stellablu
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I am at wits end over here...fish are disappearing, the culprit can be one of several things, and I am not having any luck figuring out who used what to kill whom in what room. Man, playing Clue was MUCH easier than keeping my fish alive!
Over the past few months I've had fish come up missing in my tank. All my perimeters check out fine and otherwise there aren't any issues with my tank at all. I figured some were bad stock, like a pink clown goby who lived in three of my tanks until one day showing up with tattered fins, then "disappearing." I also lost a pretty healthy firefish, rainsford goby and a copperband, then until last night the last fish I had lost was a clownfish. These were all fat and healthy fish with big appetites. Well, yesterday I ruled out it being a mantis, or assumed that it wasn't when I paid closer mind to the frequency of the snapping. I could be wrong, but I don't think a mantis would do something to tatter fins and leave the rest of the fish alone...
I bought a midas blenny and coral beauty yesterday. Both are healthy and active, although the CB was shy at first and hid in the rocks. Both were fatties. My royal gramma started stalking the midas who perched in a rock too close to his. He would literally follow him around the tank with his mouth wide open and snap at anyone getting in his way. This behavior leads me to think that this normally "peaceful" species has been getting overly territorial with the left side of the tank and being that all the fish who have died/disappeared were in the rockwork on that side, it seems to make sense to me that my gramma might have harrassed and possibly killed them.
Here's a list of the fish I have in my tank:
- False percula clown
- Tail Spot blenny
- Midas blenny
- Leopard wrasse
- Royal gramma
- Lyretail anthias
None of my fish display any aggressive behavior whatsoever. The gramma just swims around the back of the tank like a shark, really creepy personality.
Has anyone else had experience with a gramma turned bad? I am really going to hate trying to catch him and house him alone in my 12g since he has issues. I wouldn't want to give him to someone else and have the same thing happen to their tank, or trade him in and not know where he'd go and what damage he might do. I've lost $150 worth of fish over the past few months without any explanation, so I wouldn't want that to happen to someone else.
Here are a few pictures of the dead coral beauty, I DID manage to get ahold of his body before the nassarius cleaned up the mess. He was in the rockwork where the gramma's hole is located; he was partially lying in this massive aiptasia that was probably trying to make a morning snack out of him, but his body was still intact except for some tissue damage near his gills. Anyone recognize it as a bitemark, or anything else?
I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks.
Over the past few months I've had fish come up missing in my tank. All my perimeters check out fine and otherwise there aren't any issues with my tank at all. I figured some were bad stock, like a pink clown goby who lived in three of my tanks until one day showing up with tattered fins, then "disappearing." I also lost a pretty healthy firefish, rainsford goby and a copperband, then until last night the last fish I had lost was a clownfish. These were all fat and healthy fish with big appetites. Well, yesterday I ruled out it being a mantis, or assumed that it wasn't when I paid closer mind to the frequency of the snapping. I could be wrong, but I don't think a mantis would do something to tatter fins and leave the rest of the fish alone...
I bought a midas blenny and coral beauty yesterday. Both are healthy and active, although the CB was shy at first and hid in the rocks. Both were fatties. My royal gramma started stalking the midas who perched in a rock too close to his. He would literally follow him around the tank with his mouth wide open and snap at anyone getting in his way. This behavior leads me to think that this normally "peaceful" species has been getting overly territorial with the left side of the tank and being that all the fish who have died/disappeared were in the rockwork on that side, it seems to make sense to me that my gramma might have harrassed and possibly killed them.
Here's a list of the fish I have in my tank:
- False percula clown
- Tail Spot blenny
- Midas blenny
- Leopard wrasse
- Royal gramma
- Lyretail anthias
None of my fish display any aggressive behavior whatsoever. The gramma just swims around the back of the tank like a shark, really creepy personality.
Has anyone else had experience with a gramma turned bad? I am really going to hate trying to catch him and house him alone in my 12g since he has issues. I wouldn't want to give him to someone else and have the same thing happen to their tank, or trade him in and not know where he'd go and what damage he might do. I've lost $150 worth of fish over the past few months without any explanation, so I wouldn't want that to happen to someone else.
Here are a few pictures of the dead coral beauty, I DID manage to get ahold of his body before the nassarius cleaned up the mess. He was in the rockwork where the gramma's hole is located; he was partially lying in this massive aiptasia that was probably trying to make a morning snack out of him, but his body was still intact except for some tissue damage near his gills. Anyone recognize it as a bitemark, or anything else?
I'd appreciate any ideas. Thanks.
