Attacked Duncan??

[CorbinSawyer]

Hey,

I was away for a few days and I saw this when I came home. My wife was watching the tank and said the duncan was hiding for 2 days.

Currently in there is a skunk cleaner shrimp, neon blue goby, red legged hermit, blue legged hermit, and a few other corals that are pretty far away and look great (hammer, trumpet, favia, brain, three mushrooms, and birdsnest). He was fantastic looking for over a month seen in the first pic...

Could the hermit gotten him?

I'm supposed to get an acan this week but now? Not so sure...

Amm=0
Nitrite=0
Nitrate=~0
Phos=~0-0.25 (on API sooo?)
Calc=450 (salifert)
Alk=11(salifert)
Ph=8.2 (hannah probe)
35 ppt (refractometer)

Tank started in December.
20 G
GFO and Carbon in reactor
Reef Octo nanobox skimmer
LED lighting 3hrs blue/6hrs white/3hrs blue.

Any help?

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[rocksaus]

Not sure if it was crab, but personally (and I'm sure some will say otherwise) I will never have hermits in my tank again, especially the blue leggeds

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[CorbinSawyer]

Interesting...maybe I'll consider a FOWLR tank for the den and move them...anyways, if anybody else wants to weigh in here he is all puffed up after lights on for a bit. It looks like he's re-growing his "tentacles" maybe...I'll try to upload

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[CorbinSawyer]

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[leviburns89]

Definitely something super hungry with the ability to rip tendrils off.

I would say it's a crustacean of sorts.

If you have a low nutrient system, odds are your crabs aren't getting enough to eat, and turned to a coral for food.

Most people don't realize that hermits, and most other crabs eat 100% of the time they are awake, when there isn't ample food, they eat whatever they can.

Scarlets are the only crustacean I will keep in my tank, even shrimp are on the no no list for me. Too much money in corals to risk it.

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[Fish Keeper82]

Not sure if it was crab, but personally (and I'm sure some will say otherwise) I will never have hermits in my tank again, especially the blue leggeds

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What he said. Hermits are the devil.

 

[CorbinSawyer]

Thanks for the input...I'll try to feed them well while I decide what to do

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