Cant find the body a dead fish!!

[Jiggz]

aight guys this is kinda weird but my six line wrasse wasnt doing so good last night. he was breathing hard but my maroon clown and and diamond goby are doing good. i need to test my water to make sure nothing is up with it. but anyways i had a feeling that the six line was a goner and today i didnt see him ne where. so i took out some of my rocks and looked for him but i couldnt find him ne where. o yeah now my red lip blenny is missing. i looked on the floor and around the tank and nothing. so my question is, if the six line and red lip blenny is still in the tank some where will it cause an ammonia spike? the six line was around 2inches and the blenny around 4inches. i looked every where but cant find them. could my bristle worms have gone through them in a spand of one night? i've looked in my tank at night and seen a couple of bristle worms roaming around. i also have peanut worms in my tank.

 

[DMK]

i didn't read the entire thing, but in my 3 yr old 92, i must have had 4 or 5 fish die. all were MIA forever not unusual. lots of LR?

 

[Jiggz]

yeah i got a 50gal and about 64# LR. sorry for the long post.

 

[rich415]

I had a 2 1/2 inch goby die/disapear in my 37 gallon tank. I did have aslight amonia spike but nothing like the beginning cycle.

I did many water changes, fed every other day for a while, and wet skimmed. Everything didn't look perfect but I lost zero animals. I think within a week the hermits, bristle worms, and pods probably ate the whole body.

 

[mikenpam]

I think that a small fish could easily be consumed in an evening. I had a couple of chromis die without ever finding them and there were no side affects.

Maybe your blennie is just hiding as you disturbed the tank looking for your sixline.

 

[21Reefman]

I watched an anthias find a quiet spot to die. In the morning I could see all of the bones from him but, the carcus was completly gone, only bones. In about 7hrs. Chalk-up one, for the micro-organisms (copapods). Boy, they are efficient!

 

[BenH98]

I had a small (2") 6 line wrasse die on me (sad day ), but overnight my part of clean-up crew...about 4 blue legged hermits had consumed more than half of it! If you have more hermits than I do, I bet that it was eaten

 

[fish_taste_good]

I have lost a tang, a clown, and a few chromis in my tank and never found them in my 55 that has lots of LR.

I never saw a spike in anything.

When i upgraded to my 90 and removed all my old sand, I found fish bones.

Clean up crews work REALLY fast

 

[Alaskan Reefer]

If you have pods they will shred it very quickly. I use large herring to bait my recreational shrimp pots, and the "pods" down there pick them to the bone in a matter of a few hours. It's ridiculous.

 

[conda]

I had the same thing happen to my Coral Beauty. He was about 4" long and went MIA. All I ever found were some bones a few days later.

 

[Jiggz]

thanks for all the response. i think the worms in the tank got to the wrasse cuz at night i see some big bristle worms around 6inches. but i dont know about the blenny, this is day two and still no where to be found.

 

[BillnJennh]

I lost a small anthias overnight in a 20g completely. Apparently he expired and all the little buggies had an instant buffet. There was a tiny rise in amonia, but it only lasted for a couple days and things were back to normal.

 

[Jiggz]

i found the blenny it was underneath my scolymia. it was covered in mucus and when i took it out it was already have eaten. it looked like something took a fillet knife to it. i guess worms and pods in the tank is no joke. but the blenny will be missed. i think i might go with a bicolor blenny or midas blenny.

 

[liv4speed1]

Something also to consider to the people who have lost fish in this thread. I found my two cats were actually able to take down my two Onyx clowns. In a 10 gallon tank they jumped (a week apart) and the cats got the best of them. So it wasnt a matter of them being lost in the tank, and I also saw one of my cats walking around with it ><

So other animals in the house can take care of any jumpers. Sorry about your loss.