I caught that little monster eating my expensive Acans today :mad: so out came the jar trap had him trapped in under 5 minutes. took him for a ride to the fish store. Think I will look at an anemone or Porcelain crab
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I don't have anything else in my tank that would have ate it. I was feeding him daily when I would feed my clowns and fire fish. I watched him eating the coral. I have had emeralds in the past without any problem. The only things in my tank are 2 clowns 1 peppermint shrimp 1 fire fish and an algae blenny and snails . I started my tank with dry live rock. What kind of hitchhiker might you suggest that that could eat 1/4 of an acan head in just a few hours while the emerald was going at it. Just after I fed the little **** some shrimp out of the feeder. I hope I'm right and your wrong lol. Time will tell I guessAn emerald crab would have to be severely underfed for it to go after corals. Also they don't have the right kind of claws to seriously damage a hard coral like an acan. Polyps and soft corals, sure, acans, no. It's more likely something else damaged your acan and the Emerald was scavenging.
he was pretty big. so far my acans are happy and nothing seems to be bothering them I was kind of worried that maybe it might be the blennyHow big was he?
my emeralds pretty much stay away from my corals but can't keep mushrooms they are gone the day they are put in. I guess they have a craving for mushrooms.
I had mine in a trap in less than 5 minuets . just used a small glass spice jar with some krill in the bottom walked away for a few and he went for it lol. whole thing kind of sucks because they are cool to watch. I did some reading and it sounds like it's typically the males that cause trouble and the females are more docile . maybe sometime down the road I will give it another shot with a femaleAs a begginer I bough one to have a better cleanning crew and within a few hours I saw it eating all my xenia and taking him out of the tank was really difficult because they can hide anywhere. It was so stressful.