what's eating my polyps? (1 Viewer)

[Guest]

I bought two mushroom polyps-ricordea and they both disappeared off the rocks they were on. The line-up or suspects in the tank include the following:
1) star/stripe puffer
2) mandarin gobie/dragonet
3) lawnmower blenny
4) hermit crabs

Can anyone tell me if any of the above suspects might be eating the polyps?

Thanks.

 

[Wildfire]

The puffer maybe, but I'd be MORE worried about a polyp-eating snail. I got a bad peice of zoa a few month back, which had this "cute little" snail on the rocks (for FREE!!!). After about 48 hours, the polyps I had bought were GONE, and I caught that cute little such-and-such on another zoa colony. He met the great porcelain god in the RO room, and is no longer with us.....

 

[Guest]

oh i forgot...there's also a vermiculated (singapore) angelfish in the tank as well.

 

[Guest]

It is your puffer. I had a dogface a while back and didn't realize that he would munch my shrooms and soft until I caught him in the act. They also like anemones. Puffers aren't really reef-safe, they should really be kept in a FO.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the advice. I will transfer the puffer to my fish-only tank ASAP. My guess would have been the singapore/vermiculated angel fish, because one of the websites indicated that they had to be monitored in a reef system.

 

[Guest]

Your angel is more likely to chow on sps and lps, at least from what I have seen.

 

[i_am_poor]

or they could've detached.