Something is eating my coralline algae!

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Originally Posted by Titus99

Got a urchin?

Also red that emerald crabs will eat it to

No urchins as the post states, and I don't have any crabs (not even hermits).

Originally Posted by noirsphynx

Any asterina star fish? I had some in one of my tanks that were eating the coraline.

Come to think of it, I have many of those! Could they be the culprit? How to get rid of them, and should I?

Originally Posted by reefwars

its the chitons for sure i have about 50 of them they breed easily , im not sure eating your coraline is a bad thing is it??

It is when you do see rocks I am not as lucky as you where my rocks are hidden by my corals (at least not yet)

So then based on this, it could be the single chiton I have, or the asterina starfish. It might be the starfish as I have started to notice their population going up recently.

I don't want to remove something beneficial that doesn't need to be removed. And now after what reefwars said, I am even leaning towards leaving whatever is eating the coralline alone.

I am not too worried about it, but I like the coralline look and just thought to mention it to get some thoughts from the experts.