MISSING!: Psychedelic mandarin fish

hecks220 · #1 02-23-2009, 09:10 PM

I've had a psychedelic fish now for two years in my reef system. Lots of natural food for him to eat. He has now been missing for a week. Anybody ever had this happen. I worry he got killed by a rock crab that I can't find. Is this possible? And where is his body?

Murminator · #2 02-23-2009, 09:16 PM

Depends how big your tanks in my 90 sometimes I don't see him for more than a month

wickedfrags · #3 02-23-2009, 09:28 PM

Did you recently add a new fish that would compete with its food source?

Whatigot · #4 02-23-2009, 09:34 PM

any nems or big mushrooms?

hecks220 · #5 02-24-2009, 05:36 AM

I didn't add any new fish. But I do have anenomes and some mushrooms....lots of copepods everywhere. I'm sure i would have seen some of his body, if the nems or mush ate him. He's in a 65 so i dunno...

nanoreefer · #6 02-24-2009, 08:21 AM

check your overflows and around the tank i have lost a couple mandarins to jumping, but i have also had them just disapear no body, no spike in anything and it was a much smaller tank

Whatigot · #7 02-24-2009, 02:57 PM

depending on the size of the nems or if you have a rhodactis mushroom, you might never see a body.

Nems are a natural predator for these fish.

digital-audiophile · #8 02-24-2009, 02:59 PM

When I lose a fish it is very rare that I find a corpse. Typically my CUC strips them bare.