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I have a 3 year 120 gallon/40 gallon sump/refugium mixed reef tank with many soft, LPS and SPS corals. For some reason ONLY my chalices are losing its flesh all the way down to the skeleton overnight. I thought it was peppermint shrimp so I took all of mine out of the tank. A few other chalices suffered the same fate overnight without the shrimp so I concluded it was not them. I am clueless.....I wake up in the middle of the night with a flashlight to see if something else is chewing the coral and never see anything. All of my other corals was doing very well...I have healthy euphyllias, montipora digitata and plates, acans, zoas, acroporas, pavona, leathers, mushrooms, birdsnest, blastos, duncans, candy canes, ricordea, green star polyps and a few others are all doing extremely well....except the total decimation of my chalices!! Need help!! Are there some type of black/red bugs that I can't see that eat Chalices? If so how to kill them? I have ruled out shrimp and crabs. Would pods do this kind of damage at night??