Causes of death

[Cyproz]

Ok just came home from work and found my Halloween hermit munching on my starry blenny dead. He did later drop the body and forget it.
Now all my levels are fine and ive been feeding bits of Rods food daily.
The only things i can think of is my copepod population is low and the blenny starved to death because he wasn't eating the food. I never could see if he was eating it or not cause he was a hider.
Other option is the tankmates/suspects.
Lots of blue legged hermits(tiny)
one halloween(large)
one peppermint shrimp(newest tankmate)
conch snail
5-8 cleaner snails
diamond watchmen(never had an issue in the past 3 months with this guy and starry)

yellow watchmen goby (never had issues and been together.)
pistol shrimp
duncan coral, hammer ,zoa

SO what could it have been........
hard to imagine the slow hermit got to him, the starry blenny was fast

 

[Deinonych]

Starry blennies are herbivores - was there adequate algae available for it to eat?

 

[Cyproz]

like hair algae and coraline growth ya. plus there is algaes in the rods food

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[ThRoewer]

Hair algae may or may not be nutritional food for blennies. Coralline algae surely is not.
In general algae eating reef blennies prefer film algae like what you have growing on your front glass of your tank.

 

[lespaul339]

In general algae eating reef blennies prefer film algae like what you have growing on your front glass of your tank.

This.

 

[Cyproz]

o i dont know if i get much of that. guess ill hold off on a blenny for a while until i see some. i thought they ate regular food. damn i liked that starry blenny

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