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My large female maroon, whom I obtained in 1999, is MIA today. Since she eats like a pig, and begs for food, I assume the worst.
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Did you check around the tank?
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Uh oh... I'm afraid you may be correct. They don't usually sleep in.
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Well, I would have to tear it apart to find her. I imagine she is dead and wedged behind some rock, and the other inhabitants are having a meal. I can sort of see where it might be, and there is a brittle star on the scene.
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The overflow?
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Chrispy":4hapuiee said:
Oh, you mean she might have jumped? No. It is closed. No dead fish (unless the dog ate it).
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Yeah, if she ain't in the overflow, it doesn't look good.
Sorry.
Sorry.
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mancrab":fwgwabdf said:
No, it is flush with the top of the acrylic, so it can't happen.
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Is there another maroon in the tank?
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Did she leave a note or anything?
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Another search turned up nothing. Just like Steve Fossett.
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Chrispy":61fez6dv said:
Yeah, a very small male who now looks lost. Her first mate died about a year ago, and I replaced the male and they have been happy for a year, so I don't think it was an ichthyocide. Becides, she was about 5 times larger.
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Maybe a nitrate test could confirm your fears
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If you have a brittle star then you may never find the body anyway.
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I never found the male when it croaked. But it was a lot smaller.
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mancrab":1myd0leq said:
My fear that never changing the water causes nitrates to accumulate?
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While visiting my parents over Xmas, I looked through a box of old CDs. Wedged between two of the CDs was my favorite 6-line wrasse that I had bought for them. For reference, we had taken their tank down about 4 years ago and the fish had been missing for years before that. It was a long wait, but I felt a weird sense of peace at having solved such a long-forgotten mystery. It's really too bad that I water-boarded the brittle star all those years ago trying to get him to confess to the crime.
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RIP Mrs. Maroon.
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sorry SubMarc
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Dang!
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