Hello, it have been long time since I have been here I am really stumped with the mystery of the disappearance of my crabs where I had about 25 crab mixed of scarlet and common hermit crabs where I have lost about 15 of them in past a month that I have discovered there are about 10 empty shells sitting in the back corner of the tank right behind the LR while there are 5 empty shell sitting on the other side of back corner of the tank behind the LR as well..there are enough room for the crab to crawl through from the side to back of the tank but I don't know what happening ? I do feed my creatures regularly 2 or 3 times per day. The creatures I have are:
Inverts:
-1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
-3 Nassarius Snails
-5 mixture of hermit and scarlet crabs
Fishes:
-1 Lawnmower Blenny
-1 False Perc Clownfish
-1 Clarkii Clownfish
-2 Spotted Cardinal fishes
-4 Blue Reef Chormis fishes
-1 Blue Tang
Corals:
-1 LR full of brown mushrooms (Assorted mushrooms)
-1 Medusa Soft Coral (Sphaerella species)
I have lost:
-2 Nassarius Snails
-4 Orange Cat Eye Snails
The water parameters are:
pH 8.2
Temp ~78 at morning and tops off at ~80 by tank lights out at night
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
I was told by LFS that something in the tank must be eating them but I have been monitoring much more closely in the tanks activity and I can't seem locate anything ? Help ?
Thanks in advance!
Mike
Inverts:
-1 Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
-3 Nassarius Snails
-5 mixture of hermit and scarlet crabs
Fishes:
-1 Lawnmower Blenny
-1 False Perc Clownfish
-1 Clarkii Clownfish
-2 Spotted Cardinal fishes
-4 Blue Reef Chormis fishes
-1 Blue Tang
Corals:
-1 LR full of brown mushrooms (Assorted mushrooms)
-1 Medusa Soft Coral (Sphaerella species)
I have lost:
-2 Nassarius Snails
-4 Orange Cat Eye Snails
The water parameters are:
pH 8.2
Temp ~78 at morning and tops off at ~80 by tank lights out at night
Ammonia 0
Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10
I was told by LFS that something in the tank must be eating them but I have been monitoring much more closely in the tanks activity and I can't seem locate anything ? Help ?
Thanks in advance!
Mike