disappearing fish

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  1. Reef Lover

    Reef Lover Sea Dragon

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    Someone ate my evansi anthias and my yellow tang, no trace of bones or anything. They just disappeared. What could be eating them?
     
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  3. amcarrig

    amcarrig Super Moderator

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    What have you got in the tank with them? What makes you think that they are being eaten? Can you provide a bit more information about your tank? How old it is, how it's set up, what the water parameters are, etc.?
     
  4. Reef Lover

    Reef Lover Sea Dragon

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    Alkalinity 120 pH 8.4 Nitrite 0 Nitrate 0 Ammonia 0
    My tank is about 3 years old, and I have mostly gobies, bicolorblenny, clown, lamarck's angelfish. Both fish are not there, no trace of them, not even a fin. I discover a few days ago black crabs and red crabs in my rock. I don't know if they ate both fish. I put on the moon lights last night, everyone went to their same resting spots, and this morning until now they're gone.
     
  5. Frizza

    Frizza Coral Banded Shrimp

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    How very bizzare! :p

    Is there hiding places like caves and stuff?
     
  6. Reef Lover

    Reef Lover Sea Dragon

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    I forgot to add a damsel that I've been trying to take out
     
  7. NUGIO

    NUGIO Corkscrew Tentacle Anemone

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    did you check behind the tank thats where mine ussually end up when they go missing :(
     
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  9. rickzter

    rickzter Torch Coral

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    I really trust this guy when he says he's searched endlessly. If something ate them, boy did they eat everything, talk about not wasting meat.

    Also, there is a possibility that they may have jumped out, is your tank topless? Look behind the tank, you may be surprised.
     
  10. Reef Lover

    Reef Lover Sea Dragon

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    I searched every were and nothing. I do have a glass top. I wonder if the crabs ate them, I had a clam and one morning he was gone to, just a shell.
     
  11. Reef Lover

    Reef Lover Sea Dragon

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    I moved my rocks around, looked in caves and nothing.
     
  12. ItalianNJ

    ItalianNJ Astrea Snail

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    Maybe they went to where that one missing sock seems to go when doing laundry?

    <GRIN> - Just kidding