Stuck Fish; Now There All Stuck and Dead!! HELP!

[skylord]

Im with untamed on this....very few animals kill for fun. Most animals kill when they need food or when they are protecting their young.

Scott

[Coderad]

The first dead fish was 3 days before the next 2 But still no luck finding anything else.

[justinl]

+1 on untamed hypothesis.

A very large mantis would be capable of killing that many fish in that short a time but I highly doubt it was a mantis. Pretty much 100% of the hitching mantids are "smashers" which hit with little club like arms.

the other mantids are "spearers" who work pretty much exactly like a preying mantis. but i doubt that one because ive never heard of a hitching spearer. they live in the sand.

any mantis capable of that kind of damage would be very large and would have made its presence known a long time ago.

[Delphinus]

The disease theory, either with or without an opportunistic something-or-other that pulls the fish into the rock, is entirely plausible... I just thought it was odd the fish were pulled tail first into the rock but that's not saying that it means anything. I've never knowingly had a mantis in a tank so I defer to those who have them (or have had them) to know better than I, what makes sense in that case.

[marie]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

The disease theory, either with or without an opportunistic something-or-other that pulls the fish into the rock, is entirely plausible... I just thought it was odd the fish were pulled tail first into the rock but that's not saying that it means anything. I've never knowingly had a mantis in a tank so I defer to those who have them (or have had them) to know better than I, what makes sense in that case.

^^^^Exactly what he said ^^^^^

not to mention there have been no new livestock added in the last 4 months

[Moogled]

Vote untamed for the world's next best detective.

+1.

[justinl]

maybe you got one of these in there...
http://www.stephenwong.com/divetoto/...it_Worm_01.jpg

bobbit worm (eunice)... check out the jaws on this guy. lol joke though. these guys live in the sand. apparently when the feed, they trap fish and do it so forcefully that they often split the prey in two! ouch.