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    Red face I think I "LOST" a fish

    Don't know how else to say this but I lost a fish, as in it is missing!
    I left for work yesterday morning and my 2 clowns were in the tank. Got home from work and I was missing a clown.
    This is in a 10G tank w/ only 6lbs of LR and a few soft corals and snails.
    There was nobody in the equipment, nothing around on the floor, and nothing among the rock work. This is so bizzare!!!!! I cannot find this fish anywhere!!
    Do these fish have any odd burying the behaviors???
    This could be a good episode for the X-Files.
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    CaptainK, any chance you may have a predator in your rock like a mantis srimp that could have taken out your fish??

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    did you check the floor behind the tank?

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    I had a fish get sucked into a powerhead...and didn't come back out. It took me a while to figure that one out. It was a 2" fish, too.

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    I had a Sally Lightfoot crab missing about a month ago. I didn't know where it went until maybe a few days afterwards. He/she got sucked into the pipe from my powerhead and then into the blue floss/carbon pad on the Eclipse system. All that was left were pieces of his legs. He must have gotten stuck in there.

    Hope you find out whre your fish is.

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    I checked EVERYWHERE!!! but no body, no nothing.
    Its as if I never had him/her.
    I am almost 99.99% sure that there are no "bad guys" in the tank that would take out this fish as dinner. Have had this set up for almost 8 months now and never had any problems like this.
    This is really driving me nuts!!
    -CaptK

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    Thanks for the info about the powerheads guys.
    I checked them out over the weekend and guess what I found [img]/ubb/frown.gif[/img]
    I lost my first saltwater fish!
    Well at least I have found the body....Good Bye Fishie

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    i lost an african rope fish that way, (it got sucked up prior to when he died, and i medicated him back to life, but i was too late that time [img]/ubb/frown.gif[/img]


 

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