Very angry right now.

[Naiad]

I have been very busy right now with my father's cancer and getting my 220 stocked with fish. The tank is ment to be a reef however so I put a few small peices of coral to get the thing going. Now I have a bit of time to look at the tank and what do I see...

Everywhere someone has taken killing bites out of my LPS corals! I have my suspect but finding time to trap him is another matter. All I want for Christmas is a peaceful tank...

Traitor!

 

[kendavjac]

Sorry about your father. I had the same problem with a crab awhile back. ended up killing it with a skewer.

 

[Naiad]

I just feel bad because I had seen him take nibbles of the tenticles on the the plate and knew I needed to get him out but never expected him to eat out the mouth and kill the poor thing... just been so exhausted after working and going to hospital. I will stay up tonight even if I need 10 red bulls to get him out now.

 

[tankstudy]

I used a dry fly hook and small piece of bait and fished mine out =d.

 

[Naiad]

I don't think baiting this monster will be too hard, he is a pig. I have too many crabs not enough algae I'm afraid. They are not bad when I was home to feed more. I just don't get home till nine if I have school work and see my dad

 

[Naiad]

Should I leave the plate to see if it possibly miraculously survives. I am almost positive it is a goner though

 

[tankstudy]

I personally would wait, corals tend to do some pretty amazing things sometimes. However, that is up to you really, cause it can possibly cause you some excess nutrient issues.

 

[MOPAR]

Definetly leave the plate in even if the tissues recedes and only the skeleton is left. There is a cool story somewhere I will see if I can find it where a guy bought a red plate for I think 500 and then it died. He didn't bother removing it because it was to much to bear and awhile later a bunch of baby plates started growing off the dead skeleton. He ended up with a bunch of red plates. I belive when stressed the coral seeds it skeleton to reestablish itself. I had a zoa frag with 5 heads that melted away and left nothing but a tiny blob and a few months later it has started poping off new polyps. This dosent happen for everyone, but never hurts to just leave a coral alone and see what happens.

 

[MOPAR]

Well what do you know the guy was our very own revhtree. I tried to post a link, but I can't get it to work. I listed the thread title so you can look it up if you want.

Thread title-Baby RED fungia plate corals! NEW UPDATE!!! JULY 1st!

 

[mbmax]

Sorry about your father. Plenty of good advice here.

 

[Naiad]

Yep got some "clam chowder" ready and a glass jar in place to get some of these extra crabs out. At least my fish are doing good lol. One day I will master both corals, fish and inverts in a single system lol

 

[tomxreef]

Sorry about your father. I am very cautious with inverts ever since I had a peppermint shrimp go rogue and eat my acans.

 

[Naiad]

Sorry about your father. I am very cautious with inverts ever since I had a peppermint shrimp go rogue and eat my acans.

I lost an 5 inch orange plate to a peppermint shrimp. They will never grace my tank again! These guys came on the live rock and are generally reef safe so I let them be. All was fine until they got rid of their food source.. I know I should be giving them supplimental food but I am too tired to do a night feed these days

 

[Anthony Wood]

Best wishes to your father sorry to hear that. As for your crab as said it shouldn't be hard to bait him, you can either wait for him to come out during dark and spear him with something (had to do this with a hitchhiker hairy crab using my "Tacmarker"). Or you could take a water bottle, cut the top 1/4 where is starts to round out, out a piece of krill in the bottom half and take the top 1/4 and invert it so that the twist top side is inside the bottom half. Use a rubber band to hold it together then simply put it in the sand just enough not to float away and wait for him to be caught in the morning. Soaking the krill in something like selcon prior to adding it to the trap will make the little booger really go crazy and want to enter the trap haha

 

[tomxreef]

I lost an 5 inch orange plate to a peppermint shrimp. They will never grace my tank again! These guys came on the live rock and are generally reef safe so I let them be. All was fine until they got rid of their food source.. I know I should be giving them supplimental food but I am too tired to do a night feed these days

I am pretty sure that is what happened to my plates as well. I couldnt get my shrimp out. The royal dottyback i got took care of them though.

 

[Naiad]

Good news! The plate recovered! Bad news the crab knows I'm after him and wouldn't go in the trap lol. I will have to buckle down during my time off to hunt him dowm