I need to figure out what is happening to my fish.
I have kept a 30 gal cube with a 15 gallon sump for a couple of years now. I let the tank go a little over a year ago because of some changes in my life. I stopped adding anything and just left it with the Single Royal Gramma in there with about 4 crabs and a fighting Conch. I just recently added a Lizard Blenny ( he is awesome) because the LFS mislabeled him as a red scooter, and had him for $8. Couldnt pass him up.
The blenny eats well, the Gramma got big, the conch got huge ( 4 nches) until I left for a trip to Chicago and now everything is gone.
Here is how it went down. Monday before I caught my plane, I saw the gramma hiding inside a small hole in the rock. Got back from trip Saturday, and the gramma was GONE. I mean just gone. No pieces, no parts, nothing. I have had this guy for SO LONG. Like 4 or more years I think.
Anyway, Everyone else was fine in the tank , until today.
Came home to find the Blenny laying on the floor of the tank, gutted, with a huge black hermit eating his guts out. Conch, pulled out of his shell, laying on the floor of the tank and half eaten.
Now, I know that hermits usually take advantage of easy food, but this was just too strange. 3 animals dead in 3 days.
Has anyone had any problems with sleeping fish and hermits?
The hermits are getting very aggressive and have pulled a couple of smaller hermits out of their shells.
So, anyone want to take a stab at this one?
BTW, tank parameters have been WELL within lower end of DOC limits for over a year.
All othe parameters, 8.25 ph, 79* temp, no nitrates/trites etc. So I know it's not new stresses.
I have no other predators in the tank.
I have kept a 30 gal cube with a 15 gallon sump for a couple of years now. I let the tank go a little over a year ago because of some changes in my life. I stopped adding anything and just left it with the Single Royal Gramma in there with about 4 crabs and a fighting Conch. I just recently added a Lizard Blenny ( he is awesome) because the LFS mislabeled him as a red scooter, and had him for $8. Couldnt pass him up.
The blenny eats well, the Gramma got big, the conch got huge ( 4 nches) until I left for a trip to Chicago and now everything is gone.
Here is how it went down. Monday before I caught my plane, I saw the gramma hiding inside a small hole in the rock. Got back from trip Saturday, and the gramma was GONE. I mean just gone. No pieces, no parts, nothing. I have had this guy for SO LONG. Like 4 or more years I think.
Anyway, Everyone else was fine in the tank , until today.
Came home to find the Blenny laying on the floor of the tank, gutted, with a huge black hermit eating his guts out. Conch, pulled out of his shell, laying on the floor of the tank and half eaten.
Now, I know that hermits usually take advantage of easy food, but this was just too strange. 3 animals dead in 3 days.
Has anyone had any problems with sleeping fish and hermits?
The hermits are getting very aggressive and have pulled a couple of smaller hermits out of their shells.
So, anyone want to take a stab at this one?
BTW, tank parameters have been WELL within lower end of DOC limits for over a year.
All othe parameters, 8.25 ph, 79* temp, no nitrates/trites etc. So I know it's not new stresses.
I have no other predators in the tank.
