Hermits forgiven. Emerald BUSTED.

[lastlight]

Am I crazy? My moonlights aren't super bright but i swear I saw one of them picking at my birdsnest and there happen to be some white areas in the past 2 days that appear scraped.

It's growing new little points all over so I think the coral itself is doing really well.

[fishoholic]

I have the same thing with one of my sps, one spot that looks scraped, but otherwise doing well. I thought maybe I hit it with the feeding tongs but I don't remember doing so. However I don't have hermits (I do have a crab and a pistol shrimp) so I'm not what happened to it.

[fishytime]

perhaps some dead tissue that the hermie smelled?......only time any of my inverts(hermits/sexy shrimp) have picked at a coral was when the coral was slightly damaged and had some dead or dieing tissue.....

[trinac]

I saw the exact same thing a few days ago, the hermit crab was sitting at the top of my birdsnest where new growth is forming. I took the crab off and put it on the rock near the birdsnest, and it had the gall to crawl all the way back to the top of the coral. After that, he promptly took a flight to the other side of the tank and he hasn't found his way back so far.

[Lance]

Oh yeah, those little #%@&*%#$ will eat anything. They totally stripped a large frag of Hydnophora I had in the frag tank. Banished them to the sump where hopefully they will eat each other.

[lastlight]

Hmm...I only have 5 hermits but no sump. I'll keep an eye on them I guess.