Missing New Bubble Tip...

[cwatkins]

Came home from the LFS yesterday with a small zoa colony, 2 clown fish and a bubble tip for them. Our tank is 3.5 months old and they were our first fish.

Currently have just a CUC. 5 red scarlet hermit crabs, 10 blue hermit crabs, a bunch of snails and a white sea star.

This morning this clowns were swimming around but no bubble tip! Last night we placed it on a calm overhang after acclimitizing it, before going to bed it had moved itself under the overhang upside down.

This morning we checked all over the tank and cannot find it. Even removed a few pieces of live rock that it could be hiding behind.

Would the crabs have eaten it? It was a good 3 inches in diameter, so I highly doubt that the crabs could eat it in 10 hours. Do these guys like to hide themselves in little spaces?

It didn't climb out of the tank for sure (it was hanging on the side of the tank wall when we picked it out, so it was a climber).

Any ideas?

Should I just not worry and hope it comes out on its own?

It was $50, and I'd prefer to be able to see it :-)

And besides, the clowns never even got to befriend it.

Thanks.