Something eating my mushroom corals please help

[Jyetman]

I have a green metallic mushroom rock that started off with 10 mushroom and over a period of a year they slowly disappeared. Each one would be healthy but would shrivel up and disappear in several days. Several months later another one would disappear. I figure something is eating them and recently found a gravel trail from one part of the rock leading right up to a shriveled mushroom. Trying to investigate what it was by scraping the tube structure. Its a thick mucus covered with crushed sand bed coral. Anyone heard of this? I took the rock out and gave it a iodine dip but not sure what else to do.

 

[smtank]

I have heard of Bobbit worms eating corals, kind of like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OR3j6UyBRU

You're going to have to start checking in the middle of the night. If you get some red cellophane and cover the end of your flash light with it you might be able to sneak up on the offender without scaring them off.

 

[Jyetman]

I have heard of Bobbit worms eating corals, kind of like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OR3j6UyBRU

You're going to have to start checking in the middle of the night. If you get some red cellophane and cover the end of your flash light with it you might be able to sneak up on the offender without scaring them off.

That's enough to make me quit this hobby! ehhehehehehehehe

I'll have to try and watch for something like this I did have zoa polyps mysteriously disappear awhile back but seemed to stop. Maybe my coral bandit shrimp intervened.

 

[guidedbyechoes]

better get a gun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3H4J5QDQeA4

 

[RA]

How are your water paramaters? Is the lighting good? Is the coral in a good spot? Too often critters get blamed for eating corals, when in effect they are only eating what is already dead.

 

[Jyetman]

How are your water paramaters? Is the lighting good? Is the coral in a good spot? Too often critters get blamed for eating corals, when in effect they are only eating what is already dead.

Nope not dead all my mushrooms expand and this last one was in the same spot for over a year. It just happened to be its turn to be eaten though since the iodine dip he's still shrunk and present but the second "last one" is opened up. Not to mention I saw a long white worm fall off during the dip and borrowing tunnels on the rock itself. Kind of reminds me of that movie Tremors they sneak up to it's pray by tunneling.

 

[capt.cocktail]

try placing the mushroom rock higher on your rockwork, if you can? possibly out of reach from said tremor , like the movie .

 

[Jyetman]

try placing the mushroom rock higher on your rockwork, if you can? possibly out of reach from said tremor , like the movie .

I took your advice and actually took the entire rock out and chipped off pieces with the remaining mushrooms and relocated to the other side of the tank. Left the remaining rock out to dry I hope this saves them.

 

[CarlosPulga]

I had some mushrooms just fall apart, I still not sure if something was eating them, but I had another rock with different mushrooms and they seem to be doing great.