mpyers
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I have a 55gal. With two clownfish, a yellow tang, a yellow watchman goby, a peppermint shrimp, a purple clawed daumi lobster, an assortment of very small crabs and snails, and one larger suspect crab; a white spotted hermit.
The clownfish is easily 2inches long, and the goby was probably 2 1/2".
One of the clownfish and the goby are gone!
I looked everywhere, I flipped all the rocks. Tore apart all the filters, checked in the skimmer, looked all over the floor to see if they jumped. They are nowhere to be found. I can find no evidence of them or a body. They vanished.
My only conclusion was that they were eaten. But they would have had to been completely eaten in 24 hours. I would have noticed yesterday if they were gone. (Possibly not the goby.) But certainly the clownfish. I only have 3 fish that swim around! I knew that eventually the crab would get too big (they grow up to 10 inches.) and that I would have to move him to the sump or get rid of him. My plan was to put him in a sump when I got one. (I literally bought a drilled 65 gallon with a 35 gallon sump TODAY to replace my sumpless un-drilled 55gal). He was going in the sump tomorrow.
He can't be any bigger than an inch and a half. I've seen him out of his shell when he got the shell stuck in between two rocks and crawled out to get it un-stuck. I can't imagine that he would be able to consume a clownfish and a goby in a day. Even with help from the other crabs, shrimp, and lobster. I can't imagine that all of the biomass in the tank could dispose of two bodies that size that quickly at all. There has been nori on a clip non-stop. I have been overfeeding lately because the yellow tang is very skinny, and not eating well. There is also a zuchini that has been bobbing around the bottom of the tank that I've seen every animal pick at. So its not like they're starving.
I can't even imagine that anything in there could catch them?
I don't think that even if they just died of disease then got stuck to a powerhead or the skimmer pump that they could have been tore apart quick enough to be decomposed. There would surely be a corpse right?
Please lend me some insight. What happened? How do I prevent it from happening again?
The clownfish is easily 2inches long, and the goby was probably 2 1/2".
One of the clownfish and the goby are gone!
I looked everywhere, I flipped all the rocks. Tore apart all the filters, checked in the skimmer, looked all over the floor to see if they jumped. They are nowhere to be found. I can find no evidence of them or a body. They vanished.
My only conclusion was that they were eaten. But they would have had to been completely eaten in 24 hours. I would have noticed yesterday if they were gone. (Possibly not the goby.) But certainly the clownfish. I only have 3 fish that swim around! I knew that eventually the crab would get too big (they grow up to 10 inches.) and that I would have to move him to the sump or get rid of him. My plan was to put him in a sump when I got one. (I literally bought a drilled 65 gallon with a 35 gallon sump TODAY to replace my sumpless un-drilled 55gal). He was going in the sump tomorrow.
He can't be any bigger than an inch and a half. I've seen him out of his shell when he got the shell stuck in between two rocks and crawled out to get it un-stuck. I can't imagine that he would be able to consume a clownfish and a goby in a day. Even with help from the other crabs, shrimp, and lobster. I can't imagine that all of the biomass in the tank could dispose of two bodies that size that quickly at all. There has been nori on a clip non-stop. I have been overfeeding lately because the yellow tang is very skinny, and not eating well. There is also a zuchini that has been bobbing around the bottom of the tank that I've seen every animal pick at. So its not like they're starving.
I can't even imagine that anything in there could catch them?
I don't think that even if they just died of disease then got stuck to a powerhead or the skimmer pump that they could have been tore apart quick enough to be decomposed. There would surely be a corpse right?
Please lend me some insight. What happened? How do I prevent it from happening again?
