tell me something...are these fish little killers?Two fish have vanished from my tank.a baby bluehead wrasse and a baby puddingwife.I cant figure this out.the squirrelfishes belly is looking big!He is a longspine squirrel by the way....
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These only really prey on small crustaceans, certainly not other fish...
What else is in the tank??
What else is in the tank??
3 bluehead wrasse,sergent major,blennie a trippy looking starfish and thats pretty well it.I also have five large brittlestars in the sand.few hermit crabs
Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!
Umm seeing a we're talking about wrasses, are you absolutely sure they haven't jumped. Does the tank have a cover??
as far as the starfish goes.......I dont know,the brittle stars....couldnt tell you.there are no bodies to be found aswell
I would guess, that one of your stars are the culprit here....the reason i asked about the colors is that a lot of stars are very predacious, especially green brittle stars, and they would easily take out a big'ish fish for an average size brittle....and again, the normal star, there are a lot of predacious ones commonly available....thats what i suspect has happened.
I live in bermuda,Ive collected theses myself.the brittles are all brown with a little design on them.the starfish has 7 arms hes white and purple with little brown tufts coming off little blue spikes on his body.he did eat some shrimp,but this has just happened in the last 2 days...hmmmm
Catpicklesdog
Hindsight is a wonderful thing!