Fish: Disappeared

[PNOY]

Hi. One morning, my Banggai Cardinal just disappeared. My tank has a top cover. What could have happened?


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[TMRC Exotics]

Do you have a sump?

Is there a lot of rock where the decomposing body could be hid? Also any clean up crew to destroy the evidence?

 

[Sniperhank]

Can you tell us more about the tank, how long its been running and current parameters? How long have you had the fish?
I don't like being the bad news guy, which sometimes happens way too often, but these cardinals are always out in the open 'floaters'. If it is missing I would highly suspect it to be dead.

 

[Reefing Madness]

Fish could have died, and the hidden CUC removed him.

 

[PNOY]

Sniper, do you think my anemone might have swallowed it?


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[54seaweed]

I've had fish disappear in the past if it didn't jump out or get sucked up into he sump , it could have went behind the rocks and died , I've seen many people tear apart there tanks to find the body with no luck, 90% of the time if a fish dies behind a rock the clean up crew crabs snails worms ect will take care of it almost instantly ,
if I can't find a fish I assume 1 of 3 things , I don't stress over it any more just let nature take it's course ,
I refuse to rip apart my tank to find a stupid fish that most likely died and was eaten ,
because it's not worth the head ach ,
I have bought fish online to have one or 2 die off once in a while , the vendors want a pict of dead fish , I explain I'm not ripping my reef apart for a fish and take a picture of the tank showing why , if you deal with a good vendor they will understand , most of the vendors know me by name as I deal with them a lot over the years , I spend way too much money for them to deny me a credit for a dead fish , and a fish isn't worth loosing a good customer over , as a few vendors found out .
sorry I went off track a little

 

[coralbandit]

Sniper, do you think my anemone might have swallowed it?


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Cardinals are known to swim in nems just like clowns and some damsels!

 

[Sniperhank]

The anemone we keep have awful capture abilities. A healthy fish won't get caught by an anemone.
This is most likely simply a fish that died and was managed by the clean up crew. It is what we have them for to begin with.

 

[aaaaaalicia]

Banggais have nematocyst immunity like anemonefishes, I'm with everyone else on the crew cleaning up his body ?


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[TheyCallMeButch]

I had a Yellowhead Jawfish disappear under a rock. It wasn't weird for him to go under for a few days and then show himself again for food but after about a week I got suspicious and when I lifted the rock to verify, sure enough there was no body to be found. Now sure how it disappeared but I imagine some of the clean up crew got under there and cleaned him up.


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[Anovack]

I had a filefish disappear in my nano and overnight the bristle worms and hermits made it like it was never in the tank...


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[TheyCallMeButch]

Yeah, I just found a big bristle worm where I had lost mine and instantly realized this is who polished him off when he passed away.


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