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Last week I put a molly miller blenny and pair of emerald crabs in a nano that had a black widow.

Next morning I woke up to find the black widow dead (and not rotting as it was perfectly healthy the day before).

Any ideas? At first I thought it's the emerald crabs but now also thinking it could be the blenny given some ppl get it for aiptasia control.

Any thoughts pls?
 

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Something ate lunch, maybe.
How big was the black widow?
Was there a new hole in the nem? How big?
Pictures from the scene would be great for examining the details of the mystery.
 
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Something ate lunch, maybe.
How big was the black widow?
Was there a new hole in the nem? How big?
Pictures from the scene would be great for examining the details of the mystery.
The nem was gone only a white meaty piece left, and ih smelled it was not rotting like a dying nem. So something chewed on the tentacles..the crab or the blenny
 

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I think everyone in the group got a piece of the action. That’s a lot of flesh to go missing. I’m not going to keep a Molly Miller in my tanks, and I had already banned the green crabs for similar incidents of missing fleshy specimens.
 
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I dont like emerald crabs either, just get them for bubble algae in my nano. If there is another natural way to get rid of bubble algae by all means, I would never get crabs
 

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