what is eatting my zoas?

[moulton712]

this is for my second tank, more like a bigger grow out tank with fish.

something has been eating my purple zoas and my green zoas, but leave orange zoas alone also have 4 different kinds of palys. i have torches, hammers various sps.

i know they arent melting away they are being picked off one by one.

so fish/inverts include
yellow tang
domino damsel
blue damsel
6 line wrasse
2 emerald crabs
2 skunk shrimp
2 snails (name escapes me)

 

[Jpugh73]

My guess would be the emerald crab. I had to take mine out he was eating my gsp

 

[MikeandNicole]

Emerald crabs would be no 1 suspect, followed by the tang.

 

[slgcmg]

Do you have asterinas? Tiny white/gray starfish

 

[living_waters]

i have to disagree on the emerald crab everyone always blames them when i first started to keep emeralds i always thought they were eating my zoas but they really just eat the crud on/around them....

 

[reefwiser]

Have you watched the tank after the lights go off. Use a Red led flashlight an check out the tank after the lights have been off for a couple of hours. All kinds of little guys come out at night.

 

[moulton712]

I don't have any asterinas. There is not much in this tank, it's purpose is for a grow out. I used to think emerald crabs before I actually started watching them a couple years back. I'm really thinking damsels or the tang is picking at the plugs too aggressively.

 

[fishncwill]

ive also had problems with emerald crabs (just one crab) he ate all of my fish and then i told my lfs that i purchased it from and they took it back and it ate all of there emerald crabs lol

 

[Tangnerd]

ive also had problems with emerald crabs (just one crab) he ate all of my fish and then i told my lfs that i purchased it from and they took it back and it ate all of there emerald crabs lol

Whoa that's one mean emerald crab. Lol

 

[moulton712]

Nice crab story