Tomato Clown fish missing...

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  1. Beautemps

    Beautemps Bristle Worm

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    Hi,
    My tomato Clown fish that wasn’t feeling well last night is gone missing and I tried to look in every holes of my LR, but don’t see it. I am scare it is going to rot somewhere there. It was a good size fish about 2 inches long, so I am really scare to have a ammonia pick and lose all my corals.
    My tank is an 120 gls, with skimmer, DSB, cheato, 150lbs of LR.
    What should I do?
    Thanks
     
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  3. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    How strong is your CUC? With that big a tank, I think you will be ok as long as you have a good number of crabs and shrimp in there.
     
  4. Beautemps

    Beautemps Bristle Worm

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    I have 3 hermit crabs, 10 turbo snails, 10 nassarius snails, 1 scarlet skunk cleaner shrimp and 4 porcelaine crabs...
     
  5. mikejrice

    mikejrice 3reef Affiliate

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    I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've lost several fish in my 30 gallon that I never found. I never saw any kind of spike from it. Just keep an eye on things and do some small water changes if you have to.
     
  6. Beautemps

    Beautemps Bristle Worm

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    Thank you and sorry for your loss.
     
  7. s10lowrider1994

    s10lowrider1994 Feather Duster

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    Should be just fine if its dead in there somewhere. A fish that small will quickly be taken care of by scavengers. We've had a couple die in the tank with no ammonia spike and even had one jump to his death on the carpet. Not to long ago we lost a beautiful pair of Tomato clowns to clownfish disease, sorry for the loss.
     
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  9. Yellow Tang

    Yellow Tang Bubble Tip Anemone

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    Do you have an overflow box
    sorry