Expensive Freakin' Lunch!
 

Everything was going SO well today....

Bought a nice piece of rock with a beautiful black feather duster on it for my 7 gal bowfront. Got the tank arranged quite nicely, too :smile:

Found two more emerald crabs for my 42 gal to take care of the problem algae. Saw one of them chowing down like crazy :smile:

But when I put the five peppermint shrimp into the 42, I knew something bad was going to happen.... The yellow coris wrasse and the getting-bigger-every-minute spotted hawkfish had a whiff of them as I gently introduced them a couple at a time. The shrimp scattered, but I don't think they had a chance. Several minutes later, I caught sight of the hawkfish with a peppermint antenna sticking out of its mouth. Later in the afternoon, I found a dead one on the sandbed. Don't know if there are any left, but I doubt they'll see the light of tomorrow. That d*mned hawkfish :evil:

Husband is building a trap to see if he can catch it. Will probably have the same luck catching the hawkfish as we've had catching the unwanted crabs in that reef :evil: :evil:

D*mn!

Yup, hawkfish are notorious for eating shrimp!!

Oh, so NOW you tell me :redface:

Shoulda known myself that that dang fish woulda eaten them. It's probably eaten all our bristleworms :eek:

Hmmm... from what I've heard the Yellow Coris Wrasse will eat the small Shrimps as well.

Think its only triggers that like bristleworms.................

My trigger tried one once......he'll never do that again!

I remember one day, many moons ago, I added several small cleaners to a tank. A day later they were gone. :confused: So, the next time I purchased more, I watched them closer that day.

Out from behind a rock comes one of the cleaners, running for its life, with my clarki clown hot on its tail and a cleaner already hanging from its mouth.

Agreed Bev, expensive lunch. :biggrin:

Did a water change on the 42 gal hes just before breakfast this morning. Found one PPS hiding behind the pump I use for removing water from the tank. Easily caught it, but was in the middle of stuff, so my first reaction was to put it into the seahorse tank. I hope it survived the temp shock :eek:

After all the water was back in the 42, found another one behind the powerhead. Tried to catch it, but it fled down into the tank. Hopefully this little guy will survive long enough for me to catch it another time and transfer it to another tank :smile:

Hawkfish + Shrimp = no shrimp + happy hawkfish. :eek:

Damn I should have read this earlier. I just added a flame hawk to a tank with 5 shrimps (2 cleaners and 3 peppermints), and 50 hermits.

Am I doomed?. They were alive this morning, I am getting nervous now.

Venki