what's eating my zoa's?

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just stopped at a lfs on wednesday. picked up a tiny frag of zoa's. neat little redish ones. maybe 6-8 polyps.
looked good. all opened up nicely within an hour or so.
everyone was leaving them alone.
Looked at the tank the next morning and i'll be darned if there weren't a few clean circles on the frag plug.
thought it might possibly be the hermit, i saw him messing around with some other stuff, so into the sump he went.
this morning..... well no kidding. the entire frag plug is picked clean.......

tank is a 40B, 2 emerald crabs, fire fish, six line, 2 clowns, pistol shrimp and watchman goby.
handful of random CUC snails from reefcleaners

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What inhabitants do you have ?
Emerald crabs ?
 
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What inhabitants do you have ?
Emerald crabs ?

tank is a 40B, 2 emerald crabs, fire fish, six line, 2 clowns, pistol shrimp and watchman goby.
handful of random CUC snails from reefcleaners

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are emeralds known to eat zoa's? i'll try to figure out which one it is, and banish him to the sump
 

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are emeralds known to eat zoa's? i'll try to figure out which one it is, and banish him to the sump
Could be emeralds or hermits. Probably not nudi’s because you have a sixline.
 

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are emeralds known to eat zoa's? i'll try to figure out which one it is, and banish him to the sump
Yes, some emeralds eats coral.
 
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no hermits, the only one i had got banished the day before.
i'll watch the emeralds, one or both might get banished as well. they can much on chaeto all they want and re-join the display when there's stuff for them to eat.

stupid crabs lol
 

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