Blasto Coral eats crab...

[ElectricLove]

So I’ve been looking and can only seem to find results for corals being eaten by crabs and not the other way around. But, lo and behold, I watched my Blasto (I think, I’m new to this) eat a blue-legged crab today!

I can’t imagine how it happened but I witnessed the legs of the crab sticking out of the corals mouth and watched it slowly disappear inside.

anyone see this before? Common?

 

[Cmooreinor]

Enjoying a nice molt!

 

[ElectricLove]

So the crab just molted off this shell and the coral caught it?

 

[Hermie]

So the crab just molted off this shell and the coral caught it?

yeah most likely, unless you see a shell somewhere around the bottom of the coral. Hermits are very good at retracting when there's danger. And since they have an exoskeleton, I don't see how a coral could "sting" them.

 

[Tastee]

My Trachy and Cynarina often catch my Coral Banded Shrimp’s molts.

 

[AZMSGT]

I had a peppermint shrimp get eaten by an Acan. It wasn’t a molt.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Oops. That happens sometimes. I had a wilsoni that ate a blue-legged hermit.