Woke up this morning to find my Tomini dead. It was alive when I went to bed. It was added nearly a month ago, and seemed to be alive and mostly well until now. No obvious cause of death to me. It did have these odd spots on its side, but I couldn't tell what, if anything they were, and nothing spread to my other fish. I had seen it graze in the rock and eat nori as well.
My working guess is one of the other fish decided to kill it, for whatever reason, as it's the most peaceful fish in the tank. It's tank mates were a Dwarf lionfish, marine betta, flame hawkfish, lemonpeel angel, cleaner wrasse, and a greyfaced eel. I never witnessed any open hostility, but I also am not watching the tank most of the time.
When I found it, it looked as though the scales had been stripped off, don't know if that happened before or after death.
This is my first fish casualty, so I am a little worried about this.
My working guess is one of the other fish decided to kill it, for whatever reason, as it's the most peaceful fish in the tank. It's tank mates were a Dwarf lionfish, marine betta, flame hawkfish, lemonpeel angel, cleaner wrasse, and a greyfaced eel. I never witnessed any open hostility, but I also am not watching the tank most of the time.
When I found it, it looked as though the scales had been stripped off, don't know if that happened before or after death.
This is my first fish casualty, so I am a little worried about this.