Who killed them?

[fkdenton]

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a real life murder mystery on our hands here. Yesterday I noticed my yellow clown goby was missing. Today I discovered the body of my small green clown goby. Now the question, WHO DID IT.

The suspects.

1. Me- Poor water quality.
I dont think this is the case because all is doing great with the other fish and coral. I have lps easy sps and some softies and all are doing great. Sp 1.025, temp 79 havent done other test but they should be fine.

2. Large green clown goby
Twice the size of the other two, he is fine today. I have never seen him mess with the others though.

3. Somehow the RBTAs
The body of yellow clown has not been seen. But the greens body was not even close to them

4. Female Clown
Has been more aggresive lately but has never messed with the gobies. Recently beat the crap out of suspect five for getting close to her anemone.

5. Cherub Angel
Seems peacefull, recovering from butt-whuppin

6. 2 bangii cardinals
Have never bothered anything

7. 2 cleaner shrimp 1 pepermint shrimp
Peacefull

8. Hermit crabs and snails
Dont know how the crabs would catch 2 of them

9. Assrt Aggresive coral
Frogspawn and hammer

I am going to attempt to post a poll let me know who you think

Thanks
Floyd

 

[inwall75]

Sorry for your loss. When clown gobies or other small fish disappear, I recommend using the red lense over the flashlight trick at night to look for possible Eunicid worms.

There are also smaller species of Eunice, and these seem to be reported from time to time in aquaria. They generally appear to be harmless scavengers, however, even I, a self-proclaimed vermophile, would consider them amongst the "usual suspects" if some small fish such as fire fish or small gobies disappeared without a trace.

http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2003-04/rs/index.php

 

[fkdenton]

Intresting never thought of that. I did find one body but the other nothing

 

[Sk8r]

Cui bono? Unto whom the benefit?

Green gets the whole territory.
Female clown gets the whole territory.
Bangai cardinals? What territory?
Hermits---couldn't catch them for luv nor money.
Corals---they could sit in a hammer and wouldn't get stung that badly.

 

[bkh24]

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