Suspect dead fish

[bobbyblank]

I havent seen my diamond goby for a day or so and started getting a little nervous. Thinking he might have some how parished, i ran a quick test on the water to spot any irregular params. My amonia has spiked to 1.2ppm with NO2 and NO3 still at 0, so im pretty sure i have lost my goby. How would you suggest removeing it? Tear the rockwork apart until i find the suspect fish or let the cleanup crew do the work for me? I have never lost a fish in a marine tank, just freshwater.

 

[kdblove_99]

Usally if the fish is big and i can see and net it i will remove it. but otherwise i let the clean up crew do its job

 

[bobbyblank]

It was around 3-4 inches

 

[bobbyblank]

UPDATE:

Well I figured i would look around a few pieces of "easy" to move rocks in the tank and still could not locate him, but after a routine sump cleaning, i found him clinging to life in the sump. He is very skinny after 3 days with no food so i hope he pulls through. Now i just have to figure out where the ammonia spike came from, i am guessing a snail or something.

 

[D&KSac]

how did it get down there Bobby? I had a clown go missing yesterday no corpse nothing on the ground around the tank, noting. Im begging to suspect aliens took him. =) I looked in the sump but didnt see him down there though the only way he could get down there is through my return and i dont think he would survive the trip through the pump.

 

[bobbyblank]

First he must have jumped into the overflow, then through the eggcrate protector, then through the return pipes, then jumped out of a 4x4x12 inch tall acrlyic box, then into the fuge..... Helluva trip, i hope he starts to eat and pulls out of it.

 

[D&KSac]

Man goodluck i just went and searched my sump for my little clown but nothing. Its so wierd he's just gone. Usually my clean up crew push out a corpse and show me but nothing. IDK.

 

[casalt]

I'm on my third, THEY JUMP OUT like crazy, my last one went thru 2 layers of eggcrate. The first one landed in the sump by accident , on his second flight he glued to the wall. I've got 3 layers of eggcrate to enclose the canopy now. This will be the new guys first night, still cant figure out what scares em' out. Good luck Bobby.