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Green Clown Goby Incident

wpeterson

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In our 29gal tank, we have a pair of Percula clowns, a yellow headed Jawfish, and a green clown goby. They've all been established for about a year. I run an in-tank overflow/pre-filter box on a HOB AquaC Remora S skimmer.

This morning, I found that the Goby had died and her body was trapped between the overflow box and the tank (there's a 3-5mm space where the overflow attaches to the tank wall via four large suction cups).

Any idea what may have happened here? No obvious signs of trauma to the fish. I can't tell if she passed away and then floated behind the overflow intake or somehow got stuck and passed away there.

This may just be a fluke, but I'd love any advice or analysis of what might have happened here. She was one of our favorite fish and it was a terrible morning.
 
Important general background: water quality seems good - no signs of stress from SPS, anemone, or other fish.

Water Params:
Temp: 79 F (with spikes to 81F on some of the hotter days)
Salinity: 1.026
Alk: 440 ppm
Calc: 11 dkh
Mg: 1800 ppm
Ammonia: ~ 0 (no trace on test)
Nitrite: ~ 0 (no trace)
 
Sorry man. My guess would be it got stuck there and couldn't get out.

I had a fish trap in my tank and kept it attached to the tank via magnets. I was watching the tank and saw one of my clowns swim and get stuck in between the trap and the tank glass. Luckily I saw it and let it out.


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The camera you have must just be a live feed? I was wondering if there was a 24hr playback feature?
 
I don't archive the live video, but I do archive snapshots every 10 minutes.

The last captured images of the goby alive and happy were on Monday, during the day. I thought I saw the Goby myself yesterday during the day, but couldn't find anything in the image archives to support that. Perhaps she got stuck sometime on Monday night.
 
Either way that is too bad and I can sympathize.

Just lost three fish we had for the past six years.
 
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