Please help - absolutely no idea what I’m doing wrong
Tank has been running for just over a year and doing well. All parameters ok - clowns, yellow tang, blue tang, fox face, peppermint shrimp, chromis all doing well (ie I know my tank is not an ammonia factory)
I added 2 Orchid dottyback - stunning looking fish - and not the cheapest thing in town - last weekend after a 3+ hour acclimation from LFS 1.08 to my 1.025
Not more than 60 seconds later I have 1 x orchid dottyback swimming happily mid tank and the other has vanished. Literally never seen again.
This weekend added a banana wrasse and some peppermint shrimp. Shrimp all good the next morning (so I know it’s not an acclimation problem) - but banana wrasse nowhere to be seen !
I’ve got a big list of things that aren’t the problem - but does anyone have any ideas ?
LFS suggesting that everything likely ok and that fish are likely hiding in the rock work - but it’s only a 4ft tank so not an infinite number of places to hide - and we’re not talking fish that would typically hide away long term….
Any ideas welcome ? I know this hobby isn’t supposed to be easy - but right now it feels that flushing my money down the toilet would at least be a more interesting story to tell one day !
Tank has been running for just over a year and doing well. All parameters ok - clowns, yellow tang, blue tang, fox face, peppermint shrimp, chromis all doing well (ie I know my tank is not an ammonia factory)
I added 2 Orchid dottyback - stunning looking fish - and not the cheapest thing in town - last weekend after a 3+ hour acclimation from LFS 1.08 to my 1.025
Not more than 60 seconds later I have 1 x orchid dottyback swimming happily mid tank and the other has vanished. Literally never seen again.
This weekend added a banana wrasse and some peppermint shrimp. Shrimp all good the next morning (so I know it’s not an acclimation problem) - but banana wrasse nowhere to be seen !
I’ve got a big list of things that aren’t the problem - but does anyone have any ideas ?
LFS suggesting that everything likely ok and that fish are likely hiding in the rock work - but it’s only a 4ft tank so not an infinite number of places to hide - and we’re not talking fish that would typically hide away long term….
Any ideas welcome ? I know this hobby isn’t supposed to be easy - but right now it feels that flushing my money down the toilet would at least be a more interesting story to tell one day !