Cleaner shrimp eating frogspawn?!

[Smithrz]

Hey folks,

I recently added a nice 2 headed green frogspawn frag to my tank (5 days ago), and today I woke up to one of its heads totally retracted and dying. This evening I saw a bunch of stuff floating around the tank, so went to investigate and caught my cleaner shrimp going to town on the coral (see video).



Is this normal? Is it because the head has died that it’s doing it, or do
You think it was the culprit of the death? Will it likely go after all similar LPS?? (I have 2 Candy canes, and a Galaxea as well, plus some softies). I wanted to add a hammer and torch at some stage.

Thanks.

 

[Macbalacano]

It is highly unlikely it killed your frogspawn. What is much more likely is that it was eating its dead/decaying flesh.

 

[Smithrz]

I hope so. I have no idea what caused it to recede; parameters are all good, and all other corals are looking healthy. Only change I made I can attribute is that I started dosing All for reef, but it’s only one head which receded… if it was the dosing that caused it, would it not affect both heads? (And/or other corals).