I have been having coral disappearances lately. Something has feasted on half of the skin on my new candy cane stalk, and also feasted on a few of my new eagle eye zoo's. I have my suspisions but no proof. Here are a list of know people of interest. Clown fish; clown goby; hector's goby; and a mandarin. 2 pepermint shrimp; a camel back shrimp, emerald crab blue, red, and green leg hermits, and hodge podge of snails. The only individuals who have even slightly shown interest in the corals have been the shrimp. Most notably the camel shrimp. Am I crazy? I though shrimp were peaceful fun loving guys? Help please anyone I cant stand to loose any more money on coral. FYI the leather, star polyp, xenia and sps coral have all been left alone.
i would put my money on the camel back shrimp. i was sold one once as a pepperment shrimp and it devoured my yellop polloped zoos.
Clown gobies are bad at degrading acros( I believe, but could be wrong) and other types of corals as they continuously like to perch on top of them. He probably is not eating zoanthids though.
As far as zoo's go...its the camels! I bet my dollar on that! Acros, I agree could possibly be the gobies.
Maybe we have found the evil doer. The clown goby is MIA. The zoo's were eaten yesterday, and last night he did not participate in the nightly feeding as he normally would have. Today there is no sign of him and he is one of the more active fish. Perhaps the toxins in the zoo's were too much for him? I will continue to watch the camel back though. Oddly enough only one of zoo colonies was hit the other is untouched.
Little update. The dirty camel was our coral eater after all. Caught him red clawed this morning. Luckily he was not smart enough to get past the ol' water bottle trap. He was promptly return to the LFS, were some new zoo's were discounted and a nice strawberry pseudochromis. Thanks for the help of this guys.
