Doesn't that suck

[ty_05_f]

I lost one of my clowns today it was part of a pair. No traces of where it could be, and it was just fine last night. This is the second fish that has just gone missing. It was small but seemed healthy. I lost my clown goby a couple of months ago for no aparent reason too.

 

[ty_05_f]

Here is a picture. They were about an inch in lengh.

 

[skirrby]

sorry about your loss. my last 2 additions to the tank have dissapered also.. not a trace to where they went... i now have a skunk cleaner shrimp, and a neon goby on my MIA list

 

[viper_930]

Maybe you've got a mantis?

 

[zanemoseley]

do you hear any clicking coming from your tank?

 

[ty_05_f]

nope no clicking. The only thing I could think of is the Brittle star, but I normally feed him. Besides that the clown rarely ever leaves it's host, the mag float, which is not close to the rocks and is to where the brittle can't reach.

 

[mightyoxjuice]

carpet surfer?

 

[viper_930]

Is it a green brittle star?

 

[ty_05_f]

nope not green. I have checked the carpet to no avail.

 

[niger12]

Do you by chance have a Emerald Crab?

 

[ty_05_f]

Nope

 

[yellowtail]

do emralds hurt fish?

 

[ross]

Sucked down the overflow?

 

[scribben]

omg i have had 2 fish go mia and i hear that clicking sound will someone fill me in on what that is i have lost a diadema and a clown goby both real small fish both healthy as horses and the next day gone

 

[ross]

Do a search for mantis. They are inverts that will eat your shrimp, snails, crabs, and fish. They live in the lr. You will need to get rid of it because it will keep eating fish. Just be careful when messing around in the tank....they bite very hard. You will have to find what piece of lr he lives in, and take it out and pour soda on it or put in water w/ a very high specific gravity to get it out. good luck

 

[doxboi]

I have lost fish to anemones and emerald crabs, also a sally light foot. Why, I don't know I have crazy critters. What they do is when the lights go off the fish sleep and up creeps a crabs and pulls it under a rock somewhere and bye bye fish.

 

[kpk]

That does suck ty. I lost one of mine a few days ago, but it was of the female. The lights came on on day and she was in the anemone, then the other tried to get in it and she whooped it's butt. Never saw him again.

 

[ty_05_f]

I checked my ammonia and it's zero so I am clueless to what happend. Sorry to hear that Kpk

 

[nicky1.8t]

it always sucks to lose a fish

 

[scribben]

mantis shrimp huh omg well this wont be easy any suggestions on a strategy what can i use to lure him out and well i justneed some idea because i have never seen a mantis in there and i have enough trouble catching fish
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