Tailspot or Bicolor Blennies always disappear help?

Warpigdave · Feb 7, 2021

I keep buying Tailspot or Bicolor Blennies and they eventually end up missing. I love them but after a couple months they end up missing. I have recently lost my 4th one. Why do they always disappear?
I have a solid lid on my tank. I have 2 clowns, a shrimp goby, a pistol shrimp, a dwarf 6 line wrasse, a firetail goby, a royal gramma, and some emerald crabs.

Sam816 · Feb 7, 2021

your crabs prolly clean 'em up after they perish. next time put your blenny in an acclimation box. see if other fish react negatively towards it. also, make sure it is eating well. these fish are fragile.

Warpigdave · Feb 7, 2021

Sam816 said:
your crabs prolly clean 'em up after they perish. next time put your blenny in an acclimation box. see if other fish react negatively towards it. also, make sure it is eating well. these fish are fragile.

It acclimated very well. I had it for a couple months. It was eating food and algae. Always out in the front. Every one I owned was always active. One was even pecking at me when I cleaned the tank. But always after a couple months they will just disappear.

SebastianReefer · Feb 7, 2021

Do you have plenty of zooplankton for them to eat threwthe day

Sam816 · Feb 7, 2021

Warpigdave said:
It acclimated very well. I had it for a couple months. It was eating food and algae. Always out in the front. Every one I owned was always active. Then after a couple months they just disappeared.

similar thing happened with my bicolor blenny. it was eating well till the day i added a tomini tang. then it confined itself to a crevice. eating less n less till one day i found him on sand bed. as i said they are fragile.
6line and royal gramma can be bullies. on top of all this one snap from emerald crab can kill them.

Warpigdave · Feb 7, 2021

Sam816 said:
similar thing happened with my bicolor blenny. it was eating well till the day i added a tomini tang. then it confined itself to a crevice. eating less n less till one day i found him on sand bed. as i said they are fragile.
6line and royal gramma can be bullies. on top of all this one snap from emerald crab can kill them.

My royal gramma is the largest fish but by far not the most aggressive. My clowns are the aggressors if at all, but really I don’t see any fish being aggressive.