Gone?!?! Forever?!?!

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  1. BorntoReef

    BorntoReef Fire Worm

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    Hey guys, my friend was over for a little bit, he's a hobbyist too, he's really into cichlids... off topic, lol... Well after he left I went to check on the fish and my firefish wasn't there, I stayed up until 12:30am taking out the live rock and looking in the live rock and stirring up the sand with a skewer to make sure he wasn't burried. My tank has a lid and I have a Clownfish and a Scooter Blenny (incase either of them ate it). I checked the wet/dry filter, and all around my tank! It's nowhere to be found... any suggestions? I'm just waiting to find a little fishy skeleton.
     
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  2. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    it may have been in a rock crevices, and didn't move when picked up the rock.

    ive had a couple fish stick in rocks, during switching tanks.
     
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  3. BorntoReef

    BorntoReef Fire Worm

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    i took the rocks out over the sink and looked in them with a flashlight. Did you know they're sometimes hollow? lol
     
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  4. sostoudt

    sostoudt Giant Squid

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    its more hollow it is the better live rock it is.
     
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  5. BorntoReef

    BorntoReef Fire Worm

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    oh wow! i never knew that!
     
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  6. cement_skis

    cement_skis Sea Dragon

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    I use to have a Firefish and went through the same thing you did, I pretty much gave up and went to bed. The Next morning, he was swimming around as if nothing happened. Sometimes, when they want to hide, they can hide REALLY well.
     
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  7. missionsix

    missionsix Super Moderator Staff Member

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    I wouldn't get after your tank like that when a fish has become a missing person. Especially a burrower. The risks outweigh the benefits by far.
     
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  8. salsalito25

    salsalito25 Stylophora

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    My current Fire fish does the same thing.. here today gone the next second... Best advise turn on your atinics if you haev them .. and put in a few flakes of food to get him to come out...

    Hope you find Him..!!
     
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  9. BorntoReef

    BorntoReef Fire Worm

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    nope, guys, i gave up, he's nowhere to be found, and i wish i'd known this before i tore my whole tank apart, i'm just gonna go with corals, they don't run away, well... not usually.
     
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  10. bbsbliss

    bbsbliss Ritteri Anemone

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    Maybe your friend kidnapped him??:yelrotflm
     
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