rock crab. I don't know exactly what it is though. I got him out of the main display and into a sectioned of part of my sump, the crab pit.

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Critical Fertilator: The Micromanager of Macronutrients