[mogurnda]

Well, I am having a small setback. Although the turtle grass is making steady progress, something has developed a taste for the stargrass. Every night a littl more disappears, and the surrounding sand looks like someone's been digging. The possible culprits and evidence are:

Red leg hermits: The evidence is that I never trust hermits. They are coming out anyway, now that the algae problem is gone. I never see them dig, though.

Eunicid worms: There are several "aerating" my sandbed, including one that is about a foot long when fully contracted. They shouldn't eat plants, right? But the area looks like they may have been pulling things under.

Other contenders include a fleshy limpet, a few porcelain crabs, some ceriths (cortez and gulf) and about a dozen small nerites.