Can't find my fish in tank

rnttnr

rnttnr

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Help! I bought a juvie mimic tang for my 55 gallon about a week ago and at first he ate well on frozen shrimp for about 3 days. After that he came out once a day. Now for the past 2 days I can't find him and he's not been out as far as I know (maybe he comes out when I'm not there). If he was dead, I'd think he'd be floating. I moved some of my rocks around alittle (not too much as to not totally stress everyone else out). I can't find any evidence that I even had a tang in there. No DEAD body.
Can he be hiding that well?
Or could my inverts have eaten him already?
The only other fish I have in there are two banggaii cardinals.
HELP ME PLEASE!
 
sepulatian

sepulatian

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Originally Posted by rnttnr
Help! I bought a juvie mimic tang for my 55 gallon about a week ago and at first he ate well on frozen shrimp for about 3 days. After that he came out once a day. Now for the past 2 days I can't find him and he's not been out as far as I know (maybe he comes out when I'm not there). If he was dead, I'd think he'd be floating. I moved some of my rocks around alittle (not too much as to not totally stress everyone else out). I can't find any evidence that I even had a tang in there. No DEAD body.
Can he be hiding that well?
Or could my inverts have eaten him already?
The only other fish I have in there are two banggaii cardinals.
HELP ME PLEASE!
If the Cardinals wanted to, they could have easily killed a mimic tang. Only some fish float, most do not. If it has only been two days then don't count him out. He may simply be hiding.
 
rnttnr

rnttnr

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nope- I thimk my tang is dead
It's been too long now since I saw him last
Someone said perhaps the cleaners took care of any evidence
Maybe so
Thanks to all

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I'll check that salitity
 
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alix

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sorry about your tang. i hate it when things just dissappear. happens in my tank all the time. its so weird.
 
camillo

camillo

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at the moment my clean up crew consists of only two hermits and two snails, and when my valentini puffer died it took them less than a couple hours to clean up. all the left was bones. so im assuming that your clean up crew is better than mine, so if you cant find it i think its dead. clean up crews can be pretty efficent.
 
rnttnr

rnttnr

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I just have the regular filtering system and a protein skimmer. It wouldn't have a chance to get into either one of those, unless it jumped.
Thanks for the help. When I picked out the banggaii cardinals I was pretty sure I read they were peaceful.
I'm gonna check on them again. I'm wanting to get a peaceful blenney.
Gonna check on those cards first.
 
eugenez_21

eugenez_21

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I HATE that my female clown died on me and then the male disappeared the next day never fould him and my cleaner crew only consists of 5 hermits. Thay just sucks
 
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alix

Guest
fish dissappear in my FW tanks all the time and it is so weird because i dont have snails or crabs or anything in there.
hmm. maybe the evil neon tetras are eating everyone....
 
zeromus-x

zeromus-x

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Think that's bad? I had a 3.75" clownfish disappear in my home tank. That's a big ass fish to disappear in a 36 gallon tank! Checked everywhere and the

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is just gone. The only other thing in the tank is a spiny puffer (who will be moved to the 75 gal as soon as my other problem is cleared up... they told my girlfriend at the fish store that "he was a toby and won't grow to more than a few inches"... heh), and I don't think they'll devour another fish whole or anything!
 
karenm

karenm

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Did you ever find your mimic tang? I've got 2 small fish missing. A week or so ago I took in a yellow tang and 2 green chromis. One of the chromis stayed under a rock from the get-go, but the other swam around about the middle of the tank. After about 4 or 5 days, I couldn't find either one. I have just a 40 gal tank and no predators. EVen my clean-up crew is lightly staffed right now. I've looked all over and checked ammonia - and nothing. They're just "gone".
 
jessica47421

jessica47421

Active Member
i had a clown missing with no evidence and i thought clean up crew took care of it and while doing my cleaning i found his body, so he jumped from the tank and died.
 
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