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SquishyFishy

I have not seen my little Green Clown Goby for several days, He's not popping out to get his Thera-A and searching with a flashlight, can't find him anywhere.

 

About this same time my torch (about 4 heads) began closing up and was closed for an entire day!!!

 

If you can see where this is going, I suspect fowl play here! :o

 

I have seen him hopping through the torch tenticles before and it didn't seem to sting him, but......

 

Could it be possible? :wacko:

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Have you done water parameter checks to see if anything's died in there recently? Or if something else is bothering the coral, and your fish is just really good at hiding?

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When my yellow clown goby died, I didn't find the body either. I searched everywhere. I only have ONE rock in my nano tank so there's really not much hiding places for a dead body. I had a hermit crab at the time and I think he had a feast.

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Params perfect....checked that first. Only irritant might be the micro bubbles from my Ghost skimmer that I am having a time with, but I got that pretty much in check....I at first thought that was making my torch close up. The RBTA is closed at night. But he opens by lights on.

 

I have tons of rock with lots of holes but he always zipped out for feeding time. He would've come out for the krill at least....nothing! Guess he could've just passed away, but he was healthy looking and loved to perch on my dragon's breath macro all the time...not there...boohoo, I liked him, we called him Dash...he was so fast.

 

I have 3 hermits, mostly pretty small, one larger and an emerald, but they're well fed!! with a capital W!

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If your parameters, even nitrate, aren't hinting at a supersized feeding, then you may want to wait and see if he shows up at some point (though if your filtration is impeccable and also adsorbs nitrate, it's still possible he's gone).

 

Are you including alk, calcium, and magnesium in those parameters? Sometimes one or two corals will be more sensitive to swings.

 

If your coral has opened back up after that day, then yeah, there's a chance of fowl play. Do you target feed the torch coral? It could've been particularly hungry if not.

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SquishyFishy

You have to read this story, it's too comical and almost too fantastical to believe!

 

I was cleaning my rear chamber with my fuge in it, lifted out my wad of chaeto and then pulled up my vegetable net bag of pond matrix I use in there and felt a flip flapping and guess who was in the netting...yes the green clown goby! So "the reports of his death were wildly exaggerated!" Mark Twain!

 

So the RBTA and the torch have been reprieved and I got Dash back!! Isn't it wonderful! I really don't know how he got in there, he is too fat to fit through the intake, or so I thought and my new net top hasn't the slimmest of slits or holes...it's a mystery! And he's been gone almost a week...guess he was eating the pods back there.

 

He is now safe and sound and in his old digs atop my dragon's breath.....Mystery solved, good work Watson! :wacko:

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In my biocubes, on multiple occasions I have found fish in the back... I have no Idea how they could possibly get there without hardwork and determination.

 

Sadly, my favorite fish at the time, a yellow clown goby, was lost for 3 days. I looked in the back to finally see him! But, I couldnt get him.. So he stayed there for a couple weeks until I figured out a way to get him. Sadly, the day I got my hand in the back of the tank, he got caught in the return pump.....RIP.

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