kllyjansen
New Member
Hey guys:
I have a small 5 gallon aquarium with 5+lbs of live rock, a few corals, a single hermit and two snails. I USED to have a little goby and a peppermint shrimp.
A month or so ago my goby mysteriously died and I had to move some of the rock around to pull it out... it was pretty wedged in there. It looked a bit tattered. Yesterday my shrimp disappeared without a trace... no body, nothing. Just gone. My aquarium is pretty small so it's very easy for me to check all possible places.
I didn't understand the goby but I thought that maybe a water change had gone wrong and left it at that. I didn't replace the fish because I am going to be gone over the holidays and if I don't have a fish I don't need someone to come feed as often. The shrimp is a real mystery as it has disappeared completely.
I will not be getting any other fish until after the New Year, but now I am concerned that I have something preying on my fish. I just don't know how my rather large shrimp could have disappeared without even a leg being left over.
Because it is a small tank, I just don't know how something that can take out a whole fish can be lurking in there. The only suspicious thing I have seen is a small brown lobstery thing that has popped out of a rock (only twice in 5 months). I am pretty confident that it is not a mantis shrimp because it has two distinctive claws, one bigger than the other. It is about an inch long, very quick.
I don't want to remove the rock he is in because that would be about half of my display. I don't even know if he is the culprit. Any ideas?
I have a small 5 gallon aquarium with 5+lbs of live rock, a few corals, a single hermit and two snails. I USED to have a little goby and a peppermint shrimp.
A month or so ago my goby mysteriously died and I had to move some of the rock around to pull it out... it was pretty wedged in there. It looked a bit tattered. Yesterday my shrimp disappeared without a trace... no body, nothing. Just gone. My aquarium is pretty small so it's very easy for me to check all possible places.
I didn't understand the goby but I thought that maybe a water change had gone wrong and left it at that. I didn't replace the fish because I am going to be gone over the holidays and if I don't have a fish I don't need someone to come feed as often. The shrimp is a real mystery as it has disappeared completely.
I will not be getting any other fish until after the New Year, but now I am concerned that I have something preying on my fish. I just don't know how my rather large shrimp could have disappeared without even a leg being left over.
Because it is a small tank, I just don't know how something that can take out a whole fish can be lurking in there. The only suspicious thing I have seen is a small brown lobstery thing that has popped out of a rock (only twice in 5 months). I am pretty confident that it is not a mantis shrimp because it has two distinctive claws, one bigger than the other. It is about an inch long, very quick.
I don't want to remove the rock he is in because that would be about half of my display. I don't even know if he is the culprit. Any ideas?
