Rcunning8
Premium member
Hey Guys,
So I am at a loss for what is going on so I thought I would post here. Last night I came out to look at the tank with the lights off like I always do and I saw a huge chunk of my mother of pearl just lying on the sanded, this thing is a half inch of girth branch. I was at a loss for what could have broken it and just figured it was myself moving stuff around and accidentally knocked a chunk off like I always do. However this is a thick chunk something that would take a great deal of effort even intentionally fragging it with bone cutters. Anyways I didn't think much about it and I went to bed.
This morning I come out to drop food into the tank to feed my fish and I see two more much skinnier smaller branches of RC Cloud9 laying on the sandbed. I looked to see what part of the colony they came from and there is no way I could have knocked these branches off, they were deep in the colony and protected on all sides by rock and other acros...
I would post pics but it would be pointless, it just looks like someone is coming in while I'm sleeping and fragging my colonies because the branches are knocked clean off the colony. The frags that have been found this way look nice and have great polyp extension and no bite marks.
I thought maybe either one of three of my large fish might have gone after the across even though they are all reef safe. They are a large nano tang, sargassum trigger and purple tang. Other fish are just gobies, clowns, wrasses and bartlett anthias, too small and too reef safe to have caused this kind of damage.
What do you guys think? I thought maybe hobbit worm but Im telling you there is just no way I missed a hobbit worm after all this time there are just not enough places to hide and I constantly have eyes on that tank with lights both off and on...
Thanks for reading
Ryan
So I am at a loss for what is going on so I thought I would post here. Last night I came out to look at the tank with the lights off like I always do and I saw a huge chunk of my mother of pearl just lying on the sanded, this thing is a half inch of girth branch. I was at a loss for what could have broken it and just figured it was myself moving stuff around and accidentally knocked a chunk off like I always do. However this is a thick chunk something that would take a great deal of effort even intentionally fragging it with bone cutters. Anyways I didn't think much about it and I went to bed.
This morning I come out to drop food into the tank to feed my fish and I see two more much skinnier smaller branches of RC Cloud9 laying on the sandbed. I looked to see what part of the colony they came from and there is no way I could have knocked these branches off, they were deep in the colony and protected on all sides by rock and other acros...
I would post pics but it would be pointless, it just looks like someone is coming in while I'm sleeping and fragging my colonies because the branches are knocked clean off the colony. The frags that have been found this way look nice and have great polyp extension and no bite marks.
I thought maybe either one of three of my large fish might have gone after the across even though they are all reef safe. They are a large nano tang, sargassum trigger and purple tang. Other fish are just gobies, clowns, wrasses and bartlett anthias, too small and too reef safe to have caused this kind of damage.
What do you guys think? I thought maybe hobbit worm but Im telling you there is just no way I missed a hobbit worm after all this time there are just not enough places to hide and I constantly have eyes on that tank with lights both off and on...
Thanks for reading
Ryan
