I lost my ocellaris this morning

Ursula

Ursula

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When a first started up my tank a couple months ago, I started with b/g chromis. I lost several over the course of the next few weeks. I assumed they were doing each other in, because the two biggest were constantly acting like bullies. Of the 4 chromis that disappeared, I only found one body (in a sock). I had no hermits at the time.

I've had my ocellaris pair for over a month. The male was my favorite fish :cry: He was swimming around like crazy and eating well last night. This morning, he's just gone. I can't find him anywhere. I have a little ammonia spike this morning, which I assume is from him :cry: My other tank parameters are good and unchanged.

Should I start to consider that something nasty might be in my tank and consuming my fish? Only 15# of my LR was originally uncured. I have looked at it at night with a red light, and seen nothing. The only recent change to the tank is the addition of a cleaner shrimp. Those don't kill fish, do they?

What is my next step? Help!
 
Ive been following your progress when you where lossing cromis left and right. You should post your water param. as well as you maintenece and filtration. It might be a pred in the tank BUT It might also be something like air pockets in the sand or water params.
 
oh man, I'm sorry to hear that. Given the quick happening something might be in there but I'd tend to agree that it could be an air pocket. Have you inspected the dead for parasites?

I lost my first anemone (finally died yesterday) due to a torn foot and I'm just now starting to figure out where it came from. (peices of LR rubble left from crabs on the side of the tank he was on, a few are quite sharp!).

have you watched the tank at night with a night light or glo stick to see if anything nasty is crawling out?
 
I'm really sorry about your fish and know how frustrating it can be. I see you have a 180G- does it have overflows? My clown used to jump in those frequently.
 
I tested my params today, and they were they same that my LFS guy measured yesterday. He doesn't think it was the water quality.

Nitrite 0
Nitrate 10-50
Ammonia "trace" on his scale (less than 0.25 on my Salifert-color lighter than yesterday, so it looks like it's dropping)
sp grav 24
ph 8.2
temp 79

Everyone else is looking great today. I miss him :(

Yes, I have overflow boxes. The slits in them are definately wide enough for him to have slipped through. The clowns tend to "sleep" up in one corner near the gaps. Maybe he just had a lapse? :cry:

I'm going to try to mesh-off the slits. Has anyone heard of using gutter-guard to keep fish from slipping through? LFS guy says it would at least eliminate the possibility (so long as I watched for debris getting caught up in it) and would not affect my water quality?
 
Ursula said:
Yes, I have overflow boxes. The slits in them are definately wide enough for him to have slipped through. The clowns tend to "sleep" up in one corner near the gaps. Maybe he just had a lapse? :cry:

I'm going to try to mesh-off the slits. Has anyone heard of using gutter-guard to keep fish from slipping through? LFS guy says it would at least eliminate the possibility (so long as I watched for debris getting caught up in it) and would not affect my water quality?
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No it shouldn't affect your water quality. If you happen to notice debris on the mesh you can just syphon it off or manually remove it.

Did you check in your overflow boxes though? How about your sump? I'm not trying to give false hope but there is a possibility your clown could still be alive somewhere.
 
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