Fish are missing...Ideas?

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Originally Posted by Aquaholic

well I have a slight problem, and i think I know what it is but I would like to get some opinions.

So far in the last month and a half two months I "lost" some tank members the list of the poor souls are:

2 small tank raised perc clowns
2 medium maderins
1 medium gold stripe maroon clown
2 large emerald crabs

The current tank mates are:

1 gold stripe marron clown
2 larger 3 spot damsels
1 blue yellow tail damsel
1 medium long tenticaled anenome (gold stripe is hosting)
1 large 12+ inches across carpet anenome (3 spots are hosting)
some corals, mushrooms, zoos, sps, lps, chilli sponge ect.
2 cleaner shrimp
Pistol shrip and watchman gobie (living in bliss)

the tank itself is a 50 gal cube with about a 15 gal sump. All chemicals levels are in check, and everything that is alive is very healthy.

when these things go missing there are no bodies (except the emerald his shell was still around). I'm wanting to blame my large carpet anenome since there are no bodies but would the small clowns not have been able to get off of it? The time they last in the tank varies from 1-2 days to 1-2 weeks.

Thanks

Wow

I am shocked you haven't had more problems than you currently have. Two different species of anemones is a no no. Your bound to run into problems soon. Google it up! It's not good to keep two different species.. at least this is my understanding.

I can say that I am almost certain your carpet anemone is the culprit (AKA = Fish eaters) I am going to say it's your carpet.

Secondly, not to hound on you, but how did you manage to keep two mandarins in a 50g? Unless you have some crazy population of pods being produced, they would have died from starvation anyways. Unless of course they were on prepared foods.

Your clowns won't get eaten by the carpet (ok, there IS a chance) But anemones host clownfish.. and other damsels. This is why your clowns wont be eaten... because there is a symbiosis between the anemone and clownfish