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

fishoholic · #1 01-15-2010, 01:36 AM

My Blonde naso tang (he's about 3-4 inches) that I have had since June 2009 (six months) who has always ate like a pig, always got along well with the other fish, and is always swimming around the tank front and centre is MISSING!!!!!!!

How does a healthy totally settled in tang go missing?????????

There is only two things I can think of #1 some rocks slid somehow (even though all the rocks look like they're in the same spots they've always been in) and he's trapped under one or #2 my cat who likes to sit on the centre brace somehow scooped him up and ate him. The later seems unlikely as I have never seen my cat stick her paws into the tank and I don't see any signs (like water on the centre brace or part of a fish body somewhere) of that having happened, but I just can't figure out why all of a sudden he would go missing.

He was totally healthy and young and all my other fish are fine (even my new flame angel I just got is swimming around, looking a bit shy, but fine) so I don't get it. Anyone ever had anything like this happen to them?

Here is a pic. of him taken a few weeks ago

Leah · #2 01-15-2010, 01:42 AM

Oh Laurie that is so sad, maybe he is just hiding.

#3 01-15-2010, 01:42 AM

Do you have A cat

the marine apprentice · #4 01-15-2010, 01:45 AM

did he possibly go over your overflow or in your sump. fish do the damndest things sometimes

fishoholic · #5 01-15-2010, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Trocar61

Do you have A cat

Yes (read through my original post) I was wondering if maybe somehow my cat got him but it seems unlikely that she would be able to actually catch a fast moving tang in a tank as large as mine.

fishoholic · #6 01-15-2010, 02:03 AM

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Originally Posted by Leah

Oh Laurie that is so sad, maybe he is just hiding.

That's what I'm hoping but I have no idea why he would suddenly hide. Also I know I haven't seen him today but I can't remember exactly when I last saw him. I don't think I saw him yesterday but I think I saw him the day before that but I really can't remember. I know this past weekend on Sunday I was staring at my tanks and I remember seeing him then, because I remember thinking how big he's gotten compared to when I first got him, but after that I'm not sure. I'm so used to always seeing him that it was really odd looking into my tank today and not seeing him. Came as a bit of a shock to say the least

I'm really paranoid that he's trapped somewhere (that happened to my sleeper goby, he was trapped for almost a week when we moved some rock around and much to our surprise he slowly swam out but unfortunately his injury's were to bad and he died a week later

) I just don't know what has happened to him and it's driving me nuts as well as worrying me like crazy.

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Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

did he possibly go over your overflow or in your sump. fish do the damndest things sometimes

Sorry, I forgot to mention (as that was my first thought) but I looked very carefully in my sump and there is no signs of him being in there. My overflow empties into my refugium part of the sump so it's safe from pumps etc. I have had fish go down my overflow into my sump but when that has happened I have always found them easily in my refugium.

Marlin65 · #7 01-15-2010, 02:03 AM

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 · #8 01-15-2010, 02:05 AM

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 · #9 01-15-2010, 02:11 AM

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

fishoholic · #10 01-15-2010, 02:15 AM

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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

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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.