Blitzburggirl
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I have a 12 gallon tank that I am using for growing out itty bitty frags. In the tank, besides coral, I have a cleaner shrimp, 3 sexy shrimp, nass snails, 1 turbo (god I hate it!!!), one black and white star (name escapes me right now!!) and a few mini brittles that came in with some corals.
I have so many kinds of corals in there. Zoas, yumas, rics, encrusting montis, monti, chalices, candy canes, fungia, a couple orange crush acans, a neat enchino, a couple acros, millis and I can't think what else. Anyway, at one time I had a really neat green pocillipora and a ORA green birdsnest. I both did ok for a long while, and my memory isn't the best, but at one point, I added the 3 sexy shrimp and at one point the pocilli and birdsnest just kind of died off. Everything else was fine. And has continued to thrive. Well except part of one of the encrusting monti's that fell on the acans.... uggg.
This weekend I went to a candy store (awesome LFS) and bought a bunch of frags. Nine total. Acros, milli's a pocilli, couple eyes of chalice, and 2 different encrusting montis. Anyway, one of the bits of rubble had a 1.5 inch green milli on one end and a .5 or smaller inch pocilli on the other end. I looked in the tank towards the end of the evening and found all 3 of my sexies on the pocilli, and all the polyps gone!!! you know, dark dots where they used to be! The milli is fine though, as are all the other frags I bought. This LFS is great- and I didn't notice any distress on the coral- the ones I bought, or anything else in the store for that matter.
My question, do sexy shrimp have a taste for pocillipora, stylopora or birdsnest?
I have so many kinds of corals in there. Zoas, yumas, rics, encrusting montis, monti, chalices, candy canes, fungia, a couple orange crush acans, a neat enchino, a couple acros, millis and I can't think what else. Anyway, at one time I had a really neat green pocillipora and a ORA green birdsnest. I both did ok for a long while, and my memory isn't the best, but at one point, I added the 3 sexy shrimp and at one point the pocilli and birdsnest just kind of died off. Everything else was fine. And has continued to thrive. Well except part of one of the encrusting monti's that fell on the acans.... uggg.
This weekend I went to a candy store (awesome LFS) and bought a bunch of frags. Nine total. Acros, milli's a pocilli, couple eyes of chalice, and 2 different encrusting montis. Anyway, one of the bits of rubble had a 1.5 inch green milli on one end and a .5 or smaller inch pocilli on the other end. I looked in the tank towards the end of the evening and found all 3 of my sexies on the pocilli, and all the polyps gone!!! you know, dark dots where they used to be! The milli is fine though, as are all the other frags I bought. This LFS is great- and I didn't notice any distress on the coral- the ones I bought, or anything else in the store for that matter.
My question, do sexy shrimp have a taste for pocillipora, stylopora or birdsnest?
