The case of the disappearing fishes!

[bfree]

I know we are relativly new to this hobby but fish just going poof is a mystery to me. It started with two blue chromis that one day were in the tank and then gone, with no signs of who ate them or where they went. So they were small little fish that maybe one of the anenomes had its way with, but I doubt it. Maybe they are so small they are in an underneath cavern somwhere decomposing but the ammonia levels never changed. Ok next we went away for vacation for a week in the beginging of the month, the tank was being watched by a freind. We came home and then the Lubicks Wrasse had gone missing same thing no body, no fish, no change in ammonia levels, he was slightly bigger but I guess could have fallen under the rock work, but was 2.5 inches hard to miss? Now the past 3 days one of our favorite fish is missing, our female anthias that has been in there for many months has gone MIA, no sign of her what so ever! The ammonia lvls have not moved as well, where oh where have my fishes gone? Could I have some rogue crab big enough to get rid of 4 fish in under 2 months the largest being about 3.5 inches? My only guess is there are a few caves down low, could they all be falling down there and my lvls not changing one bit? I am at a loss! Four fish no bodies!

 

[smithcreek]

The CBB was hungry once the aptaisia ran out.

 

[bfree]

Different tank the CBB is in the fowlr this is in the main tank.

 

[bfree]

All these readers no theories?

 

[Amazon]

Can you list the residents of the tank? That would help us ID a suspect

 

[JayM]

Can you list the residents of the tank? That would help us ID a suspect

include inverts, serpent stars, etc

 

[kotu100]

carpet diving?

 

[bfree]

NOthing on the floor, pets are engineer goby, yellow tang, Sohol tang, 1 small blue chromi now, 1 athias male lonly now, 2 mated clowns and 4 GBTA.

 

[jamesdong009]

I've had some fish vanish before and just thought that it had died and the CUC took care of business.

Until one day, one of the clowns jumped out, landed on the floor, and became my dog's snack. He loves seafood.

 

[Jennifer]

overflow?
sump?

I had a 6 line wrasse disappear on me before. Never did find the carcass, I assumed the CUC did their job.

 

[afboundguy]

A clean up crew can make quick work of a dead fish. I've had a fish disapear and looked really hard and eventually found the skeleton which was hard because it blended in really well with the sand...

 

[Ray]

I had a 4-5 inch tang disappear one day without a trace. A bad crab could take those fish out no problem or even your clean up crew could have taken care of them

 

[bfree]

OK yeah i have not seen crabs in this tank for about 2 months or so but i do have about 10 hermits in there, oh well I liked those fish its too bad. What will happen to me male anthias without the female around?

 

[DawnOctopus]

Giant bristle worm?

 

[jtma508]

How about a mantis? Any possibility one could have come in on your LR? We're dealing with a similar situation. We've lost 3 jawfish and a red sea perch. All the same size and all in the same section of the tank. Not a trace of any of them.

 

[jbishop]

Jumped out and are behind the tank?

 

[deuceb]

rear overflow?

i lost a chromis for3 months and a mysterey wrasse for 1 both found alive in rear overflow

 

[NHman]

thought that I lost an Exquisite Wrasse until one morning I look in the tank and there it was, swimming around with the other fish. The strange part was that it had been 7 weeks since I last saw it. Just weird.

However I have lost (2) jawfish and (1) fire fish which all appeared to be healthy.



Regards,
NHman

 

[Jennifer]

I just thought I would add that my beautiful Niger Trigger has now been missing for 3 days and presumed dead. It figures ...... well I guess now I can add some cuc to this tank.