Doughnut Coral is Eating Hermits

[kgravity]

So I noticed my Doughnut coral Had a weird lump sticking up in the middle the past couple days. And I just got sent this picture now of I guess what was causing it.

Any issues with Corals eating up blue legs?

 

[kgravity]

I got home and he had just the tip of the shell sticking out of his mouth. i wanted to pull it out but im afraid i could damage something. Should I just wait until he spits out the shell on his own?

 

[kgravity]

Anybody?

 

[Nanobros]

Feed the coral maybe with some brine shrimp or something like that acouple times a week

 

[cougareyes]

I call them meat corals, I love them. I had fish disappearing and low and behold I caught him red handed eating one of my blennies. Any fish that made the mistake of taking a little lounge on him became lunch. I've seen mine regurgitate a chunk of fish I fed it, so my thoughts are he will spit the shell back out; I wouldn't think he could digest that.

 

[kgravity]

So he definitely hasn't been able to digest it, its been probably 5 days, but the crab inside was toast lol. The problem was he rotated the shell some so when he closed up at night it looked like it was going to punch a hole through himself. So I ve been feeding him and hes been eating around it. after feeding him last night though the shell the was sticking out again like in the picture and I managed to pull it out really slowly. Seems fine today.

Thanks for the help

 

[kgravity]

Heres a picture in case anyone was curious

 

[Reeflife916]

Heres a picture in case anyone was curious

That's interesting, I have never kept one but heard many stories of disappearing fish

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[blasterman789]

Had same problem as well. Youd think fish would stay away by instinct.

 

[kgravity]

Right?! Now when my six line starts trying to snatch food out of it I get a little nervous.