Coral being eaten?

[ReefPrincess007]

I’ve had this tank for 4 years with very few problems and I’ve never seen this before anywhere. This particular coral has been in the tank since day 1.
36 G reef tank one clown fish. Water is in good balance. A few notes:
1) found a good sized hitchhiker crab 2) could hurricane power outage stress (3 days) be showing now? I had bubblers and ran filters on the generator for 6 hours per day.
Suggestions on what would cause this. Thank you!

 

[coil1002]

Water parameters are all good? Ca and Alk ? How fast did this happen was it overnight? I have never seen this before either

 

[ReefPrincess007]

Yes. Parameters are all fine. Maybe not overnight but within a day or 2. Crazy?!

 

[DSC reef]

The hitchhiker crab would have me concerned. I've never seen that before. #reefsquad?

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

The hitchhiker crab would have me concerned. I've never seen that before. #reefsquad?

+1

 

[jsker]

When in doubt, get it out;) That look like major eating on the stems. Do you have a picture of the crab?

 

[Katrina71]

Looks like my fungia after one "dinner date" with a gorilla crab.

 

[DSC reef]

Most likely gonna have to frag that coral at the part of the base where it's been chewed. Try to get the crab out and get a pic for an ID

 

[Lovemyreef2015]

If you can i would remove the coral and put it in a bucket before you try to remove the crab so it can't Escape in the tank.

 

[ReefPrincess007]

Thank you all. Crab is out, coral fragged. We’ll see how it goes!

 

[ReefPrincess007]

 

[bellasdad0911]

That doesn’t look reef safe to me at all

 

[coil1002]

I have a gorilla crab and an emerald crab that live in my sump. The gorilla was a hitchhiker I found and the emerald went rouge and chewed on my frog spawn. The fleshy part not the skeleton I did not think crabs ate calcium carbonate. Good that you got it out. that thing looks nasty.

 

[ReefPrincess007]

Who knows if that’s what it is? I’ll sacrifice a nasty crab to see. Lol. Hope this fixes it.