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Mysterious Clownfish Disapearances
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Your diagnoses seems to be based on fish deaths and hearing a clicking. You will have to either start to stock or wait until the clicking stops
Personally I think the problem is elsewhere...
chrissaysyes
Nereus
So you're going to get a wrasse? You should setup a camera on him...if he kills anything then it will be awesome footage, and if he dies you can see what's happening to your fish...
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1entra
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Yea but I hope the shrimp/crab dont knock the wrasse out like maywether did with hatton!
chrissaysyes
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Yea but I hope the shrimp/crab dont knock the wrasse out like maywether did with hatton!
Hah!
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I've decided on a new plan... As my aquarium has been opentop, there has always been a possibility that my past fish MAY have jumped out and some rodent or something may have had them and thats why they have disapeared, so I have made myself a DIY cover for the top of my tank which consists of an acrylic frame with plastic pond netting tied down to it and fits on the support brackets on the inside of my tank. Once in place no fish should be able to jump out of the tank top.
So hopefully tommorow I plan on going out and getting myself a green/blue chromis or 2 as they are quite cheap and are also reputed as being very hardy. I am going to place them/it in the tank knowing perfectly well that they/it will not be able to jump out of the tank and see how they/it get on.
I'm only planing on buying 2 as I have heard they will survive better if there is more than one as they are shoaling fish? What do you think 1, 2 or more??
If I do indeed have a predator in the tank then I expect one fish to go missing followed a few days later by the other and this will confirm my suspicions! If this is indeed the case then I will have to move onto my plan of getting a predatory wrasse eg. cory of dragon to help me elliminate the problem.
It may seem cruel that I am using live fish as bait but but I believe it is necessary to confirm that I do have a predatory shrimp/crab in my tank for my knowldege and also the chromis dont cost to much and so wouldnt be too big a financial loss and (hopefully) they wont just die on me!
Let me know your feedback and advice.
I will keep everybody updated
So hopefully tommorow I plan on going out and getting myself a green/blue chromis or 2 as they are quite cheap and are also reputed as being very hardy. I am going to place them/it in the tank knowing perfectly well that they/it will not be able to jump out of the tank and see how they/it get on.
I'm only planing on buying 2 as I have heard they will survive better if there is more than one as they are shoaling fish? What do you think 1, 2 or more??
If I do indeed have a predator in the tank then I expect one fish to go missing followed a few days later by the other and this will confirm my suspicions! If this is indeed the case then I will have to move onto my plan of getting a predatory wrasse eg. cory of dragon to help me elliminate the problem.
It may seem cruel that I am using live fish as bait but but I believe it is necessary to confirm that I do have a predatory shrimp/crab in my tank for my knowldege and also the chromis dont cost to much and so wouldnt be too big a financial loss and (hopefully) they wont just die on me!
Let me know your feedback and advice.
I will keep everybody updated
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chrissaysyes
Nereus
Totally a good idea. It's not cruel either, that's nature...kinda. I plan on feeding my mantis all sorts of stuff
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1entra
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Thanks guys. By the way do you think I should get young chromis or the biggest I can find?
chrissaysyes
Nereus
Well, I'd plan on the fish living...so get whichever suits your interests and tank the best. Maybe get young in the event that it's a predator so it will be more enticed by the smaller prey
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Well the time for the truce is finally here...
I went fish shopping today in the hope of getting some green chromis, but the LFS HAD SOLD OUT!! And as I didnt want the trip to be a complete waste, I end up buying myself a single yellowtail damsel instead as they are also the same price!
Once I got the damsel home I noticed its skin was really blotchy in places rather than the dark blue it was in the LFS but as I started to acclimatise it I noticed the whole body started to turn back to it normal colour. Is this normal?
I acclimatised it over a period of an hour and introduced it to my tank about 2hours ago and it immeditely disapeared into my rockwork and not seen it since until just now when the lights have gone off! I can see it in between some of my LR.
I have secured the top of my tank with the homemade tank cover so nothing can get out, it only has a room of about 10mm either side which I need to get the cables for my equipment out to the supply!
Now lets see how it goes. What do you think the odds are it will still be here tomorrow? How long do your wreckon it will survive?
I went fish shopping today in the hope of getting some green chromis, but the LFS HAD SOLD OUT!! And as I didnt want the trip to be a complete waste, I end up buying myself a single yellowtail damsel instead as they are also the same price!
Once I got the damsel home I noticed its skin was really blotchy in places rather than the dark blue it was in the LFS but as I started to acclimatise it I noticed the whole body started to turn back to it normal colour. Is this normal?
I acclimatised it over a period of an hour and introduced it to my tank about 2hours ago and it immeditely disapeared into my rockwork and not seen it since until just now when the lights have gone off! I can see it in between some of my LR.
I have secured the top of my tank with the homemade tank cover so nothing can get out, it only has a room of about 10mm either side which I need to get the cables for my equipment out to the supply!
Now lets see how it goes. What do you think the odds are it will still be here tomorrow? How long do your wreckon it will survive?
Saltwater fish often change color when stressed (aka dumped in a bag and sloshed around for a while ).
I'm gonna go with a week
).I'm gonna go with a week
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1entra
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Its still alive!!!!
Although it contines to dash into the rockwork and hide whne I enter the room, my damsel has survived its first night and is still alive... for now! I am very surprised as I heard some loud clicking last night coming from the tank and it really did sound like claws snapping rather than the tapping sound I have been hearing recently and thought the fish was a goner!
Although it contines to dash into the rockwork and hide whne I enter the room, my damsel has survived its first night and is still alive... for now! I am very surprised as I heard some loud clicking last night coming from the tank and it really did sound like claws snapping rather than the tapping sound I have been hearing recently and thought the fish was a goner!
chrissaysyes
Nereus
Dude are you sure there isnt a mouse living in your wall or one of those little snapping bugs trapped under the tank?
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