Ahh!!! Bad sally!

[Kewlworm]

I saw my sally light foot snacking on my one and only polyp of green mushroom today. I saw slime coming out from the wound.
I though sally light foot is reef safe. I put pellets every night tonight for the snails, hermits, shrimp, and the crab. Did it snack on the shroom because it can't find anything else? Or it likes mushroom? Help!

Thanks!
Gary

 

[ek9vboi]

Sorry to hear about that. I have no crabs for that reason, currently thinking about no hermits too.

 

[bawla47]

yea, most crabs even though they are "reef safe" will cause you problems somewhere down the road.

porcelain, blue legs, and scarletts are the only ones that really behave themselves.

 

[Kewlworm]

I am going to give sally another chance. She's outta my tank if she doesn't behave....maybe I will put her into my fuge. I have nothing there but rocks and algae.

 

[Sk8r]

Sally will do very nicely in your fuge. Do you know Sally can grow the size of a dinner plate?

Note: according to some, shellfish molt requires iodine. Certainly one thing that could prompt a creature to forage outside its ordinary food sources would be a nutritional shortage. Try adding some Kent Reef Essentials or Coral Vite, either of which I believe has a small dose of iodine, and see if that assists a molt...

One more step toward dinner-plate size...

 

[Kewlworm]

Dinner plate! That's huge! In another thought...hmm...crab...yummy

I am dosing iodide 2 times a week w/ half dose, but I don't have the test kit yet so I don't want to put to much in.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Dactyl]

i typically find blue legs in turtle grass and sand beds. you can find sally lightfoots around corals.