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Eternal420

I have a nasty little problem. I dont want to go all postal on my pepps but.... I bought a 10 headed branching hammer that was a very nice piece until a few days ago. I dont understand why, but he attacks the hammer polyps when they are retracted all the way to the bone. I have lost 3 heads in 4 days. I witnessed it all tank params are fine, and I overfeed my tank (almost every day)

WHY ARE THEY DOING THIS!!?!?!?!?!?!!???

what can I do to prevent it?
 
I know what you mean, when i looked up my prob, before posting, I saw that a few forums had people saying something similar, and some with back to back pictures of pepps and camels... They can be very close... When I first got the 3 shrimp on a GB here, they were almost completely clear. Now they are all a much darker red color. Its possible I could post a pic after work. I read somewhere that pepps are attracted to the slime/mucus from those corals...?
 
Another head gone last night.

:sad:

i didnt get the cam, but im pretty sure they are pepps, although very red, no white stripes really. Tried moving the coral to other side of the tank. Also the yuck from the half eaten polyp was pissing everything else off pretty badly, nothing was opening up, went and did a water change, everything ok but the hammer is looking less and less like a nice piece, and more like just -a- piece.
 
Usually the shrimp are out on the visible spots at night, get a bright flashlight, and flicker it into their eyes to confuse them and net them out. I don't know how much rock you have but if I can do it in my tank, you'll definitely have no problem, and also for the future i would stop overfeeding the tank, because you might have a whole set of new problems. Good luck!
 
I had a pepp that went nuts on me. She did well when I first put her in, cleaned out all of my aptasia. A month after that though she decided to start picking on my goniopra. Figured $10 shrimp was no match for my $50 coral. Out she went, back to the LFS.

Get rid of it unless you direly need it. Not worth the health of your corals.
 
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