Squirrel_reefer
Call me Squirrel
I've been losing some fish lately to and I believe I found the suspect....
It all started last week when I noticed one of my two yellow tailed blue Damsels had a wound to his tail. I originally placed the two Damsels in the tank as cycling fish and I decided to let them stay awhile and enjoy my new 55g tank.
One morning while checking in on the fishies I noticed that his wound had gotten worse and about 80% of his tail had been eaten off :( I had seen the other Damsel nipping at him but I wrote it off as a territorial dispute. I watched him struggle to swim around and finally I made the choice to flush him rather than see him suffer. The prime suspect was the other blue Damsel.
Now about a week later (today), I found my purple firefish dead in the sand bed! massive chunk out of his tail. Needless to say I was quite upset, as he was my favorite. I hadnt seen him in the water column for a few days. However i added a yellow tang to the group about the same time and i figured his large body size had intimidated the purple firefish into hiding. Here's the damage to the Purple...
Now these deaths have sparked my thinking on another controversial disappearance...my small wheeler goby, in the interim of all this chaos my wheeler goby was MIA for about a week. one day I found him in my overflow box! (scary, but I have a glass lid) he was very small but not very frightened of other livestock. I tossed him back in the tank and havent seen him since. Now I wrote off his disappearance, figuring he jumped out of the tank and wound up in my cats mouth. now.... im not so certain.
Here's a list of live stock in my tank:
Regal tang
Yellow tang
Flame hawk
Blue Damsel
Electric blue hermit
Halloween Hermit
2 scarlets
(none big enough to eat a fish IMO)
All my rock work was dry rock, and I have not added any live rock to the system and I put in 3 frags, a GSP and 2 xenia, all properly QT'd so Im 99.99% sure its not a hitchhiking predator
It all started last week when I noticed one of my two yellow tailed blue Damsels had a wound to his tail. I originally placed the two Damsels in the tank as cycling fish and I decided to let them stay awhile and enjoy my new 55g tank.
One morning while checking in on the fishies I noticed that his wound had gotten worse and about 80% of his tail had been eaten off :( I had seen the other Damsel nipping at him but I wrote it off as a territorial dispute. I watched him struggle to swim around and finally I made the choice to flush him rather than see him suffer. The prime suspect was the other blue Damsel.
Now about a week later (today), I found my purple firefish dead in the sand bed! massive chunk out of his tail. Needless to say I was quite upset, as he was my favorite. I hadnt seen him in the water column for a few days. However i added a yellow tang to the group about the same time and i figured his large body size had intimidated the purple firefish into hiding. Here's the damage to the Purple...
Now these deaths have sparked my thinking on another controversial disappearance...my small wheeler goby, in the interim of all this chaos my wheeler goby was MIA for about a week. one day I found him in my overflow box! (scary, but I have a glass lid) he was very small but not very frightened of other livestock. I tossed him back in the tank and havent seen him since. Now I wrote off his disappearance, figuring he jumped out of the tank and wound up in my cats mouth. now.... im not so certain.
Here's a list of live stock in my tank:
Regal tang
Yellow tang
Flame hawk
Blue Damsel
Electric blue hermit
Halloween Hermit
2 scarlets
(none big enough to eat a fish IMO)
All my rock work was dry rock, and I have not added any live rock to the system and I put in 3 frags, a GSP and 2 xenia, all properly QT'd so Im 99.99% sure its not a hitchhiking predator
