Is my sally a murderer??

[wrassecal]

Had this in fish but not getting much feedback....
Last week I added a neon cleaner goby. Within 48 hours it disappeared. Last night I added a tiny yellow clown goby. Now it's disappeared too. I have seen my sally who is pretty darn big these days swipe at fish before. I can find no trace and all is well except for this. All ph's etc have filters/sponges so no on got sucked up anything. If you stick the aquarium tongs in by the crab it attacks them. Is she killing these little fish?

 

[jarvis]

I would say it is likely. If you put a new fish in it is going through some stress and your sally lightfoot sees a easy target. I recently had to put mine in my overflow. I have seen him nip at my bubble coral and he will even attack my finger.

 

[michaeltx]

yeah sallys will go after smaller fish like those you posted espicaly if they are resting at the bottom or hiding like a lot of new additions will do until the get usta the suroundings. the sally will see it as a meal.
this is double true if its a larger one.
Mike

 

[jeo]

I wouldn't doubt it for a second...

 

[chinnyr]

I know what you are dealing with.Mine has gotten pretty big and my scooter and a green clown goby have recently disappeared.He probably found the scooter sleeping under the sand one night.I tried not to think that he was the culprit,but it is time to move him out.

 

[wrassecal]

Well, Sally is going back to the lfs. Meals are getting a little too expensive and I don't like my pets eating each other It molted last night. Probably getting too big for it's skin after the fish feasts.

 

[dreeves]

Wonder what steamed sally light foot legs taste like...

 

[wrassecal]

Not sure, but we've been saying "those legs are almost big enough to eat" around here lately

 

[daisy]

I had a sally for two years. Got it very small, and loved it -- it ate all the gunk! I had only bigger fish at the time. Once I added a file fish and a mandarine, and both of them disappeared within days. Just totally vanished. I figured they were decaying behind the rockwork -- never thought it was the sally. But water params were good...
Anyway, about 6 months ago I added six peppermint shrimp. Now the sally is gone. I had seen shrimp/sally skermishes, but figured sally was strong enough to hold its own... Guess not.

 

[wrassecal]

OMG! ate your fireshrimp. I've had my fireshrimp for a year and a half and my scarlet cleaners. When my fish had ich a while back, we could not get the sally to let go of the dead 3 inch long lawmower blennie. It was gross. I'm sure that fish had died in the night but, yuk!