Question (Problem Solved)

[BIGBIRD123]

Allan, ,our stary blennie ate zoas.

[allan]

zoa eating nudis! Had these in before and they about wiped out my zoas! Evil!

They can camoflouge themselves to look like the zoa they are eating. It really cool to watch if you don't care about the fact that they are eating your prized possessions.

It would seem odd that without adding anything in the last month or so that I've brought in a nudi. the loss of these zoas were sudden over night loss of about 20 zoas and palys.

Steve, I hope it's not the starry blenny! But mine has a belly that is about the size of a marble. I'll have to keep an eye out for his behavior.

And I'll examine the tank for a nudi... it would be kind of neat to find one of them, providing I get to them before it decimates some of the other zoas.

[Third Coast Tropical]

Are any of the fish noticeably more fat???...Think it would be easily noticed if it was a fish and they cleared out 2 colonies.....if not, I would look elsewhere.

[sharkboy]

sally lightfoot crab would be my main suspect???

[allan]

Well the starry blenny's belly is about the size of a marble... but it's been that way for awhile. I think it's been drinking beer or something as it looks like he's got a pot belly.

My sally foot... well, I've had her for about two/three months, and with the exception of the sudden loss on Thursday night I've not had any other losses. I plan on spending a lot of time in the tank room keeping an eye on the fish today.

[allan]

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

What is it, Occam Razor? The easiest answer is the right one?

Ok, as mentioned above, I had moved a frag of zoes leaving the majority behind as it had grown onto the rock. Nearby there was another plug with some lime green palys. The next morning both colonies were gone. No trace.

Well last night I noticed two zoas and two palys poking around what I thought was a cleaned off frag disk.

I picked up the disk and discovered that my bench pressing crab must have pushed up the lime green frag disk which in turn fell on top of my red zoas, obscuring both.

So I am a bit embarrassed to say that my big tizzy about something eating my zoas turned out nothing more than me jumping to a conclusion. Sorry to have taken your time folks.

[FireWater]

Well at least your crab is getting his work out in. That is why I dose extra amino acids in my tank.

[cbianco]

PROBLEM SOLVED!!!!

What is it, Occam Razor? The easiest answer is the right one?

Ok, as mentioned above, I had moved a frag of zoes leaving the majority behind as it had grown onto the rock. Nearby there was another plug with some lime green palys. The next morning both colonies were gone. No trace.

Well last night I noticed two zoas and two palys poking around what I thought was a cleaned off frag disk.

I picked up the disk and discovered that my bench pressing crab must have pushed up the lime green frag disk which in turn fell on top of my red zoas, obscuring both.

So I am a bit embarrassed to say that my big tizzy about something eating my zoas turned out nothing more than me jumping to a conclusion. Sorry to have taken your time folks.

Had to look it up, lol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor

For anyone else in the same (unknowing) boat as me, it means he overthought the problem. By overthinking the problem, he can up with a bunch of possible solutions that just didn't apply in this situation.



Some of us need subtitles.

Glad you solved your problem!

Christopher

[allan]

Bitter sweet dude, for even as I was dreading the process to capture the blenny...

... I was envisioning the new rockscape.

[Europhyllia]

You better apologize to that poor innocent sea star and get her back out of the sump!
You can still change your rockscape if you like! ;)