So today I literally sat and watched as my emerald crab destroyed about 1/8 of a new acro I got a few days ago.
This wasn’t merely the crab scraping off dead tissue either. This acro had great polyp extension and seemed quite happy. The crab had crushed the skeleton to the point there was an abrupt cliff on both tips of the frag. Needless to say the emerald is in timeout now.
I did some extremely brief digging and couldn’t find too many cases. Just decided to post in case someone else has some random chunks out coral missing and no other culprit was thought of. Fun stuff!
This wasn’t merely the crab scraping off dead tissue either. This acro had great polyp extension and seemed quite happy. The crab had crushed the skeleton to the point there was an abrupt cliff on both tips of the frag. Needless to say the emerald is in timeout now.
I did some extremely brief digging and couldn’t find too many cases. Just decided to post in case someone else has some random chunks out coral missing and no other culprit was thought of. Fun stuff!