I got jacked!!! Where is my Chaeto?

[Domboski]

We have a mystery :scratchch.... I had enough Chaeto to fill a large ziploc bag (just trimmed last weekend). Yesterday I was checking out the pods that were living in it. Today..... ITS GONE :bigeyes:!!!!! Not a single strand found stuck to the skimmer intake cover or in the two Mags (7 and 9.5).

Who could devour that much chaeto in one night? I have an idea but lets see what you guys think. All of the below listed have been in the refuge for quite some time with the chaeto.

Refugium Inhabitants:

• Grass shrimp (4-5)
• Chocolate Chip Stars (1-2)
• A couple of small hermits caught in the LI Sound
• One Peppermint shrimp
• Eastern Mud Snails (4-5)
• Common Periwinkle (4-5)
• One Common Spider Crab :eat:

 

[Josh]

Have you checked your water levels lately? Caulerpa can die off very fast if your levels are out of whack.

I doubt any of those critters would eat back that much chaeto. Is there a rogue school of tangs in there you don't know about?

 

[Domboski]

Have you checked your water levels lately? Caulerpa can die off very fast if your levels are out of whack.

I doubt any of those critters would eat back that much chaeto. Is there a rogue school of tangs in there you don't know about?

LOL. The Params are fine and in fact, I have an above tank Fuge on the same system with Chaeto in it. If it died, you would think I would find strands somewhere right? I failed to mention that there is red grape caulerpa that is still in there fine....

 

[reefman]

some1 else that have access to your Chaetos took it.

 

[Domboski]

I did just change the light I was using on the fuge.... I went from 7100K to 5100K. I still think I would find some Chaeto stuck to the skimmer in take which is in the very next compartment with a sequence 3600 feed. Unless it is mixed in with the skimmate.

I just can't believe not a strand is stuck to the intake cover.

 

[reefman]

omg thats a big spider. thats where ur chaetos went. he ate it.

 

[crox99]

Your LI hermits ate it!!!

 

[crox99]

Have you checked your water levels lately? Caulerpa can die off very fast if your levels are out of whack.

I doubt any of those critters would eat back that much chaeto. Is there a rogue school of tangs in there you don't know about?

He has chaeto not caulerpa. Chaeto doesnt go sexual.:pimp:

 

[Domboski]

That spider crab was tiny when I captured him this past summer (probably an 1.5"). He is now about 5-6"!

 

[Josh]

Ahh, you said spider crab and I thought you meant one of those little reef arrow crabs, not a genuine LI-Sound-giant-toxic-spider-crab.

 

[Domboski]

Yes. The local scary looking crab. He was in a nano I had set up with some polyps. It was cool watching him act as a decorator crab (although they are considered the same species) and walk around with coral growing on his back.

I couldn't find much information about spider crabs eating Macro algae but I could see it happening.

 

[DEEPWATER]

I have his momma right here

 

[reefman]

no offense ,but that mother is ugly

 

[Domboski]

Geez. Even though they are pieceful I am scared to touch it!

How long have you had it Deep?

Nevermind, I am a little slow right now.

 

[crox99]

That looks like a dead mother to me!!!:cyclops: :cyclops:

 

[DEEPWATER]

Geez. Even though they are pieceful I am scared to touch it!

How long have you had it Deep?

Nevermind, I am a little slow right now.

:biglaugh: LOL thats funny

Tht actually from LI ,and its live too :Yikes:

 

[Domboski]

I always keep weird $hi+ like that so I am easily fooled to believe others do as well. ...... and I am an idiot!

 

[crox99]

:biglaugh: LOL thats funny

Tht actually from LI ,and its live too :Yikes:

Sorry but it looks deadrangehat

 

[Domboski]

I guess we all can believe the spider crab ate the Chaeto? If so, I will move him into the above tank fuge and get some more chaeto.

 

[DEEPWATER]

Sorry but it looks deadrangehat

If you shake your monitor it may look like its moving :lol2: its a pic they dont move plus ,its still wet :scratch: