Riccordia eating my Shrimp - Photo-

[jerrym21]

I got home from work yesterday and found my Riccordia in the middle of his dinner. Peppermint Shrimp was on the menu last night.





I would not have thought a Riccordia would become a predator but I guess the shrimp was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

[dc]

Maybe it was just a molt? I think anything gets close to the mouths they are goners. I had a brown polyp eat my clown goby.

[kappaknight]

Yeah, he may be eating what's left of a molt.

[chujai]

i would think the shrimp would be too fast for it to eat it no?

[Scottkelly911]

agree on the molt replies. Peppermint shrimp are notorious for hiding, when they molt, even more so. Let us know if he pops up and this happened to be the molt. I can't tell you how many times, I thought my shrimp were dead only to discover a day or two later that it was molting. Very cool pics though none the less and it saved you the hassle of pulling the molt out.

[stupac21]

i had an anenome eat my shrimp before, everyone told me it must have been a molt, but it wasn't. it was the poor little guy.

It was a cleaner shrimp

[jerrym21]

It's possible that it was a molt but I don't think so. A molt is usually transparent, almost clear. As the Riccordia inflated while eating he almost looked like a ball. I could see that the shrimp inside of it looked dark and solid. I'll keep looking for it and let you know if it turns up.

[DaveJ]

The reef is not a safe place to live.... everything in it will eat something else if given the opportunity.

[IPowderBlueTang]

Unless your pep was sick or dying and wasn't fast enough to get away from the ric before it got a hold of him!

[dc_909]

Definitely a molt

[supervdl]

It's a molt.