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Old 11-11-2009, 07:05 AM
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Came home with a Zoa frag this afternoon with a bonus Torch on it and left for a few hours for a beer and came home to a vacant frag! Torch nowhere to be found!.. would a peppermint eat a small torch coral?would a hermit crab? snail? who's my number one suspect?
want to string up one of them!... gah!
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Old 11-11-2009, 07:07 AM
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I would put money on the peppermint shrimp.
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Old 11-11-2009, 07:13 AM
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Is the skeleton gone too? no one would eat the skeleton, could it have dropped into the rocks?
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Old 11-11-2009, 07:14 AM
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Man that is too bad you were pretty excited about having the baby torch as a freebee. The little torch attached itself to the frag when I added 20 torches a while back to the same water column. My personal opinion is one of 3 things.
1) it moved after being put in your tank so keep an eye out for it just like it moved onto the zoa frag
2) If your crab is big enough it could have been lunch ( but then so would have your zoas)
3) Peppermint shrimp mistook it for an anenome?

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Old 11-11-2009, 08:13 AM
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i guess ill have to peek about for it in the morning.. couldnt get a good look at it kuz the lights are all off but its definietely not on the frag anymore... bummed.. will have to find another tag-along frag next time im up in the NW!
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Old 11-11-2009, 01:38 PM
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Are you sure it is a peppermint shrimp....alot of times camels are sold as " peppermints" and if this is the case they eat all kinds of corals.

Does it look like this?
http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/p...690&pcatid=690
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Old 11-11-2009, 02:24 PM
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Are you sure it is a peppermint shrimp....alot of times camels are sold as " peppermints" and if this is the case they eat all kinds of corals.
My first thoughts as well...
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Old 11-11-2009, 03:24 PM
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phew! false alarm... found him!
got the peppermint at RC so im fairly certain its legit. he's been snacking on my aptaisia problem too.. dont think camelbacks eat aptaisia. all is well, the torch has been located.. thanks everyone!
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Old 11-11-2009, 06:24 PM
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Where was it?
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If the torch "moved" on it's own. It is not a torch coral, as they do not have a foot and lack the ability to move about.
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