Berghias Vanished

[DHill6]

I added 6 very small Berghia, all vanished without a trace. Next I added 8 high flow smaller size berghia, again vanished but ate one astapia. I just ordered one xtra large and 3 large berghia hopefully they won’t vanish. Rock is all Tonga branch, holes for them to crawl into. BB tank, I searched under everything and no Berghia. They’re not in the sump, no crabs or shrimp in tank. One clown, one court jester , one Mandarin and Trochius snails. The rock was dry before it was used in tank. Any ideas where these guys went?

 

[KrisReef]

They are good at hiding, ime, and seem to be tasty to hunting fish (Mandarin looking happier or fatter? )

 

[DHill6]

Mandarin looks the same. Granted the first two sets were small.

 

[shakacuz]

totally unrelated, but my lettuce nudibranchs are good at blending in. perhaps your berghias are the same. try to poke around during lights out

 

[dennis romano]

I had the same thing happen. I bought two orders and only one aiptasia disappeared. I read on R2R that small brittle stars eat the berghia and I have a lot of them.

 

[DHill6]

Order #3 arrived. Larger sized berghia. After acclimating I placed 4 of them in area of astapia, 2-3” away from them. They all went away from the astapia. One hour after they were set free in tank I still saw them. Now I don’t see any, I don’t have brittle stars, worms. I don’t get it. Three were .75” and one was XXL.

 

[DHill6]

I use a red flashlight to check during pm hours.

 

[mdb_talon]

They are very good at hiding as others said. I keep 7 in a small lunchmeat tupperware container and at times have trouble finding them all even though I only keep a few frags in there at a time!

 

[Manose]

I saw my first one today after 3 months so yea it can take time