Coral being eaten?

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I’ve had this tank for 4 years with very few problems and I’ve never seen this before anywhere. This particular coral has been in the tank since day 1.
36 G reef tank one clown fish. Water is in good balance. A few notes:
1) found a good sized hitchhiker crab 2) could hurricane power outage stress (3 days) be showing now? I had bubblers and ran filters on the generator for 6 hours per day.
Suggestions on what would cause this. Thank you!
 
Yes. Parameters are all fine. Maybe not overnight but within a day or 2. Crazy?!
 
When in doubt, get it out;) That look like major eating on the stems. Do you have a picture of the crab?
 
Looks like my fungia after one "dinner date" with a gorilla crab.
 
If you can i would remove the coral and put it in a bucket before you try to remove the crab so it can't Escape in the tank.
 
I have a gorilla crab and an emerald crab that live in my sump. The gorilla was a hitchhiker I found and the emerald went rouge and chewed on my frog spawn. The fleshy part not the skeleton I did not think crabs ate calcium carbonate. Good that you got it out. that thing looks nasty.
 
Who knows if that’s what it is? I’ll sacrifice a nasty crab to see. Lol. Hope this fixes it.
 

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