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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / March 2005Dissapearing Green Chromis'
I brought home 5 small Green Chromis fish on Thursday. By tonight there are only two left. Something is grabbing them up but I can't figure what. Here's what's in the tank for animals: 3 Emerald Crabs 12 Blue Leg Hermit Crabs 6 Scarlet Hermit Crabs 2 Mexican Turbo Snails 12 Astrea Snails 6 Cerith Snails 12 Nassarius Snails 1 Serpent Starfish 1 Pink Tip Condy Anenome 2 Feather Dusters 1 Bi Color Pseudochromis 1 Yellow Tang 1 Fire/Blood Shrimp And of course the 2 Chromis that are left. Anyone have any thoughts as to who's grabbing these fish? The Anenome maybe? I really like them as they were peaceful and shoal nicely but I'm not going to continue to replace them if they're someone's dinner. $3.50 a feeder is a bit much! > were peaceful and shoal nicely but I'm not going to continue to > replace them Chromis Damsels? Peaceful????? I've watched a pair of those try to kill a small trigger! Maybe the condy. >I brought home 5 small Green Chromis fish on Thursday. By tonight there are >only two left. Something is grabbing them up but I can't figure what. [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > were peaceful and shoal nicely but I'm not going to continue to replace > them if they're someone's dinner. $3.50 a feeder is a bit much! > And of course the 2 Chromis that are left. Anyone have any thoughts as to > who's grabbing these fish? The Anenome maybe? That's my bet. George Patterson Drink up, Socrates -- it's all-natural. Is your tank completely dark at night? If so, you should try illuminating it just a little so that the fish can see where the anemone is and avoid running into it. This could be as simple as leaving a lamp in the room on at night. The adivice about leaving a light on comes from the Clownfish and Anemone FAQ in the reefcentral.com clownfish and anemone forum. It especially makes sense if the fish are new to the tank and don't have a good idea of what to avoid at night. Unfortunatly I didn't read this until after loosing a baby yellow tang (about 1" long) to my twice as big as he was three months ago condy. That thing is a monster. Good luck Blake I also would not entirley rule out the serpent star. Those guys can move pretty quickly and if the damsels were sleeping a little too close to its rock it might have grabbed them. I've sworn off serpent stars after one of them grabbed a baby cuttlefish I'd spent ages preparing for within minutes of adding it to the tank. Blake. I lost a few Chromis to our overflow box at first. Maybe they got frightened at night before we had moonlights ... or maybe they were just destined to commit suicide. Since we erected needlepoint-fabric "barricades", we've had fewer casualties. >I brought home 5 small Green Chromis fish on Thursday. By tonight there are >only two left. Something is grabbing them up but I can't figure what. Here's [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] >were peaceful and shoal nicely but I'm not going to continue to replace them >if they're someone's dinner. $3.50 a feeder is a bit much! =^..^= ... the problem with people these days is that they've forgotten we're really just animals. |
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