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Tylt33
12/10/2009, 08:57 PM
We have a mystery at the LFS: something has been moving brain corals around the tank every night. Accepting guesses as to what is doing it. The info:

1. It only happens at night.

2. Brain corals are being pulled to DIFFERENT locations in the tank- there are three brains in the tank, they've been ending up in different locations during the same night.

3. No other corals appear to be moved.

4. None of the corals appear to be damaged.

5. Some of them are being moved up from the sand 6"+ onto ledges.

6. Fish in the tank- blenny, clownfish, anthias. Others: big tiger cucumbers, scarlet cleaner shrimp, emerald crabs.

Guesses? Popular vote right now is perhaps the tiger tail cucumbers, or a huge gorilla crab with a taste for interior decorating. Everyone is baffled. Eunicid worm would be reasonable if things were being eaten...
Big Country_IL
12/10/2009, 09:00 PM
Any chance you can set a video camera up for night recording? Any roommates? My brain corals never move, but my hermit crabs do knock small corals off.
bertoni
12/10/2009, 09:25 PM
Maybe a crab. Hard to say; there's lots of suspects.
Fishamatank
12/10/2009, 09:40 PM
A person.
wickedfish
12/10/2009, 09:45 PM
leave the brains alone. There probaly trying to mate i tell, ya.
leafeater
12/10/2009, 09:50 PM
This is the best mystery game... I like the camera idea.
Tylt33
12/10/2009, 09:50 PM
It's not at my house- it's happening at the LFS. I don't know what would/could move a big 4" brain coral back a foot and then up a foot on a ledge.

They're going to set up a time lapse camera.
Neogenocide
12/10/2009, 09:59 PM
I saying former LFS owners ghost.
kevantheman35
12/10/2009, 10:04 PM
pistol shrimp? mine moves stuff around every night
Jim96SC2
12/10/2009, 10:09 PM
Maybe the brain corals are just trying to find eachother so they can put their heads together.


Har har!
-Pixie-
12/10/2009, 10:11 PM
Hahaha do you own the LFS, or atleast workthere?

i bet someone is moving them to trip you out LOL!
singold
12/10/2009, 10:17 PM
Large snails possibly???
chrlesdikkenson
12/10/2009, 10:23 PM
This Brain Coral holds tight to the sand until its time to journey with the waves of the deep blue sea.There are many metaphors for this process.
Time is a strange creature when the ocean navigates ones mind.
Tylt33
12/10/2009, 10:45 PM
pistol shrimp? mine moves stuff around every night

But moving three large brains to opposite spots in the tank? And sometimes a foot up on live rock?
Tylt33
12/10/2009, 10:46 PM
Large snails possibly???

No large snails in the tank.