Unexpected Killers

SeahorseKeeper · Sep 1, 2012

Have you ever had something kill in your tank that you never thought would kill?

I just had this happen. I had a chalice frag on my sand bed get killed by my blue ric. Somehow the ric wandered to the chalice and made its home there. Of course, this happened while I'm staying a friend's house and babysitting her son. If I had been home, I would have been able to save it.

ritter6788 · Sep 1, 2012

I had Blue Snowflake polyps wipe out a few sps frags and one nice colony. I'm not sure how they do but it's like they nuke themselves and take out the neighboring coral with it. All the polyps in the same patch will be completely gone and the sps coral is left there with RTN.

This is how I found the coral,

The coral was healthy and growing and there were blue polyps all around the rock underneath it. When I discovered this ALL of the blue polyps were completely gone from the entire rock. I've had those for years and they hadn't harmed anything. I was able to save several frags of the milli but my nice colony was no more.

greybolt03 · Sep 1, 2012

I had an unlucky crab try and walk across my micromussa colony

rajkovich207 · Sep 1, 2012

I did a overnight black out in a small storage container with a power head in it, and a ric decided to go touch my sympodium, I lost them both as well as 2 other zoa colonies, and one other thing I can't remember, last year.

rajkovich207 · Sep 1, 2012

Also never got a positive id on it (ill have to throw it on here when I get home) but it was sold to me as a white ric, sometimes I would see it trying to eat some of my small snails, forget what they are called, and when I went to move it there was about 30 dead snail shells under it.

ritter6788 · Sep 1, 2012

I forgot about these.

War Coral eating a bristle worm.

Bangaii cardinal with a mouth full of peppermint shrimp.

SeahorseKeeper · Sep 1, 2012

My seahorses ate my peppermint shrimp. I also think I need to take my blue snowflake polyps out.

kes · Sep 3, 2012

lol oh wow, I never knew these guys can go after ornamental shrimps!

robert · Sep 3, 2012

This may not be the type of killer your talking about - but its weird enough.

Glued a frag with a large glob of gel superglue and returned the frag to the tank thinking nothing about it. No sooner than I had it placed than my powder blue tang came up and tasted the blob of glue and glued his mouth shut. It was a huge glob and I figured for sure it would suffocate him. He panicked and was all over the tank but managed to get it off a couple hours later.

SeahorseKeeper · Sep 3, 2012

robert said:
This may not be the type of killer your talking about - but its weird enough.

Glued a frag with a large glob of gel superglue and returned the frag to the tank thinking nothing about it. No sooner than I had it placed than my powder blue tang came up and tasted the blob of glue and glued his mouth shut. It was a huge glob and I figured for sure it would suffocate him. He panicked and was all over the tank but managed to get it off a couple hours later.

That's crazy!!! I'm glad the tang was OK.

3Twinklets · Sep 3, 2012

ritter6788 said:
I forgot about these.

War Coral eating a bristle worm.

Bangaii cardinal with a mouth full of peppermint shrimp.

Bingo!! Guess this is what happened to my Peppermint shrimp.

dwilliams87 · Sep 3, 2012

I had a Open Brain eat a hermit crab, shell and all. Also, early on before I new better, I had an acan enchinata next to an acan lord and the enchinata killed over half of my lord colony.

chort55 · Sep 3, 2012

I had a skimmer pump short out, fry and kill off all my sps..... smelled burnin plastic for 2 days before I found the culprit, as the smell was somehow coming out of the venturi! It never caught fire or anything but definitely did some serious damage