please help!

[blenny dude]

hi, i have a 75 gallon tank. i have a yellow tang a pigmy angel and 2 clowns. hte other day i was cleaning my tank from algae and i foudnt that my yellow tng was missing. i am very sad he was a great fish.
i have a 40 galln fuge and a 30 gal sump. do you know what is wrong
my nitrates are zero, ammonia nitrite it zero. my ph is at 8.3.
i feed him ( fed now) seaweed on a clip everyday fresh, garlic soaked formula one, and occasionaly roman lettuce. he was doing great until now. he did not have ich. he just dissapeared
wht do you think happned?

 

[snakes'n'fish]

There is a chance that when you were cleaning the tank he go spooked and has found a real good hiding place amongst the rocks.(If you have alot of rock.) How long has he been missing ? and when you were cleaning did you move any of the rock wark around ?

 

[killafins]

never assume a creature is dead until the body is found. Search around for him, he's gotta be there.

 

[logan15]

turn off the tank lights and see if he comes out or drop some of his fav food in that might help but if not check the rock

 

[azeritis]

Well I have had a chromis dissapear. The body was never recovered. But that would be weird for a larger fish

 

[dattong]

did you look around the tank, especially on the back? He might jump out in the worse case, hope he didn't

 

[blenny dude]

hi guys thanks for the help. he didn't jump out for sure, cause i checked everywhere around the tank.
he was in the tank about a half hour before i cleaned, thats the last tme i checked on the tank. i do have a lot of rock, 130 lbs. he might be hiding its been about 2 hours.
i hope he didnt die. ill check in my sump or refugium he might have gotten there some way from overflow or something.
thankz alot guyz!

 

[blenny dude]

I FOUND HIM!! LOL!!!
i'm so happy! you know what happened?!@
i'm thninking he swam towards the intake to the overflow, he then got sucked up into the sump! from there he swam into the fuge and had a food frenzy with my halimeda and caulerpa! lots of it is gone!lolz!
i'm happy thankz for ur concerns guys. he's a small bugger about 2 inches, is my tannk big enough for him, i've read many bad things about them in smaller tanks.
thankz!

 

[wrassecal]

Glad it turned out well, and makes a good story too! A 75 is big enough for a yellow tang. JMO