I found my sand sifting starfish the other day and its legs were freaking nubs! They were all just little stumps. I don't have a harlequin shrimp or anything else that I know would eat it. I was thinking maybe a hungry emerald crab? My goby also has a chunck of his back fin missing. What does this?
Derek
I could have sworn I heard snapping on a few occasions, but I thought it was the heater hitting the glass-retarded roommate plugged in heater when tank was empty and melted the plastic holder-now it is just hanging in a corner)
Well, if you want a list:
2 emerals crabs
hermits, snails(astrea/margarita)
purple tang
sleeper goby
2 O clowns
rbta
porcelain crab
lawnmower blenny
royal gramma
rbta
2 skink cleaner shrimp
I don't think any fish on your list would be suspect. I have had a cleaner shimp pick on a choc. chip starfish in the past. The starfish was on the decline anyway, but the cleaner went to town on it. Could be one or both of yours have a tast for star fish legs...
There are a lot of empty shells, but I attributed that to the the fact most of my snails cannot right them selves if they fall off the glass or a rock(which I see often)
If it is a mantis, is there a way to get it out? Like a trap or something?
Derek
I have a mantis trap that I hope to never use again. Let me know if you are going to the next meeting and I can bring it for you or give it to someone that can get it to you. Don't know if it will work. Mantis are crafty. If you ever see it, it will be worth the effort to take the rock out that it is in...
My Naso tang once killed a serpent star by nipping off its legs. Every time it found the star under its favorite rock it would drag it out by a leg. Eventually the star lost most of its legs and died.
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