baumer Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 So I've been in this hobby for about 10 months now..Love it... Where do fish go.. In the past 5 days.. Blue Tang ,,, Big Yellow eye tang and a little yellow goby.. have disappeared.. Cant find them anywhere.. Have lids on top and a slotted cover on my overflow... Do I have to pull all the rock out of my 75g tank???? If dead somewhere in the tank,,Will all other fish and coral die??? What do I need to do so my tank wont CRASH... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Higher Thinking Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Well the first place I'd be looking is all around the floor. I don't think tangs are notorious jumpers, but you know. I know you said you have covers, but that doesn't prevent things entirely. Losing three fish is quite an anomaly. Have you tested parameters lately? An ammonia spike could (at this point) be both the cause and the result of dying fish. If it's the cause, obviously you'll want to find out what triggered that in the first place. How big are the fish? When were they added? Blue tangs tend to jam themselves in between rocks to hideout. When they're comfortable, they'll come out. No other ideas at the moment. Hope you figure it out though. Don't get discouraged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Had the blue tang for about 2 month the yellow eye tang and the yellow goby for about 1 month..There were all eating and swimming around.. First to be gone was the blue tang... Then a few days later I notice that the 2 others were gone.. The corals ,, Big RBT ,2 clowns and a PJ card..doing fine for now.. PH, Phos, are fine.. Cant fine any sign of the fish.. Pieces ,,nothing... JUST GONE.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorW Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Wow that many fish to disappear is wierd. I've had fish jump but never tangs, and when they die they'll disappear fast being eaten by hermit crabs etc. But then again I've also had fish I thought were long gone only to find them alive and well months later (while moving rocks or they decide to come out) but checking your floor is a good idea. Look good too, once they dry out they no longer resemble a fish. Good luck Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G360AZ using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emerald525 Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 Personally I have never had a fish just die without showing signs of illness first. The ones that have looked good and then disappeared either jumped and some I didn't find until the tank was moved because they were in the back. Others ended up in the overflow or even the filter sock. It is also possible that they could be lost to an unknown predator. What size is your tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youcallmenny Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 When fish die, they get eaten very quickly by the clean up crew. Early on I lost a sailfin tang to a bully of a yellow tang and when I searched for him one morning, all I found was a bit of skull and spine. He was stripped down within hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baumer Posted January 21, 2017 Author Share Posted January 21, 2017 Crazy. I have a 75g. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fmorris Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 gorilla crab hiding out? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjabeaver Posted January 21, 2017 Share Posted January 21, 2017 When my clowns were babies one of them went down the overflow into the sump, found it in the morning calmly swimming in the sump. That is a lot of fish to dissapear though, when I first started my chromis would hide and I kept thinking I lost them, even moving rocks around to look, they were very good at hiding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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