Dead Sally
 

odd to find my sally lightfoot was dead this morning fully intact sitting beside my clam , yet yesterday it was cruising around the tank eating algae displaying nice color not having a problem. anyone have any ideas?

Are you sure it's dead and not just an exoskeleton?

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took it out completely intact its definitely the crab

If everything else still looks good i'd chalk it up to a "reef mystery", not much to go on otherwise.

yeah i know strange , i know i have no predators and never used copper in the tank and all other inverts are fine and water is perfect confusing to say the least

Don't forget everything has a life span. It can die at any time... just like us... for no reason.

No way to know anything but what we can see with those buggers.

yeah its a mystery probably wont get another one though

I bet he will spring up in a day or two. I had one that I thought was dead because I had a "body" then a day or two later he was there again. They shed their shell and It still looks in one piece..........crazy how they do that.

Unless you have a killer clam, they are sneaky you know, they lie around all the time luring their victems into a false sense of security...then they pounce....oh sorry was thinking of something else:lol: