Something ate my frogspawn

I bought a little piece frogspawn several days ago from LFS and it had been doing well a couple day. Today the most of flesh is gone and only very few green dots recede in the skeleton. Has something in my tank been feeding on it? It's a 24 gal nano tank and I only have a maroon clown and a flaming hawkfish. I lost an acan a couple months ago like this as well. I've seen a couple bristle worms before but haven't seen them lately. Is it possible bristle worms did it? My water chemistry is good. All other polyps , zoas, and clams are doing well. I have move the poor thing to the top of the tank and hope it will come back. Should I take it out and put it to my 55 gal FOWLR tank where I have a hammer head is doing well?

I'm hooking up with a local guy to pick up some hammer head, frogspawn, and colt tonight. Please help! Should I call off the meeting until I find out what's going on?

Thanks in advance.

 

The only way a bristle worm would eat it if it was already dying. I think it just died. If something actually tried to eat it, it would all be gone.

 

I doubt a bristle worm is to blame. With that said, yes I would move it if it is not showing signs of brown jelly disease.

Perhaps a picture of said coral will help nail it down.

Colts are pretty in-destructable (sp) so I would have no worries there. As far as the other corals, make sure you have no polyclad worms, by looking at the tank at night after the lights have been out for a couple hours.

Also do you have any cleaner shrimp or peppermints or other inverts?

 

Are you sure it's been eaten? Do you have a pic? Frogspawn, when they are not health, receded at the basw. When they open, they are big and you can't tell, but when they retract, they can retract almost all the way into the skeleton. And you see the skeleton, not tissue covering the skeleton. So, I could see this looking like it was eaten. I have this happen to heads when they get shaded out by other heads.

 

Sorry, I should have posted a picture along with the question. Please see picture. As you can see, there are still some green "heads" left on the right hand side. I'm curious about the brown stuff around the lower center though. I don't think it's slimy.

Any hope saving it? Thanks.

 

That thing looks to be gone. My best guess is that is either wasn't very healthy to begin with or the move stressed it out too much. It may have been brown jelly disease, but it's hard to tell at this stage. I highly doubt something ate it. Sometimes corals just die.

 

I have a peppermint but haven't seen him for a while. It maybe eaten by a dwarf lionfish (God rests it's soul) which I thought was too small to swallow the shrimp.

I just add a harlequin shrimp yesterday but I don't know if it would help if I have polyclad worm problem.

Thanks,

 

Wow, I'm a newbie and am still learning. The frogspawn extended nicely the first several days. The day before yesterday it shrunk but the green tips still covered well on the top of skeleton. Today....only few green tips left......

 

The image looks like a hint of brown jelly disease. At this point IMO I would not add any other corals to that tank for a week or so. Run some higher end carbon and I think GuitarMan is right it probably came in with the pathogen, brown jelly disease can wipe out corals very quickly and spread to other LPS in short order, hence the reason to just let the tank sit for awhile without any new additions.

 

Thanks a lot. Any treatment I can use beside let the tank sit?