Emerald Crab eating zoas or just poking at rock?

What do you think is more of a possibility? him eating at the zoas or or at the zoa rock? He's skittish so when i would move close to him he would stop but where he was poking at on the zoa frag rock their all closed up.

do you think there was just something on the frag rock? im hoping thats all he was doing as it would be hard to catch him if he starts eating corals

 

well i would just keep an eye on him. and of course keep an eye in your zoas and see if there is any missing or any ripped or sings of nipping.

 

yea im really hoping he was just picking at the rock, he hasnt really done much and i kind of like him in a so ugly he's cute kind of way with his pale body and harry leggs, kind of cool to watch him eat

 

OM NOM NOM!!!



Seriously though, I doubt he is. He may be just picking at it or trying to get some algae thereabouts. I have had ZERO issues with coral om nom with my emeralds.

That said, keep an eye out for the behavior, do a head count on the zoas, and watch for intermittent damage to the heads. And of course make sure he is getting food of sorts.

 

man i know for a fact he will be chomping on those zoas as soon as the algae in ur tank doesnt taste good any more but u have to see it with ur own eyes .when my e crab did and i saw a tear fell and then i flew into a rage

 

yea im hoping your right i see him picking at the rocks all the time, he's picking at the zoa frag rock again but every time i come any where near the tank he stops and runs hard to say the zoas are opening back up though

 

still working on the zoa frag its really hard to say right now

 

now he's going after the birdsnest, i'm getting really worried here

 

is he nipping at it? harming it? you could get a container and let him spend the night if you are really worried. ( i did that with my skunk cleaner shrimp when i had to take my tank down once)

 

its really hard to say, like i noticed he was mainly poking at the parts of the coral that looked bleached that which are the very tips of the coral and no where else, he was also climbing all over the coral and putting his claw in his mouth, i didn't see anything in his claws i was thinking it could possibly be the polyps but i didnt see what he was eating at, the zoas look ok, their open again and look unharmed, and after poking around at the birdsnest after 30 seconds he got off.

and the container is a good idea, but i dont have one