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msboulder

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I wonder if you might be able to provide some insight on what might have happened to my catalina goby, which went completely missing – no signs of her anywhere.
I had a six-lined wrasse, a percula clown, a cleaner shrimp, the catalina, some corals, snails, and red-legged crabs in a 26g tank.
The changes included adding two additional corals attached to very small chunks of live rock which wouldn’t allow for many hitchhikers to speak of, and a canary blenny.
Within a few days of these additions, two of the red-legged crabs died, one I found pieces and the other somewhat intact. In moving the rock around I also found and removed what may have been a very small bristle worm – it had the bristles but also two or three "legs," somewhat star shaped.
What could have eaten the catalina fish? I see no evidence of it at all, nothing – it is completely gone. Do you think it was the bristle worms, which I have yet to find, or could it have been the canary blenny? Will a blenny eat a small fish?
 
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Depending on where they are collected, Catalina Gobies are sometimes not the hardiest of fish to keep in our reef tanks. I'd likely say it died and was consumed by your cleanup crew or it jump from your tank. Meiacanthus spp. (Fang Blennies) are peaceful and feed on small crustaceans and algae.

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David Mohr
 

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