what's beating up/killing my angels?

[scarf_ace1981]

to make a long story short, i had an eibli angel in my 30. one day i noticed it's fins were nipped. so i immediately thought it was my sixline. that eibli died a day later due to the pump in my skimmer box. so i took out my sixline and put it in the sump. now m new half black angel has nipped fins. i do have a new pair of clowns but i've never seen the clowns act aggressive towards the angel. the only two fish i have are a geometric hawk and a pinkbar goby.

could it possibly be the hawk? but it's so tiny.

 

[marrone]

I would bet that it was the clowns.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

so what beat up the first angel. the sixline? it was fine for a week or so then all of a sudden it was beat up. same thing happened to this new angel. fine for a week and then wham. nipped fins.

 

[marrone]

It possible that the six line could have been the one that was nipping at the first angel and the clowns at the second angel. Also you can have a crab that is picking on some of your fish. I don't think it's a mantis as the six line and Hawk would have been attacked.

 

[scarf_ace1981]

i'm not sure on the crab. cuz it would have attacked my pygmy hawk and small pinkbar goby.

 

[marrone]

It was probably the clown and six line that was nipping at the fins. The bar goby or Hawk mostly likey wouldn't do it. Both the Clowns and Six line can be very aggressive and there really isn't much else to blame it on.

 

[mshur]

i would say ur hawk fish is the problem.. sometimes they are very aggresive.. ask rich ( jackson) he got one before . nasty fish... take him out

 

[marrone]

A geometric hawk is a very small fish and they're very non-aggressive.

 

[Aqua Pro Builder]

What clown you have?

My tomato pretend to be aggressive only to clowns but actually, it is not. It killed my sailfin with a bite mark that no way to mistaken it. It seems never bother the sailfin but when the time comes, he shows no mercey.

 

[druluv]

My bet is on the crab picking when the fish sleeps

 

[scarf_ace1981]

the hawk is very small. 1.25"

the false clowns bother no one. they just stay in their rbta. the angel passes by w/ no problems.

crab? i really think it would get the smaller fish which are always @ the bottom first.

this really has me stumped. i guess i'll do some night watching