My healthy well established tang is missing?????? Any ideas?

Do you have A cat

[the marine apprentice]

did he possibly go over your overflow or in your sump. fish do the damndest things sometimes

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Trocar61

Do you have A cat

Yes (read through my original post) I was wondering if maybe somehow my cat got him but it seems unlikely that she would be able to actually catch a fast moving tang in a tank as large as mine.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Leah

Oh Laurie that is so sad, maybe he is just hiding.

That's what I'm hoping but I have no idea why he would suddenly hide. Also I know I haven't seen him today but I can't remember exactly when I last saw him. I don't think I saw him yesterday but I think I saw him the day before that but I really can't remember. I know this past weekend on Sunday I was staring at my tanks and I remember seeing him then, because I remember thinking how big he's gotten compared to when I first got him, but after that I'm not sure. I'm so used to always seeing him that it was really odd looking into my tank today and not seeing him. Came as a bit of a shock to say the least

I'm really paranoid that he's trapped somewhere (that happened to my sleeper goby, he was trapped for almost a week when we moved some rock around and much to our surprise he slowly swam out but unfortunately his injury's were to bad and he died a week later ) I just don't know what has happened to him and it's driving me nuts as well as worrying me like crazy.

Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

did he possibly go over your overflow or in your sump. fish do the damndest things sometimes

Sorry, I forgot to mention (as that was my first thought) but I looked very carefully in my sump and there is no signs of him being in there. My overflow empties into my refugium part of the sump so it's safe from pumps etc. I have had fish go down my overflow into my sump but when that has happened I have always found them easily in my refugium.

[Marlin65]

I lost a 3"-4" trigger no trace checked all my rock overflow everything. No trigger I have a cat as well but I found bird **** next to the tank.
So cat or Bird.

[the marine apprentice]

this may be a long shot but can you look down your drain in the overflow? he may be stuck in there since he is that size

[kien]

cat jumps on tank, fish spooked, fish jumps out of tank, cat jumps down from tank, cat eats fish, fish missing.

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by kien

cat jumps on tank, fish spooked, fish jumps out of tank, cat jumps down from tank, cat eats fish, fish missing.

My cat jumps on top of the tank all the time (my fish are pretty used to her) and it doesn't usually phase them. I can't see it spooking him but it's hard to say. However I will admit that I really don't want to think it's possible that my cat could of killed him

[fishoholic]

Originally Posted by Marlin65

I lost a 3"-4" trigger no trace checked all my rock overflow everything. No trigger I have a cat as well but I found bird **** next to the tank.
So cat or Bird.

Sorry to hear that

Originally Posted by the marine apprentice

this may be a long shot but can you look down your drain in the overflow? he may be stuck in there since he is that size

I have a small side overflow on that tank with a lot of long plumbing pipe before it gets to my sump, there is pretty good flow through it all but I'm going to shake some pipes right now just in case......Well I banged on and shook the plumbing pipes (I heard the water slosh around inside) but no fish came out into the refugium.

[Zoaelite]

My Canary wrasses mate has been gone for 3 days now, perhaps there's a fish convention going on that we don't know about. Hope he comes out of hiding for you Laurie Naso's always have the best personalities!