Attacking rics?

[Authentic]

What types of things attack rics.? Vie noticed some of mine which I had left on the bottom of my tank seem to have become food for something in my tank.do crabs eat mushrooms?and if so where to put them to keep them safe?

 

[rogersb]

What makes you think they were eaten? If you don't see half eaten rics I would assume they had blown behind rocks. What is your fish list?

 

[Authentic]

Two clowns and a pseudochromis .but I think it would be one of my cuc.

 

[TampaSnooker]

Clowns like to redecorate their territory. Are the Rics attached or loose? I'm with Roger in thinking they blew away behind the rocks if you didn't see evidence. Emerald crabs and certain shrimps have bothered my Rics in the past. Certain worms might snack on them as well. Hermits - not so much, IME.

 

[rogersb]

Probably clowns or current blew them away. Look behind your rocks. The way I have been successful attaching them is either in a small container with rubble or by sticking a toothpick through them then the toothpick into a hole in a rock. The ric will attach there.

 

[Khemul]

I've had a couple vanish like that. The pattern I've noticed is that if they aren't attached to something bigger then a gravel bit then they risk being blown away or kicked around. In my tank anything that hits the sand risks being buried or dragged deep under the rocks, so all unattached mushrooms now live in the nursery (plastic breeder box) until they are secured to something.

 

[Suboc]

A friend of mine had a Red Mithrax crab eat most of his ricordea and alot of his zoanthids.
We walked in one day and it was in the process of eatting a zoa polyp. After he got rid of that crab every thing made a come back.

 

[TampaSnooker]

I've had the same experience with Mithrax once they get hungry for something more. Rics and Zoas.

Sucks when you get them to rid some zoas of bubble algae...