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I have a few questions today. Four of my fish have died, and I only know the reason for one of their deaths. The one identified death is a dojo loach with swam down all my tubing, through my bioballs in my wet dry trickle only to get stuck in the filter :(. There is another dojo who I have not...

I purchased an angelfish today and I picked one that had zebra coloration, IMO the nicest one in the tank. However he was probably at the bottom of the pecking order, his fins were chewed and he was very skittish. Should I return him or will he eventually recover? My more important question is...

My LFS accepts "fish that have outgrown your aquarium" so it wouldn't be a problem. However I may just get one so if the pair spawns they won't get territorial and beat up my other fish. It would also take a while for a pair to form because the angels they sell are quarter sized.

Thanks, I will get 5-6 juvies and get rid off all but one pair

I do not believe this to be true this is where I got that bit of info Edit: I did overestimate by a bit but you never know...

The dojo loaches get about a foot long but are very skinny. The dojo loaches in my tank are 4 inches long currently.

Tank stats 55 gallons 1 home made filter 1wet dry trickle filter Tank Mates 3 sailfin mollies 4 dojo loaches How many angels can I keep? Thanks In Advance Bo

GAH! I was looking around in my quarantine and I saw a mantis shrimp. O.o In the morning one of my fish was gone....... What do I do? The traps haven't worked and I didn't see witch rock it's burrow was in....

I have no fish currently in the tank. I will try starving the mantis. However If the mantis does not rear it's ugly head I'm thinking of getting a snowflake eel or octopus. And using the QT as the fishes permanent home.

So I am going to try the inverted bottle method, with some slightly freezer burned shrimp. Any other traps I should try?

Thank you for the fast replies, I love this forum! If they can come in on live rock from 6 months ago than yes that is a possibility Okay so if this is a mantis how do I trap it, will the glass jar method work? Do I have to camp out with net and flashlight?

Thank you for your replies, I will keep a look out and set some traps for a mantis shrimp. I can see how you would think it would be a mantis, something that only attacks my fish leaves my shrimp alone, but any ideas how it could have gotten in to my tank, I haven't introduced any live rock...

If it was a mantis why would it stop killing my fish when there was no power to the power head and the wet dry trickle filter?

Update: Due to a small wiring explosion only my protein skimmer is working O.o though nothing has happened to the chromis So it is either the wet dry trickle filter or the power head chopping my fish

Thank you for your replies I will watch to see if there is a mantis however I know that none of my known shrimp are mantis and could a mantis really chop a fish in half cleanly? Edit: I do hear clicking noises at night but i have a smaller tank with several tiny pistol shrimp that hitchhiked in.

I have had several deaths in the last few weeks with newly introduced blue green chromis after their bodies showed up perfectly severed as if by a blade I decided it had to be one of my shrimp after removing all my shrimp it continued. I have watched my tank at night no unknown hitch hikers or...

Thank You for the responses I will increase my water change frequency and remove the lava rock However the hitch hiker crab was removed after the second death Any other ideas on who killed my fish? EDIT: yes 1.25 was a typo and I am using a refractometer

I appreciate your responses however I believe you miss understood the question. The eel was dead long before the cromis got put in the tank. So I doubt the eel is the problem Any Other Ideas?

Just joined and wanted to say Hi! :D I made a post before this one so here it is PLZ respond with any ideas and a question....... Can you make posts on the Iphone app?

I have had some major problems keeping fish alive. I bought the tank 6 months old stocked with a raccoon butterfly fish a couple of tobies a 6 inch snow flake eel 2 marbled shrimp 2 coral banded shrimp and one mystery shrimp ( THE UN IDENTIFIED SHRIMP IS NOT A MANTIS). They were all killed by...