Alright, not sure where to start. I left town twice (5 days with a feeder, two weeks apart) and upon arrival BOTH times, 3-4 LPS corals were completely gone or half gone.
Tank itself:
6-7 months, super consistent #'s and parameters, no real issues until this situation.
My clean up crew consists of 2x peppermint shrimp, blue/red hermits, snails.
Trip 1: I had 8 fish.
1 Yellow tang, 2 powder tangs (diff colors), reef beauty, lyretail anthias, and royal blue tang.
Came back, fish were fine - however 3 or 4 of my torches were completely bare to the skeleton. Shocked me bc most of those were my original corals.
In between trips, I removed the yellow tang and reef beauty (donated to local children hospital fish care company that takes them in). I thought they did this bc I had seen them nibbling around corals before.
2 weeks later, Trip 2 - now with two less fish.
Came back to 1.5 torches gone and the start of my hammer being white from being nipped on. SOMETHING is doing this or not getting enough food from my feeder.
I know technically "Any fish can potentially do this", but not sure where to start and find it weird that this has happened twice in 7 months while I happen to be gone for a few days. My clean up crew consists of 2x peppermint shrimp, blue/red hermits, snails.
Tank itself:
6-7 months, super consistent #'s and parameters, no real issues until this situation.
My clean up crew consists of 2x peppermint shrimp, blue/red hermits, snails.
Trip 1: I had 8 fish.
1 Yellow tang, 2 powder tangs (diff colors), reef beauty, lyretail anthias, and royal blue tang.
Came back, fish were fine - however 3 or 4 of my torches were completely bare to the skeleton. Shocked me bc most of those were my original corals.
In between trips, I removed the yellow tang and reef beauty (donated to local children hospital fish care company that takes them in). I thought they did this bc I had seen them nibbling around corals before.
2 weeks later, Trip 2 - now with two less fish.
Came back to 1.5 torches gone and the start of my hammer being white from being nipped on. SOMETHING is doing this or not getting enough food from my feeder.
I know technically "Any fish can potentially do this", but not sure where to start and find it weird that this has happened twice in 7 months while I happen to be gone for a few days. My clean up crew consists of 2x peppermint shrimp, blue/red hermits, snails.