What's eating my Zoa

Mark1313

Mark1313

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Really there's only 2 things that could be guilty. Maybe 3.

4 tiny zebra hermit.
Peppermint shrimp.
Or a hitchhiker crab who I've never seen yet. Only know he's around because of a molt.

My bet is the hermits. My tank just turned 2 months old. I leave corals on the frag until I'm sure both the coral and I are happy with the placement. I'm thinking the hermits try to pick stuff off the frags and just keep going until there is absolutely nothing left.

Thoughts, ideas?

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Mark1313 said:
Really there's only 2 things that could be guilty. Maybe 3.

4 tiny zebra hermit.
Peppermint shrimp.
Or a hitchhiker crab who I've never seen yet. Only know he's around because of a molt.

My bet is the hermits. My tank just turned 2 months old. I leave corals on the frag until I'm sure both the coral and I are happy with the placement. I'm thinking the hermits try to pick stuff off the frags and just keep going until there is absolutely nothing left.

Thoughts, ideas?

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My guess would me the peppermint shrimp more then anything

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xj_matt said:
My guess would me the peppermint shrimp more then anything

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Makes sense cause I got it for aiptasia and it did its job, all gone. Maybe now it's hungry.
It's why I'm so undecided. I've seen the hermits on a frag, but the pep being guilty seems correct also.

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I had a peppermint shrimp that i caught eating a frogspawn, so I would be watching that peppermint shrimp.
 
Ya in hindsight I think I should have chosen aiptasia x. That peppermint is gonna be a pain to catch if I decide to go the removal direction.

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Actually, catching wasn't to bad. We used plastic tonic bottle fashioned into a trap with a piece of krill.
 
Thx I'll give it a shot.
Thinking if I pull the peppermint (it's job is done)
Pull the 4 zebra hermits and replace with 1 halloween hermit
Find and remove the crab in case it's a gorilla.
Should clear up my problem. Easier said then done though.

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Do you have any of the small astrenia starfish in your tank. I always find them munching on my zoas and have to pick them off. They are a pita.

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