Something eating blasto

sailfish2

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Something i believe something is nibbling on my blasto’s the small edges of a few are pulled back and starting to see the skeleton.

I have fed them twice in the week or two I have had them and they love it. The color looks ok to good.

I took a look during the night and saw copepods I believe little hunch back critters. I set a bristle worm trap last night and moved them to a new spot. I also caught some red leg crabs going after them after they had eaten. What is the most likely bad guy or is it something else. What should I do?

I have two tanks I can move it to a more established reef tank if water parm could cause this dkh 8/9 cal 380/390 (nitra 4) it is in with lots of other corals that are doing great even some old sps. The tank is recovering from some medication problems and is why it has nitrate. I also have some Acan’s that are doing good. They are under 150 mh on the out skirts .

If I move it to another tank they will be under 250 watt MH 10,000 this I fear would be to much most of my LPS can’t take it.

Any help would be great
 
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any help please i looking for ideas here.
just tested nitra and must be less than 5 because not registering on test. I am out of more accurate test could be 0 could be 4.
sera test and there is sps with color and polyps out.

Tanks be up for 7 months had a medication problem that caused nitra problem recently.

Has anybody else had red leg crabs after these. At night or after feeding blasto


It does not appear to be recession b/c it is not even around the blasto and only on some. what does an unhappy one look like

He is open up to light but some of the ends look pulled back a little like they were eaten on.

Any ideas
 
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