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07-08-2010, 01:43 AM
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Who is eating my Shrimps?
I have these in a 133 gal reef tank:
2 percula clowns 2 Lubbock's wrasses 9 Blue green chromis 1 Orchid dottyback 1 yellow tang 1 lawnmower blenny I sand-shifting amblygobius goby 3 yellow tailed azure damsel fish 1 6-line wrasse 1 two spot wrasse -Halicheres biocellatus 1 yellow-tail Indian angel 1 cherub angel 1 mandarin goby 1 flame hawkfish ( I know, but it is only 3/4" long!) 1 yellow-headed jawfish 1 PJ cardinal fish The only thing that I can think of is the flame hawkfish. I read that you should introduce the shrimps first ( Skunk Cleaners) prior to adding the hawk. I have both med and large-sized ones in there, one day after I brought the flame hawk home. A week later, not even a white whisker in sight! No shells, bodies, nada. Altogether, 5 cleaner shrimps totally disappeared. Looked everywhere. I really like to try again before the flame hawk gets too much bigger. Any suggestions? 
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#2
07-08-2010, 03:17 AM
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Six line wrasse are also cautioned against for sometimes eating ornamental shrimp.
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07-08-2010, 07:46 PM
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any of your wrasses could potentially be a suspect.....I watched my mystery wrasse and a lineatus wrasse team up on a peppermint that I had......
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07-08-2010, 07:51 PM
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Shortly after adding my Lunare and Candy hogfish my 2 Cleaners also pulled a disappearing act...I believe they are just playing hide and seek.
By the way you have a lot of fish, Wow! My tanks are so empty! Last edited by Leah; 07-08-2010 at 07:57 PM.
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07-08-2010, 09:03 PM
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Yeah, Leah, I do. Bad, I know, but I cannot resist another cutie when I see one. And now I may have to get rid of a couple of them. I witnessed the Indian yellow-tail angel and the two-spot wrasse tear apart a soft-shelled slug-like snail and ate it. The wrasse didn't seem to have a very big mouth! I will try to catch these two to put into a tank at work. OR I could just let the 2 cleaners that I just brought home go to the tank at work. Depends on how much work I want to do or how wet I am willing to get.
Thanks everyone. I knew that if I watch tthem enough I will catch whoever is the culprit!
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07-08-2010, 09:16 PM
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 I hear you it is hard to resist I am just lucky in that I need to order my fish.I have witnessed my beautiful Lunare wrasse brutally attach and murder a large Nasssarius snail...much to my horror. I didn't really need to see that. Eat or be eaten, but really would prefer to look the other way when it does happens.
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#7
07-08-2010, 09:26 PM
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Yup. So I will be taking the two cleaners to work, no wrasses there. At home, even if the first two are eliminated, I still have the two Fairy Wrasses and 6-line to worry about.
So..., even though I really would like to see my reef tank having a couple of sets of whiskers poking out behind my LR, I better not, at leasr until one day, when the fish Gods smile upon me, and let me win the lotto 6-49 so that I can upgrade my tanks. Then, watch out! Now I know why everyone has a fowlr tank, too, on the side, for the oops! buy. I had these guys since they were teeny, so hard to let them go to the lfs. Hmmm, at least this will be a lesson for others. Still don't get it... his mouth is sooo tiny!!!
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