My healthy well established tang is missing?????? Any ideas?

[Marlin65]

I lost a 3"-4" trigger no trace checked all my rock overflow everything. No trigger I have a cat as well but I found bird **** next to the tank.
So cat or Bird.

[the marine apprentice]

this may be a long shot but can you look down your drain in the overflow? he may be stuck in there since he is that size

[kien]

cat jumps on tank, fish spooked, fish jumps out of tank, cat jumps down from tank, cat eats fish, fish missing.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by kien

cat jumps on tank, fish spooked, fish jumps out of tank, cat jumps down from tank, cat eats fish, fish missing.

My cat jumps on top of the tank all the time (my fish are pretty used to her) and it doesn't usually phase them. I can't see it spooking him but it's hard to say. However I will admit that I really don't want to think it's possible that my cat could of killed him

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Marlin65

I lost a 3"-4" trigger no trace checked all my rock overflow everything. No trigger I have a cat as well but I found bird **** next to the tank.
So cat or Bird.

Sorry to hear that

Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

this may be a long shot but can you look down your drain in the overflow? he may be stuck in there since he is that size

I have a small side overflow on that tank with a lot of long plumbing pipe before it gets to my sump, there is pretty good flow through it all but I'm going to shake some pipes right now just in case......Well I banged on and shook the plumbing pipes (I heard the water slosh around inside) but no fish came out into the refugium.

[Zoaelite]

My Canary wrasses mate has been gone for 3 days now, perhaps there's a fish convention going on that we don't know about. Hope he comes out of hiding for you Laurie Naso's always have the best personalities!

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by zoaElite

My Canary wrasses mate has been gone for 3 days now, perhaps there's a fish convention going on that we don't know about. Hope he comes out of hiding for you Laurie Naso's always have the best personalities!

Thank-you, hummm maybe there's something to this fish convention I've had wrasses hide on me for weeks at a time so don't give up hope yet, they are very good hidders. Never heard of a naso hiding before though. He is an awesome fish I'm really worried about him and I'm hoping he's ok.

[PoonTang]

Any possibability that he surfed to somewhere? he could easily travel up to 10 feet if no one was around when it happened. Get out a flashlight and look under everything and then start looking into all the little nooks and crannies in your LR, you may be able to see a piece of him stuck somewhere in the rocks.

[Delphinus]

I thought I lost my trigger on the weekend. I checked my overflows 10 times and each time I fully convinced myself "there are no fish in here." Guess where he was? They are the darndest good hiders/camoflagers sometimes. Also second the suggestion to check your pipes and so on. You never know.

Good luck, I hope you find him.

It's not impossible about the cat theory, but fwiw, I kind of doubt it too. There'd be some evidence, they're not exactly the cleanest/neatest of eaters when they're eating a whole animal.

[Leah]

Laurie,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Sookie may not only have killed him but she probably ate it too. Bad Kitty!