What the shrimp did to the Hammer coral....

Back in December 12th I mentioned that the peppermint shrimp had attacked the hammer.  Well, time to give an update with pictures.  He ate the hammer coral completely, then the next day he ate his shrimp friend.

Here is a short video of him attacking the hammer coral, this was shortly after adding the hammer.  Notice how there are a lot of polyps/hammer bubbles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv5N-e6YDD4

This is a picture taken on Dec the 15th, you can see there is very little of the hammer left:

This another picture taken on Dec 20th, almost nothing left:

A few days later everything was gone, with only the skeleton remaining.... he was eating the remaining coral tissue at night, probably.


Last Saturday Jan 9th I tried to capture him with a plastic bottle trap, with food pellets inside, which didn't work.... might try again tomorrow, as I want to get him out of the tank and changed for another calmer shrimp before trying to add a hammer coral in there again.

In fact I'm going to make a better trap, with a larger plastic bottle, a thinner bottleneck and put better food inside.