Can Limpets destroy SPS?

[ShaggyRS6]

So I was looking at one of my fastest growing SPS and then noticed a white patch in the side and also noticed the growth in the frag plug missing. I then see this little sucker on the rock!

Can Limpets do that to an SPS?

 

[ahiggins]

I may be wrong but most limpets will eat corals, but there are reef safe ones.
Check out their write up on reef cleaners and look into keyhole limpets. Good luck

 

[ShaggyRS6]

This one was pretty fast moving for a limpet and the chunk it took was exactly the size of its foot. Must have been it because when I looked at that coral 60 mins earlier it was fine ! Beware of the limpet , hopefully it will grow back. All the polyps are now extended again

 

[DSC reef]

Some can and do eat coral, typically keyhole limpets, while others are herbivores. If you see it on a coral then I'd remove it.

 

[ShaggyRS6]

Some can and do eat coral, typically keyhole limpets, while others are herbivores. If you see it on a coral then I'd remove it.

It’s gone

 

[reef lover]

That particular limpet is a known sps eater...bad lil snails...

 

[vetteguy53081]

Chuck it out of tank !! These are flesh eaters for some reason as Limpets are generally good natured !

 

[ShaggyRS6]

That particular limpet is a known sps eater...bad lil snails...

Can’t believe how quickly it devoured it

 

[reef lover]

Ate my stylo overnight...

 

[ShaggyRS6]

Ate my stylo overnight...

No I am wondering if this is what ate my Tongan Busy coral!

 

[reef lover]

Might be....also be wary of the elephant ear limpet...they like sps as well...