Last week I lost my only fish a Dwarf Angel. Vanished without a trace. I captured a Mantis the day before the fish disappeared. I spent the week trying to figure out who to blame by watching the tank. My traps don't seem to work (Exterminator and soda bottle baited with silversides). I hear clicking coming from the tank (another mantis?) but I've not seen another mantis. My tank also houses a hitchhiker hairy crab, Brittle star, and an anemone. Could the Angel have bumbled into the anemone? There also used to be two Brittle stars but the same thing happened, one vanished wothout a trace. I've never seen the hairy crab do anything except freeload some food and the star was being picked on by the Angel the day before (revenge?). That leaves the cast of suspects, Hairy crab, the Brittle star, Anemone, or a possible Mantis. One more piece of evidence, Over the past few weeks, I pulled two murdered hairy crabs from the tank. The bodies were there but obviously mangled.
So who do you think is to blame?
So who do you think is to blame?