My tank has gone haywire! All of the below is not normal but been happening this past month:
1. Tonight, I came home to my firefish half eaten! He is still alive and has literally 2 chunks of his rear body eaten. Poor guy is still swimming upright but rests on top of the rocks. Hermits don't eat fish that are alive do they?
2. My royal gramma won't come out of his hole (bed) for like 3 weeks now. Not even at feeding time. But I have seen him out once and he still looks plump.
3. My yellow tang keeps swimming up to my dispar anthias and acts like they are going to clean him? Like a cleaner shrimp would?
4. My yellow and hippo tang used to love nori like it's candy. Now they look at it like it's a foreign object.
5. Last night my hippo tang acted like he wanted to jump out of the tank if he could. I have eggcrate over the tank, but like 30 minutes after the lights went out. He went ape-sh*t and splashed water everywhere. He even pooped out of the tank onto the floor! My hubby and I were in different rooms and both came over to see the tank. I turned the room lights on and the hippo was upside down on the surface back towards the rocks. And he wasn't moving. We thought that he was dead-maybe hit the eggcrate so hard. I poked him. And he started swimming around. He's fine today.
6. My 4 year old Potter's Angel is completely missing. No body, yet. It's been 2 weeks. I checked the overflows. Nothing. That is very stange.
7. My yellow coris wrasse, anthias, and firefish have completely freaked out and spasmed in the middle of the water. Not hiding, but literally complete somersaults for 10 seconds when I put my hand near them in the tank. They ususally just scoot over to the other side of the tank.
What is going on??????? Is there a predator in my tank????
I've had the 120gal for 4 years, moved the tank twice, so I would be shocked if that is the case.
These are my inhabitants:
Yellow Tang
Hippo Tang
Firefish
Dispar Anthias
Flame Hawkfish
Pajama Cardinal
Yellow Wrasse
Ocellaris Clownfish
Green Chromis
Royal Gramma
Cherub Angel
Handful of Scarlet Hermits
Green Bubble Tip
Couple of Snails
Orange Starfish
All of the coral look normal. I don't hear any clicking sounds-no mantis. What could it be? Could it be the Flame Hawkfish?
1. Tonight, I came home to my firefish half eaten! He is still alive and has literally 2 chunks of his rear body eaten. Poor guy is still swimming upright but rests on top of the rocks. Hermits don't eat fish that are alive do they?
2. My royal gramma won't come out of his hole (bed) for like 3 weeks now. Not even at feeding time. But I have seen him out once and he still looks plump.
3. My yellow tang keeps swimming up to my dispar anthias and acts like they are going to clean him? Like a cleaner shrimp would?
4. My yellow and hippo tang used to love nori like it's candy. Now they look at it like it's a foreign object.
5. Last night my hippo tang acted like he wanted to jump out of the tank if he could. I have eggcrate over the tank, but like 30 minutes after the lights went out. He went ape-sh*t and splashed water everywhere. He even pooped out of the tank onto the floor! My hubby and I were in different rooms and both came over to see the tank. I turned the room lights on and the hippo was upside down on the surface back towards the rocks. And he wasn't moving. We thought that he was dead-maybe hit the eggcrate so hard. I poked him. And he started swimming around. He's fine today.
6. My 4 year old Potter's Angel is completely missing. No body, yet. It's been 2 weeks. I checked the overflows. Nothing. That is very stange.
7. My yellow coris wrasse, anthias, and firefish have completely freaked out and spasmed in the middle of the water. Not hiding, but literally complete somersaults for 10 seconds when I put my hand near them in the tank. They ususally just scoot over to the other side of the tank.
What is going on??????? Is there a predator in my tank????
I've had the 120gal for 4 years, moved the tank twice, so I would be shocked if that is the case.
These are my inhabitants:
Yellow Tang
Hippo Tang
Firefish
Dispar Anthias
Flame Hawkfish
Pajama Cardinal
Yellow Wrasse
Ocellaris Clownfish
Green Chromis
Royal Gramma
Cherub Angel
Handful of Scarlet Hermits
Green Bubble Tip
Couple of Snails
Orange Starfish
All of the coral look normal. I don't hear any clicking sounds-no mantis. What could it be? Could it be the Flame Hawkfish?
