I dipped all my LR in firstly fresh RO water followed immediately by a carbonated water dip (both alsrin approx 1min each) last sunday (2 Dec) but to found nothing other than hundreds of dead tiny copepods/amphipods which was abit upsetting!
However I did not get a spike in anything and all my corals opened the next day and all my CUC seemed happy enough!
Well anyways the clicking all stopped as well until saturday evening (8 Dec) when I again heard several clicks come from the tank.
Well anyways yesterday evening (9 Dec) whilst looking in the tank I noticed 3 empty hermit crab shells lieing on the sand bed. I didnt think much of it until I noticed that next to 2 of the shells lay the front claws/legs of the hermits with a thin clear "film" of skin attached to where the body used to be. It looked like the body had melted away leave a transparent cobwebbylayer of skin behind. Before anybody suggests it, the hermits had defo not molted as when removing the remains from the water I noticed the claws/legs were solid and not hollow skin!
The other thing is the hermits were all alive and well before I heard the clicking the night before and I knwo this because I do not have many hermits so can keep an eye oout for all of them so I know which is which!
Also I noticed my serpant star has had a quarter of one of it's legs cut off as it is now shorter than it's others! Again I do not know what may have caused this but believe it was attacked but luckily survived!
Does anybody have any suggestion as to whats going off in the tank and what I can do to catcth the "thing" responsible!
This really is doing my head in as I am losing everything in my tank and can not enjoy my marine experience at all as I am far too worried about all my mysterious deaths and disapearances!!!!!!!
