I noticed today that something is feeding on my hermit crabs. I found four sets of appendages (claws, legs, etc) laying in the sand bed. The soft tissue is gone.
Livestock include: 2 False Perks, Royal Gamma, Watchman Goby, Sixline Wrasse, and a Powder Brown Tang.
Inverts include: Blue leg hermits, red leg hermits, snails, 2 emerald crabs, 4 peppermint shrimp, one banded coral shrimp.
There is plenty of algae to keep the emerald crabs busy. One I can always find living in a rock hole near the top on my tank. I haven't seen the second one since putting him in the tank a week ago. Both have bodies about the size of a nickle.
Not sure but I think the snail and blue leg hermit population is diminishing too... but can't be sure.
So who do you think is eating the hermits?
Livestock include: 2 False Perks, Royal Gamma, Watchman Goby, Sixline Wrasse, and a Powder Brown Tang.
Inverts include: Blue leg hermits, red leg hermits, snails, 2 emerald crabs, 4 peppermint shrimp, one banded coral shrimp.
There is plenty of algae to keep the emerald crabs busy. One I can always find living in a rock hole near the top on my tank. I haven't seen the second one since putting him in the tank a week ago. Both have bodies about the size of a nickle.
Not sure but I think the snail and blue leg hermit population is diminishing too... but can't be sure.
So who do you think is eating the hermits?
