Who ate my crabs???

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Woke up to a double murder. Emerald crab missing legs and a shredded blue leg hermit crab body being devoured by a coral. Suspects are Exquisite fairy wrasse, pintail wrasse, red and white wrasse (i forget what type but not a fairy and not carpenter and not mccorsker), royal garamma, midas blenny, orange shoulder tang, pajama cardinal, and a few smaller gobys. Ive never seen any of them go after crabs before. I have found hermit crab bodies in the past though. Maybe they died of natural causes? So whodunnit?
 
Maybe the wrasses other crabs or its a molt
 
Well the emrald crab was a molt, but the hermit crab was definitely a gonner. But I like my wrasses more then I like hermit crabs, sooooo......
 
Perhaps you should replace the bluelegs with a larger type ?
 
Perhaps you should replace the bluelegs with a larger type ?
Thats a possibility. I used to have the bigger electric blue hermits, but I think they were pretty clumsy and destructive. Any other suggestions?
 

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