Hammer eater who do you think it is?

reefer024 · Feb 28, 2021

What's going on? Emerald crab, pistol shrimp, coral banded shrimp, harptail blenny only possible culprit. It had a small piece out of it then it was all of a sudden like this today. Within a small amount of time as I observe my tank through the day.

fishguy242 · Feb 28, 2021

hi,going with coral banded 1,emerald 2nd

Brady4000 · Feb 28, 2021

Emerald, I had two, and they tore up any new frag in the tank. Dropped them in the peacock mantis tank RIP.

obviously a guess, I heard some are saints lol

reefer024 · Feb 28, 2021

I don't think the coral banded is the guy. But I just set up my indoor ring camera right by the hammer so hopefully by tomorrow evening we will know exactly who.

fishguy242 · Feb 28, 2021

crab kabob

reefer024 · Mar 1, 2021

Soo.. Im almost positive it's my emerald crab, my ring camera had of course a lot of footage but scrolling through it, he was the only one that payed any attention to it. And actually picked at it a little bit. No harptail in any footage by it and the coral banded shrimp went by many times but didn't pay an attention to it. So softie frag tank he went, he was easy to catch he wanted to fight my tongs.

tehmadreefer · Mar 1, 2021

The emerald crap without a doubt

moz71 · Mar 1, 2021

Do you happen to have a pincushion urchin? Looks just like my torch problem and a couple of us on here signed it down to our urchin.

reefer024 · Mar 1, 2021

moz71 said:
Do you happen to have a pincushion urchin? Looks just like my torch problem and a couple of us on here signed it down to our urchin.

No I do not. This crab is the devil it was on my pink octo pulling at it

KrisReef · Mar 1, 2021

That looks like a coral killer with those claws. I’ve seen a few “emerald crabs” that were actually some other species, maybe a Trojan horse crab. They always sneak in and eat coral?