First Casualty

[jenkins2212]

Came back from douglasville today and something has ate two legs off and killed one of my pepps!!!!!!! I guess i should have brung them out to flyingarmy:unsure: I dont know what would have done it? Everything in my tank has been in for awhile now. Could it be because they werent fed for two days?


Travis-

 

[jenkins2212]

well my hermits just had a good meal. I dont even think the pepp was completly dead before the crabs were all over it:doh:

 

[wolfie]

You mean pepment shirmp?

If so then it could have just molt and look like something kill it. Give it a day or 2 and you will it again

 

[linda lee]

jenkins2212;70037 wrote: well my hermits just had a good meal. I dont even think the pepp was completly dead before the crabs were all over it:doh:

I noticed 2 hermit crabs struggling in my tank a little while ago. One had abandoned its nearby shell and was in the process of evicting the other from its home. I ran to get some extra shells to drop a few down to the pair of crabs. When I got back to the tank, the intruder was just sliding into his new home and the other was clinging to the shell. As I was just about to drop shells into the tank, my six-line wrasse darted in, bit the homeless hermit in half and took off with his prize.

Had no clue a wrasse would do that, but I saw it happen. My fish are regularly fed, so I know he wasn't starving. He just saw an opportunity for a tasty treat and grabbed it.

So... hermits might get a pep, but something else gets the hermie.

Seems like a lot of violence in our little reefs, but I guess that would be the balance of nature in the wild.

 

[jenkins2212]

no this was actually one of the pepps. Someone had taken two of his legs so he was trying to crawl on the others but then just gave up i guess and the hermits went in for an easy kill!

 

[reefreaper]

What fish do you have in your tank? Pseudochromis, Hawkfish, and several Wrasses will eat shrimp and crabs on occasion.

 

[jenkins2212]

Two clowns, a rainsford, and a sixline. But they have all been in the tank from the beginning. I guess everyone got a free meal today:boo:

 

[reefreaper]

That sixline is probably the culprit. Oh well, that's the price we pay for pretty fish.

 

[linda lee]

I have 3 peppermint shrimp, a cleaner shrimp, 3 emerald crabs and several hermits/snails. My six-line wrasse has never shown any interest until he saw that bare-naked hermit crab today.

 

[reefreaper]

Yeah, I would think the six-line would be safe but out of everything you listed it's the only one I can see causing the problem. Maybe someone else has a better idea?