Kenya tree: it was murder!

[pseudorand]

Below is a picture of my kenya tree. To the left in the rocks is a part of it that broke off. It still looks alive, so I put it in the rocks in the hopes it would attach.

The frag had been doing well until yesterday, when I found my glue job was insufficient and it had "fallen" to the gravel. But it was upright, so I hadn't bothered fixing it yet. Today I found it shriveled and a part broken off. Who could have done such a thing!?!

Suspects:
- two large hermits. (Do they have motive?)
- pincushion urchin. (He could have knocked the frag, but how would he break the polyp?)
- current. I don't think there's enough there, but maybe
- two large Clarkii clowns. They have the strength, but I've never seen them bother corals.
- procreation - is that how kenya trees propagate?

Anyone care to take a guess?

 

[Doctorgori]

I’ve always had one, can’t really get rid of them. Yes they self frag, you’ve been warned <LOL>
my guess is the urchin

 

[pseudorand]

Woo hoo, now I have 2. I'll sell it to my LFS. At this rate, I'll be rich in no time!

 

[JumboShrimp]

Regarding a leather or leather-like coral, I would tend to rule out the hermit crabs... with a side-note that if hungry enough they could have a change-of-mind-and-heart!

 

[Biglew11]

Soft corals don't really glue well. You can take a rubber band to hold them loosely to a rock until they take hold.

 

[jeffchapok]

You can hardly kill the things. Just leave it alone and it'll plump back up. You don't even need to glue it down. It'll grow straight out of the substrate. This also makes them easy to move if you decide to do so.

 

[pseudorand]

Soft corals don't really glue well. You can take a rubber band to hold them loosely to a rock until they take hold.

He was already attached to a little rock. It was the little rock that came unglued from the big one.