Oops, is this bad?

[Coralgurl]

Noticed my cleaner shrimp died this morning, when I went to pull it out, I dropped it and it floated into my bubble coral. I tried to pull it out but the bubble had a good grip on it and it's almost disappeared into it's mouth. It's a good size shrimp, is this going to cause me problems? I haven't fed the bubble in a couple of days so that's not a concern.....

[daniella3d]

no, not really. it will digest what it can and it will poop the rest. Since we cannot force feed a coral, it will eat if it wants to eat and if it does, I am guessing it consider the thing as food.

In nature I am guessing this happen from time to time and corals take all the opportunities to feed that they can have.

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

Noticed my cleaner shrimp died this morning, when I went to pull it out, I dropped it and it floated into my bubble coral. I tried to pull it out but the bubble had a good grip on it and it's almost disappeared into it's mouth. It's a good size shrimp, is this going to cause me problems? I haven't fed the bubble in a couple of days so that's not a concern.....

[Myka]

Are you sure it wasn't just a shrimp molt? They look startlingly alike! The coral will be fine, it will spit it out if it needs to.

[Coralgurl]

Yep it was the shrimp, it molted shortly after I added to the tank last week. Not sure what went wrong, was fine yesterday, he was like a fishy car wash, fish all went for a cleaning (dealing with ich at the moment).
Piggy coral, wasn't letting go for nothing!