ACBlinky
Premium Member
Over the last week I've lost two perfectly healthy fish, and have no idea what's going on. The watchman goby, who was a very bold guy and ate hugely, and the longnosed hawk who seemed happy, always out hunting pods, cruising the water column at feeding time... they're just GONE.
I haven't lost any turbo snails, but I do seem to be missing blueleg hermits -- the large Hawaiian hermits (1" or so) are fine. I can't find either emerald crab, but they do both hide a lot.
I've got a bullseye pistol shrimp, and spot feed him regularly, would he kill fish or hermits? he used to hang out in the rocks, but has recently built himself a lovely little lair at the bottom of a large rock structure. He's an active little guy, always running around and we hear him snapping all the time, but he stays within an area smaller than a cubic foot; the fish have lived with him for ages, but I'm wondering if he's more of a predator than other, symbiotic pistols are? I know bullseye shrimp do occasionally pair with gobies, but not often.
The possibility of a hitchhiking predator is quite small - most of my rock was dry, only about 25lbs was live, and there weren't any huge pieces with deep holes where evil could lurk... I haven't seen anything larger than a stomatella or feather duster emerge from the LR.
There are some hydroids on one piece of LR, could they sting a perching hawk or goby?
Could a 3" mini carpet anemone sting a 2" fish? I know a maxi-mini couldn't consume something that large, but is it possible they were stunned if they tried to land on a nem?
I'm very sad to have lost these guys, and still have a tiny bit of hope that they're just hiding; they are small, and the tank is big with lots of rock, but they were just such 'in your face' fish I can't imagine them disappearing for days. Any thoughts?
I haven't lost any turbo snails, but I do seem to be missing blueleg hermits -- the large Hawaiian hermits (1" or so) are fine. I can't find either emerald crab, but they do both hide a lot.
I've got a bullseye pistol shrimp, and spot feed him regularly, would he kill fish or hermits? he used to hang out in the rocks, but has recently built himself a lovely little lair at the bottom of a large rock structure. He's an active little guy, always running around and we hear him snapping all the time, but he stays within an area smaller than a cubic foot; the fish have lived with him for ages, but I'm wondering if he's more of a predator than other, symbiotic pistols are? I know bullseye shrimp do occasionally pair with gobies, but not often.
The possibility of a hitchhiking predator is quite small - most of my rock was dry, only about 25lbs was live, and there weren't any huge pieces with deep holes where evil could lurk... I haven't seen anything larger than a stomatella or feather duster emerge from the LR.
There are some hydroids on one piece of LR, could they sting a perching hawk or goby?
Could a 3" mini carpet anemone sting a 2" fish? I know a maxi-mini couldn't consume something that large, but is it possible they were stunned if they tried to land on a nem?
I'm very sad to have lost these guys, and still have a tiny bit of hope that they're just hiding; they are small, and the tank is big with lots of rock, but they were just such 'in your face' fish I can't imagine them disappearing for days. Any thoughts?
