2 blenny losses

[Clown79]

I had a bicolor blenny for 6mnths. Great fish with tons of personality. This fish ate all the time and was active. No signs of ill health.

It disappeared overnight a mnth ago. I saw its carcass being dragged and cleaned by my pom pom. I have no idea the cause of death.

 

I replaced the fish with a tail spot blenny. He was cute but wouldn't eat for 5 days then ate only a bit of flake. Never went after food much, picked off rocks, swam around a bit. He disappeared the other night, i found him dead near a rock. Once again no signs of illness.

 

The only other fish I have is my oc clown who is fine.

 

The tank is 7mnths old, i do weekly water changes, use ro/di, fees 1x daily, clean out equipment monthly, change floss weekly, test weekly.

 

My params are:

 

15g

Ca 410

Alk 4

Mag 1230

Nitrate 5

Phos 0

Ph 8.2

Sg 1.025

Temp 78

 

Not sure if its lack of food or what but I'm hesitant adding another fish or what fish to add

[FlowerMama]

Check at night to see what's lurking about. Maybe something's killing them that lives in the rocks?

[StinkyBunny]

Large bristleworms will cause wounds on them that will kill them. I was having the same issue as you until I dealt with the larger bristleworms in the tank. Now I'm not having any issues. We had a Tailspot that was 2 years old and one day I noticed Buddha had some small wounds around his tail. A week later he disappeared. I saw a large bristleworm in his hole a week later. It's the one in my avatar picture.

[Clown79]

Been checking, no predators hitchhikers i've seen and nothing else has gone mia.

 

I thought the pom pom did in the bicolor but no proof on that, I just witnessed him cleaning up the body I couldn't get to.

 

I found the tail spot, nothing on his body. No signs of damage to body or parasites. He was on the thin side. I think his not eating properly could be the culprit.

I've never had a fish not eat for 5 days. He wouldn't touch mysis, the smallest pellet he would spit out. He ate very little and other than coralline, my tank doesn't have much algae.

 

 

We can't always explain things which is a bummer but I will avoid blennies, i love them but...

 

Time to find a friend for my clown

[FlowerMama]

Maybe it had internal parasites or something.

[Hammerstone]

Just make sure if you get another clown that it's noticeably smaller than your resident clown. That could lessen the chance of violence and they might turn into a pair ❤️

[Clown79]

I would love another clown but concerned about adding it after 7mnths of this guy being without another clown.

 

I originally had 2 but returned one, he was very aggressive

 

The clown I have hasn't been aggressive, if anything the bicolor blenny was the mean one.

[Matteo]

If you get a small clown it will automatically become the passive male.

[krusing93]

same LFS??? could be potential culprit and ask the LFS guy to feed fish before buying next time to make sure they are actively eating

[FlowerMama]

Maybe it was just the dominancy they were figuring out, they're not quite happy when they're doing it, so maybe that's all the aggression was about with your clown before.

[Clown79]

Both Blenny's were from different stores, thr bicolor ate with no issue the tail spot-was very odd in behaviour. Reminded me of a very skittish cat.

 

I'm thiking of trying a smaller clown or a purple firefish.

Both Blenny's were from different stores, thr bicolor ate with no issue the tail spot-was very odd in behaviour. Reminded me of a very skittish cat.

 

I'm thiking of trying a smaller clown or a purple firefish.

 

I originally started with 2 clowns and the blenny. The one clown constantly went after both fish constantly.