Solve my case "Who killed my blue nuckle hermit grab!?!"
CASE: have one blue nuckle hermit grab dead and 2 suspects and need to know which one so I know if i should return the flame hawk fish if it was him.
suspect 1: Flame hawk fish known for eating small snails, crabs and shrimps. mine is small size and got him LFS where there were shrimps and snails n crabs in the tank. he is new to the tank and barely see him eat food so he could be really hungry.
suspect 2: Newly added blue nuckle hermit grab (Looks 2x bluer). Known to be aggressive towards other tank mates and may kill other grabs for their shells.
Situation and Clues i have:
1. flame hawk still only been in tank for 1 week and just added the new blue hermit crab along with 4 small regular hermits 2 days ago... so total of 10 crabs including the 2 adult size blue nuckle which one of them is dead.
2. Saw dead crab with out the shell and inches from the dead body saw the new hermit crab using the daed crabs shell and havent had time to look for his old shell.
3. Flame hawk fish looks soo cute and inocent and hasn't killed any of the smaller crabs.
4. havent seen whole body of a hermit crab.. but all of its legs and cluase where intact. the part of the body that goes in the shell does look pretty small though and not sure if thtats normal or not.
so which one is guilty?? Flame hawk which hasnt been eating much and well known for cleaing out snails, grabs and shrimps?!?! or new crab which only evidence is him enjoying his new shell?