Whats killing my fish ?

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

I have purchased 5 yellow cromis wrasses and all five have done missing in a 24 hour time frame . I have looked all over the floor around the tank and have not been able to find any remains .

I have in the tank

1 RBTA
1 flame angel
1 orange back angel
1 lawn mower blennie
1 cardinal
1 3 inch long purple lobster
a few emeral crabs and thats about it .

Anyone have any ideas ?

John

 

[tall_jason79]

overflows?

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

overflows?

No I have screens

I was watching the last one yesterday . He went behind the rocks and never came out .

One of these guys is taken them out just not sure which one

 

[rbnice1]

Emerald or lobster when its sleeping maybe?

 

[zt444a]

I missed a few fish for the longest, until the STONE CRAB got so big he couldn't hide anymore. Pulled him out and put him in a jar on the table outside on a 95 degree day. Was hoping for a slow and painful death for him.

Howie

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

Emerald or lobster when its sleeping maybe?

The last one went missing in the middle of the day . I am thinking the lobster myself

 

[El Diablo]

I have a large reef lobster that I have had for a couple years and he has never killed any fish. I would vote a stone crab or mantis shrimp. The mantis shrimp in a reef tank will get hungry enough that it would take a fish.

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

I have a large reef lobster that I have had for a couple years and he has never killed any fish. I would vote a stone crab or mantis shrimp. The mantis shrimp in a reef tank will get hungry enough that it would take a fish.

I'm not thinking a crab or mantis shrimp for two reasons . I have not added any rock to the tank and the tank has been up and running with the same rocks for about 10 years . I would think I would have seen or heard these two by now I think .


John

 

[gbecker]

I vote lobster......

 

[_E_]

What kind of lobster? Debelius? If so, I have one that is in my sump that has never touched anything. He was banished down there because I thought that he was eating softies in my tank. Turns out that it wasn't him. He has had multiple fish, hermits, and snails down there and hasn't even tried to be aggressive. I just leave him in the sump because that's the only place where I can see him on a regular basis.

 

[twizzlerman77]

My opinion is its more then likely the lobster.

 

[Nanook]

Feed the lobster better and maybe he will not eat the fish....IF, it is the lobster Lots of folks don't feed their inverts enough and then they eat what they can so they don't die of starvation.

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

Feed the lobster better and maybe he will not eat the fish....IF, it is the lobster Lots of folks don't feed their inverts enough and then they eat what they can so they don't die of starvation.

I do run a ULN system but I also feed very heavy every night and a whole shrimp once a week . The ones from schnucks that are on the stick you get like 6 for a dollar.

I could see one fish a day but 5 in 24 hours . I don't know maybe I will take everything out of the tank as far as fish and lobster go and then add wrasses again and see what happens . This time I will add two first .


John

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

Feed the lobster better and maybe he will not eat the fish....IF, it is the lobster Lots of folks don't feed their inverts enough and then they eat what they can so they don't die of starvation.

BTW you on a starvation kick today this is the second time you have said something about ULN system people not feeding enough today .

I seen your other post in the SPS forum today .

 

[Nanook]

Yeah, I am on a kick with that Pet peeve.

Oh, I wonder if they are just buried in the sand? I was thinking you lost one here and there, not all five in one day. Perhaps they are just hiding...wrasses do that at first.

 

[Nanook]

BTW, I didn't mean to put the starving inverts blame on you

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

Maybe but they were all out swimming together then the lights went out . The next morning there were 4 by the end of the day 0 were around . I will see tonight when I get home .

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

BTW, I didn't mean to put the starving inverts blame on you

No problem I agree with what your saying . There are a lot of people that just don't feed enough for what they have in their tanks . I am just not one of them ......

 

[babybull]

Might sound like a dumb answer but could they be buried on the sand or substrate? I had a wrasse that I did not see for 3 weeks after moving the tank when I bought it. Paul

 

[DARKSILENTTYPE]

Might sound like a dumb answer but could they be buried on the sand or substrate? I had a wrasse that I did not see for 3 weeks after moving the tank when I bought it. Paul

Maybe


Time will tell


I have a little sand in the tank very little but most of it is under the rock work