Ok this is how it happened.....
4 days ago I purchased a new Yellow Watchman Goby, a big feather duster, 1 medium sized sand sifting star, 1 orange Bally star, and bunch of snails and hermits. This was all being added to my 20g High tank which already had 5 hermits, 10 snails, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, and 1 domino damsel . The Perameters where perfect. So any way I am tottaly loving everything. I go to sleep and the next morning I wake to find my sandsifter totally beat up, my first instinct was hermit crab attacks because the white indents on its body wherent very large. But after further examination I noticed that the tip of one arm was completely missing. i was ****ed to say the least. But at that time I was already late for school so i had to go. I got home as fast as i could. I found that an entire leg was now missing and a lot of stringy orange and yellow stuff was hangin out. of course i wanted to get him out but i have nowhere for it to go. So i made my room look like night and came back in like 3 or 4 hrs. with a flashlight. Nothing. So i came back 2 hrs later right before bed and found that the star only had 2 legs left out of 5. I couldnt believe it. So i got on the internet and researched mantis shrimp. Made the inverted bottle trap and put the star fish remains in it as my LFS suggested. woke up and the starfish was dead untouched. so i took it out and went to school. Then after school i had to work so i didnt get home till 8. I found my domino dead with a gaping whole in its underbelly. i took it out and flushed it. after further inspection one of my peps was belly up in the back of the tank but with no apperent injuried. Next i went to the store and bought raw shrimp for bait. put it in and had no luck. next morning my goby was dead also w/ no injury, and so was the other pep. raw shrimp untouched. so i made my room dark again and waited an hr. came in with a flashlight to see a worm like thing stretching out of a whole. it was purple and very very thin only sticking out about 2.5-3 inched. But hid quickly once teh light hit it. So today i did a freshwater dip w/ the rock i saw the worm thingy in. waited for what seemed forever and put it back in the tank cuz nothing happened. Im so frusterated. I NEED HELP!! Thanks ~Jerod
4 days ago I purchased a new Yellow Watchman Goby, a big feather duster, 1 medium sized sand sifting star, 1 orange Bally star, and bunch of snails and hermits. This was all being added to my 20g High tank which already had 5 hermits, 10 snails, 2 Peppermint Shrimp, and 1 domino damsel . The Perameters where perfect. So any way I am tottaly loving everything. I go to sleep and the next morning I wake to find my sandsifter totally beat up, my first instinct was hermit crab attacks because the white indents on its body wherent very large. But after further examination I noticed that the tip of one arm was completely missing. i was ****ed to say the least. But at that time I was already late for school so i had to go. I got home as fast as i could. I found that an entire leg was now missing and a lot of stringy orange and yellow stuff was hangin out. of course i wanted to get him out but i have nowhere for it to go. So i made my room look like night and came back in like 3 or 4 hrs. with a flashlight. Nothing. So i came back 2 hrs later right before bed and found that the star only had 2 legs left out of 5. I couldnt believe it. So i got on the internet and researched mantis shrimp. Made the inverted bottle trap and put the star fish remains in it as my LFS suggested. woke up and the starfish was dead untouched. so i took it out and went to school. Then after school i had to work so i didnt get home till 8. I found my domino dead with a gaping whole in its underbelly. i took it out and flushed it. after further inspection one of my peps was belly up in the back of the tank but with no apperent injuried. Next i went to the store and bought raw shrimp for bait. put it in and had no luck. next morning my goby was dead also w/ no injury, and so was the other pep. raw shrimp untouched. so i made my room dark again and waited an hr. came in with a flashlight to see a worm like thing stretching out of a whole. it was purple and very very thin only sticking out about 2.5-3 inched. But hid quickly once teh light hit it. So today i did a freshwater dip w/ the rock i saw the worm thingy in. waited for what seemed forever and put it back in the tank cuz nothing happened. Im so frusterated. I NEED HELP!! Thanks ~Jerod