watch your keyhole limpets, sps eater caught

[iivan740]

About a month ago I declared war on my hair algea problem. It was more of a preemptive strike to asure eradication before the hair took over. The point is that I bought a snail pack off of ebay, and this pack had 10 keyhole limpets. Great, tooth brush finger picking and snails took care of the hair, at least most of it. The hair is almost non existant now, I WIN take that hair algea *****!!!!

The problem started about four days age, I was doing the top off and cleaning a little, I noticed that my green birdnests base had been stripped to the skeleton. My first thought was that I had been careless and gotten some undesolved salt in the tank and a piece had burned the base of the sps. I watched the destruction slowly grow and continue to grow over the past few nights. Last night I turned the lights on and found a limpet around the base, so I poked it and it moved on. Afew minutes ago I found the same one one the birdnest eating (fu&*(*^ son of a bi#$&) I pryed the bastard off and threw it into the sump. After I calmed down I took some pictures of the damage and the limpet. I could not find the actual limpet that I caught red handed but the pics are of two that came in the same bag. The one I caught was about twice the size of these guys.

I am inclined to leave the rest in the main tank, my thinking is that the one was a rogue limpet with a taste for sps. But I am on the boarder of de-limpeting my tank. Any advice? Thanks and please be forwarned, I didn't catch this guy snooping around the sps, I caught it eating the flesh of my sps.

[Tigger]

i have quite a number of limpets in my tank too. I will observe if they really eat sps. I have observed something similar (sps w/o fleash from the base) in my tank too.

[Gina]

Hmmmm.....thanks for the info! We've had several of these in the past and never noticed them on any of our corals.

[billyr98]

Ivan thanks for that info...