Lets see if Beth or anyone else can figure out what happend

[cartman101]

Well yesterday i loss a butterfly fish (if you haven't herd) and there was a big red scratch on his side and a bite out of his tail, doesn't look like a bite from a trigger. I have a small volitan lion, goldentail eel, damsel, and a niger trigger. Sorry no pics. Could lion stung the fish and then my eel come out to bite it? Just to all let you know, my eel has never touched a fish, hes the one who watches whats going on in the tank. The Butterfly was doing fine yesterday morning.

 

[beth]

There is no way of telling who caused this, but a good rule of thumb is not to try and keep delicate reef fish in with aggressive fish. There is a reason why there are "reef tanks" as opposed to "aggressive tanks".

 

[cartman101]

well, the butterfly was a christmas present and i didn't want to take it back, didn't want to hurt my dads feelings

 

[beth]

I understand....but. When my family wanted to give me live animals for a present, I always tell them, give me a gift certificate for the store, etc.....then you can have some real fun picking out an appropriate animal yourself.