Melanurus Wrasses eating inverts

[waterkat]

My Melanurus Wrasses decided to eat all my snails, crabs and starfish. Could that be the reason why my phosphates are high?

 

[Rocks reef]

It can be a reason yes. Are you able to take out the shells? Reason being, is if there are remnants of the snails and crabs in the shells, the decaying process is raising your nutrients.

 

[waterkat]

It can be a reason yes. Are you able to take out the shells? Reason being, is if there are remnants of the snails and crabs in the shells, the decaying process is raising your nutrients.

No, but I will. Thanks!

 

[HeyJay]

I have PTSD from this post. My absolute favorite fish but I had to re-home mine for the same reason. He was fat and extremely well fed but any inverts were toast.

 

[Featherweight]

Crap, time to get mine out I guess.

 

[waterkat]

I have PTSD from this post. My absolute favorite fish but I had to re-home mine for the same reason. He was fat and extremely well fed but any inverts were toast.

It is mine favorite as well but he has to go! It even ate my big starfish.

 

[Ziggy17]

Just to cover all variables. Is it possible all the inverts were dead from something else and the wrasse is cleaning up the spoils? The increase in phosphates could be from a mass die off of the inverts. More likely than a wrasse killing them one by one and eating them causing an increase. Perhaps there was a change in the water parameters that the inverts didn’t like. Or they were starving from too much CUC with not enough algae?

 

[HeyJay]

Crap, time to get mine out I guess.

It's hit or miss, if you have one that is behaving you may have gotten lucky!

 

[Featherweight]

It's hit or miss, if you have one that is behaving you may have gotten lucky!

Mines still under 3 inches...