Did my green hadoni eat my magnificent foxface?

[bobpiker]

I've had my magnificent for about 2 weeks after quarantine in my 220. I've had a 12" neon hadoni, too, in there for a couple of months. Other than a diamond goby which seems to have disappeared that I chalked up to the nem I haven't lost anything else. All fish are at least 4". My magnificent was 4"+. Very healthy, the magnificent ate like a horse and got along with everyone else after a day or two of being chased by my powder blue. Yesterday, I couldn't find my magnificent anywhere and looked behind and around my tank a half dozen times to no avail. My hadoni appears to be bit closed up since yesterday and possibly a bit "chubby" near its base, so I'm almost ready to believe it got my magnificent. Is it possible for a 12" hadoni to get what I think is a pretty fast-swimming foxface, in good health, and actually swallow it up with the foxface being a third of the hadoni's size? It would seem the foxface would almost have to just lay down on the hadoni for this to happen.

Anyone with similar experiences where a more sizeable fish succumbed to an hadoni?

Maybe my magnificent got stung and has disappeared in my rocks.

 

[Pastey]

Give it 48 hours and check for a carcass. If the haddonni killed/consumed it, it will likely expel what it couldn't finish or digest. Large fish tend to get spit back out after a little while and you'll see a half-eaten fish in the sand bed. At least I did with both of my butterfly fish.

 

[dalilgriffith]

... More than likely.

 

[OrionN]

You are likely just see bone out in 2-3 days time frame.

 

[bobpiker]

Yesterday afternoon I did find what is left of the head of my 4+" magnificent foxface. It took less than 2 days for 90% of it to be consumed by a 12" haddoni.

 

[DasCamel]

Yesterday afternoon I did find what is left of the head of my 4+" magnificent foxface. It took less than 2 days for 90% of it to be consumed by a 12" haddoni.

Amazing how simple and efficient they care.