my second loss
 

this blows.
my yellow headed jawfish, Deborah Harry (aka Blondie, aka yellow head) is no where to be found in my tank today. no room for him to jump out, got the top covered. fed them their cyclopeze this morning, and no signs of him. at feeding time, he always came right out in front and danced for the food. and no signs at all today of that during feeding. so i tore apart the rock in half of my tank, the area where he made all his tunnles connect to one big burrow, and nothing... not even a skeleton of what once was. i don't see any place else in my tank that has and sand piles to tell me where his new home is, so i don't know what happend. there is no sign of him what so ever. this sucks BIG TIME. even more then losing my Shrimples. not only was Debbie the most characteristic fish i had, it was also the most expensive by far.
gonna check my perameters later, i have to head out to the vet with my dog. i just dont get how there isn't anything left of him. god, this SUCKS. :cry:
eva

have any crabs? maybe they finished off the body before you realized he was gone :(

nope, not one crab in my tank.

:confused: weird, where could he have disappeared to....

whens the last time you saw him?

I have had mine dissapear for days on end before and he has always reapeared.....I hope he is just hiding somewhere....Did you check you sump and or Overflow....Mine has jumped into my overflow many times before!!!

Mine takes up a new home every few days, when I started looking for him in a panic, he buried himself into the sand and hid in the bed for a LONG time, but poked out his head again eventually, I'm sure he's around.

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I was just going to say it could be under the sandbed. Do you have bristle worms in your tank? They made a quick meal out of a flame angel that died in my tank. Dead in the morning, gone by the time I got home from work.

I am not sure if jawfish find holes in rocks... but that's a possibility as well?

Don't panic just yet.

the last time i saw debbie was last night before the lights went out. i dont have a sump or over flow, and i checked my hang on back filters just in case. i removed all teh rock from the area she has her home in and nothing there, disturbed the sand with my fingers to see if a body popped up. searched my tank high and low with a flashlight in all the dark corners, and there are no signs of disturbed sand anywhere other then in her usual corner. it's not a big tank, she can't hide that well! gonna check my parameters after i cook supper, i'll post them and you can all yell at me how horrible they are. i'm a terrible mother! poor little blondie.... i have a few small bristle worms in my tank, so who knows... maybe they had a good dinner last night.

thanks for everyone who is being optimistic! but i think debbie has gone to fishy heaven.

eva