Squibege
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Around midnight I was looking at the tank with some red light to check out the night time critters (found a small crab that's now on my hit list). I swear both of my cardinals were swimming around then...
Fast forward to ~11am and I can only see one of them. Looked all over the tank, nothing. Checked over flow and sump, nothing. Checked all around tank to see if he jumped, no fish or water spot to be seen (I do have a cat). Fed the tank, turkey basted the rocks. Zero sign of anything dead or alive. Yesterday I found a peppermint shrimp that had gone to the big tank in the sky and there was two nassarius snails and a hermit around. This morning there is no such aggregation of critters. You think I would be able to at least find a carcas...
Tank info:
-Standard 90G that was set up ~2months ago
-2 small bangaii cardinals (1.5in from nose to tip of tail), and 1 purple firefish so far
- CUC of 5 scarlet hermits, 4 nassarius snails, hitchhiker brittle starfish, bristle worms.
-4turbo snails, small blue tuxedo urchin, hitchhiker snails
-several corals including a plate/fungai and an open brain which I don't think look like they've eaten a big meal
-tank is usually covered with an eggcrate top, but it's currently off since I've been re-scaping
Parameters as of this morning;
Ammonia: ~0.25 (I'm going to slowly add a half dose of prime to combat this. Yes it's zero most of the time and before I've added things)
Nitrite: I added prime to the tank before trying to test so figure the results will be affected. It's been zero since cycling.
Nitrate: ~5
^API kit. Hence it being approximate
Salinity: 1.024-1.025 with refractometer calibrated to zero. I've adjusted my ATO sensor a bit lower to raise it a smidge.
Is there anything I missing here? Think he's actually gone?? If so he/she is my first fish loss [emoji29]
Fast forward to ~11am and I can only see one of them. Looked all over the tank, nothing. Checked over flow and sump, nothing. Checked all around tank to see if he jumped, no fish or water spot to be seen (I do have a cat). Fed the tank, turkey basted the rocks. Zero sign of anything dead or alive. Yesterday I found a peppermint shrimp that had gone to the big tank in the sky and there was two nassarius snails and a hermit around. This morning there is no such aggregation of critters. You think I would be able to at least find a carcas...
Tank info:
-Standard 90G that was set up ~2months ago
-2 small bangaii cardinals (1.5in from nose to tip of tail), and 1 purple firefish so far
- CUC of 5 scarlet hermits, 4 nassarius snails, hitchhiker brittle starfish, bristle worms.
-4turbo snails, small blue tuxedo urchin, hitchhiker snails
-several corals including a plate/fungai and an open brain which I don't think look like they've eaten a big meal
-tank is usually covered with an eggcrate top, but it's currently off since I've been re-scaping
Parameters as of this morning;
Ammonia: ~0.25 (I'm going to slowly add a half dose of prime to combat this. Yes it's zero most of the time and before I've added things)
Nitrite: I added prime to the tank before trying to test so figure the results will be affected. It's been zero since cycling.
Nitrate: ~5
^API kit. Hence it being approximate
Salinity: 1.024-1.025 with refractometer calibrated to zero. I've adjusted my ATO sensor a bit lower to raise it a smidge.
Is there anything I missing here? Think he's actually gone?? If so he/she is my first fish loss [emoji29]
