I have a year old 140 gallon aquarium that is stocked with a Kole Tang, two clown fish, lawnmower blenny, fairy wrasse and two pistol shrimp. My fairy wrasse randomly disappeared around 3 weeks ago. I have an extremely tight fitting lid with 0 way it could of jumped so I knew there's no way it jumped out, but I couldn't find it in the tank anywhere. It always hung out near the top or picking at rocks.
I had accepted it's fate until today... I was doing my daily routine of feeding and looking around the tank. There are a ton of holes going underneath the rocks from the pistol shrimp and I see my fairy wrasse barely poking it's head out of tunnel. I thought he was dead and grabbed my long tweezers to pull him out. As soon as I was close to his head he zoomed out of the hole, swam around the tank really fast for about 15 seconds, then disappeared into another hole. This was a few hours ago and he's still MIA.
His colors looked good and he seemed healthy. This doesn't seem like usual behavior though. Is it possible there's some sort of parasite making him act weird or maybe the tang is scaring it? The other fish have been perfectly normal.
I had accepted it's fate until today... I was doing my daily routine of feeding and looking around the tank. There are a ton of holes going underneath the rocks from the pistol shrimp and I see my fairy wrasse barely poking it's head out of tunnel. I thought he was dead and grabbed my long tweezers to pull him out. As soon as I was close to his head he zoomed out of the hole, swam around the tank really fast for about 15 seconds, then disappeared into another hole. This was a few hours ago and he's still MIA.
His colors looked good and he seemed healthy. This doesn't seem like usual behavior though. Is it possible there's some sort of parasite making him act weird or maybe the tang is scaring it? The other fish have been perfectly normal.