The amazing houdini fish

[PeterEde]

I've now had 2 wrasse completely vanish.
Clearner wrasse vanished without trace.
And yesterday flasher wrasse.
I took the cover off for a few minutes and on return the fish was gone.
I searched high and low. Fish was nowhere to be found.

 

[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

Sorry to hear this.

Fish in our tank can die, and within a few minutes, gone because our CUC ate it.

With that being said, I have a few questions to ask you.

- What does your CUC consist of?
- Any aggressive fish?
- Did you have any live rock in your tank, if so, where did you get it from?
- Do you have any anemones in the tank?

 

[PeterEde]

This fish was fine. It stays near the top. Notorious for jumping.
If something ate it it did so in 10 minutes.

 

[PeterEde]

Yes there are 4 nems big enough and I did suspect that and still possible but flashers are not a bottom fish.
Still a mystery never to be solved.
I'll call it houdini or Amelia.

 

[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

This fish was fine. It stays near the top. Notorious for jumping.
If something ate it it did so in 10 minutes.

Yes - It's possible it could have jumped, I just expected you had a lid on your tank if you had a jumper.

Any animals in the house like a dog or cat?

 

[PeterEde]

Yes - It's possible it could have jumped, I just expected you had a lid on your tank if you had a jumper.

Any animals in the house like a dog or cat?

I do have a lid. I took it off to get a WaveMaker out to clean and forgot to put it back on.
I'd still expect to find the fish on the floor nearby.
No other animals inside

 

[Uncle99]

Maybe Houdini may mysteriously reappear like magic?
I wrote one off, found alive, 3 weeks or so later….
He’s either outside the tank, inside the tank, or now part of the nitrogen cycle…time should tell.

 

[WalkerLoves_TheOcean]

I do have a lid. I took it off to get a WaveMaker out to clean and forgot to put it back on.
I'd still expect to find the fish on the floor nearby.
No other animals inside

Yes - if you don't have any pets in your house, you should be able to find the fish on the ground.

Have you checked your sump yet if you have one?

Otherwise I would assume something ate it in the tank wether it was dead or alive.

 

[PeterEde]

Thanks for your thoughts. Houdini turned up today.

 

[VintageReefer]

Wrasses can burrow in sand, could have been spooked and hiding.

 

[Naekuh]

Yeah wrasses are like goby's.
Never write them off until you see a dead body or parts of it.

 

[Dburr1014]

My blue star leopard was buried for close to 6 months before showing up.

 

[PeterEde]

Wrasses can burrow in sand, could have been spooked and hiding.

Not flasher wrasse apparently. I thought it might have. Google says no