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

fishoholic · #1 01-15-2010, 02:15 AM

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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

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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 · #2 01-15-2010, 02:22 AM

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!

fishoholic · #3 01-15-2010, 02:28 AM

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Originally Posted by 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!

Thank-you, hummm maybe there's something to this fish convention

I've had wrasses hide on me for weeks at a time so don't give up hope yet, they are very good hidders. Never heard of a naso hiding before though. He is an awesome fish I'm really worried about him and I'm hoping he's ok.

PoonTang · #4 01-15-2010, 02:53 AM

Any possibability that he surfed to somewhere? he could easily travel up to 10 feet if no one was around when it happened. Get out a flashlight and look under everything and then start looking into all the little nooks and crannies in your LR, you may be able to see a piece of him stuck somewhere in the rocks.

Delphinus · #5 01-15-2010, 02:58 AM

I thought I lost my trigger on the weekend. I checked my overflows 10 times and each time I fully convinced myself "there are no fish in here." Guess where he was? They are the darndest good hiders/camoflagers sometimes. Also second the suggestion to check your pipes and so on. You never know.

Good luck, I hope you find him.

It's not impossible about the cat theory, but fwiw, I kind of doubt it too. There'd be some evidence, they're not exactly the cleanest/neatest of eaters when they're eating a whole animal.

Leah · #6 01-15-2010, 02:58 AM

Laurie,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but Sookie may not only have killed him but she probably ate it too. Bad Kitty!

kien · #7 01-15-2010, 03:12 AM

My orange tabby cat once dragged an angel fish to his lair (behind the sofa)

I would check your cat's usual haunts.

Marlin65 · #8 01-15-2010, 03:19 AM

If a fish that big dies in your tank you will know by the NO3 spike in the next few days. Hope he shows up but a Naso is not a Wrasse so I don't think it is hiding somewhere.

fishoholic · #9 01-15-2010, 03:41 AM

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Originally Posted by PoonTang

Any possibability that he surfed to somewhere? he could easily travel up to 10 feet if no one was around when it happened. Get out a flashlight and look under everything and then start looking into all the little nooks and crannies in your LR, you may be able to see a piece of him stuck somewhere in the rocks.

My boyfriend and I have done that twice now (we did it twice just in case we missed something the first time) but neither one of us found anything. There also is no water spots on the floor suggesting he jumped.

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Originally Posted by Delphinus

I thought I lost my trigger on the weekend. I checked my overflows 10 times and each time I fully convinced myself "there are no fish in here." Guess where he was? They are the darndest good hiders/camoflagers sometimes. Also second the suggestion to check your pipes and so on. You never know.

Good luck, I hope you find him.

It's not impossible about the cat theory, but fwiw, I kind of doubt it too. There'd be some evidence, they're not exactly the cleanest/neatest of eaters when they're eating a whole animal.

I banged on all my plumbing pipes and all I heard was water sloshing through them, there is a lot of pipe so I guess it's possible he could be suck, but the water flow on the other end (into the sump) seems normal. I only have one over flow on that tank and it is a pretty small side overflow so I can see he's not in there. Also I keep thinking like you (as in) you would think there would be some evidence if the cat ate him.

Zoaelite · #10 01-15-2010, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by fishoholic

Thank-you, hummm maybe there's something to this fish convention

I've had wrasses hide on me for weeks at a time so don't give up hope yet, they are very good hidders. Never heard of a naso hiding before though. He is an awesome fish I'm really worried about him and I'm hoping he's ok.

Any luck Laurie? If your skimmer hasn't gone crazy I guess that's a pretty good sign. The thing that's worrying me about my missing Canary is normally they never leave each others side so for the male to be swimming around for 3 days by himself is a little odd.