I am at wits end and Craigslist is looking more and more like a viable option. Right at 600 dollars in missing fish.
We assumed it was a predator crab. We found a menacing looking little fella. We removed it Wednesday.
This morning the last scissortail was missing.
I just pulled and inspected every rock out of the 180 except for the base rocks that are buried or partially buried in sand. I ran my hand around those feeling for holes, etc. Covered two lawn bags laid out.
Nada. Not as much as a dorsal fin or a missing leg.
I come in at 6 am and look with a flashlight. Nothing has been moving except for the nuisance crab, and those things that should be moving. (peppermint shrimp, snails, clownfish hosting the corner of the tank) There is no real pattern to this, we go to bed, wake up and see what's missing. Water parameters are monitored weekly and are as stable as the day is long for the last 5 weeks. (when I started monitoring them) We're down to a foxface, goldhead, clown, two firefish and two bluegreen chromis. All still juveniles.
180, 29 gallon sump, 4 gallon hang on refugium with chaeto and pods.
Anybody got any ideas? This was so relaxing before this started!!!
We assumed it was a predator crab. We found a menacing looking little fella. We removed it Wednesday.
This morning the last scissortail was missing.
I just pulled and inspected every rock out of the 180 except for the base rocks that are buried or partially buried in sand. I ran my hand around those feeling for holes, etc. Covered two lawn bags laid out.
Nada. Not as much as a dorsal fin or a missing leg.
I come in at 6 am and look with a flashlight. Nothing has been moving except for the nuisance crab, and those things that should be moving. (peppermint shrimp, snails, clownfish hosting the corner of the tank) There is no real pattern to this, we go to bed, wake up and see what's missing. Water parameters are monitored weekly and are as stable as the day is long for the last 5 weeks. (when I started monitoring them) We're down to a foxface, goldhead, clown, two firefish and two bluegreen chromis. All still juveniles.
180, 29 gallon sump, 4 gallon hang on refugium with chaeto and pods.
Anybody got any ideas? This was so relaxing before this started!!!