Well...I did it today. After the disappearance of Buffy (the Clown) on Sunday night I figured there was nothing else to do. But as I feared, I found nothing. I took out every rock in the tank, dipped it in super-salty water, looked from every angle, poked a tweezer into every hole, left the rocks lying in the air for 10-30mins while I worked on the rest of the rocks, and found nothing. No mantis. No other unexplained creatures. So...with just the Coral Beauty (Willow...Evil Willow?) as a survivor I don't know what else to do and think. Why did they die? I just assume the Skunk Shrimp and Nassirius/Turbo Snails and Hermits ate the bodies... My thinking is that the first two fish died from the stress of the transfer. And the rest of the deaths were caused by unhealthy Chromises. Though why it would take the last Clown so long to perish, while showing no signs of duress, I don't know.... Any other thoughts??
I'm going to be getting the Kole Tang from House on, probably, Thursday. My concerns are for the health of that fish and for the fish that would be added after it. Tangs are pretty territorial, right? If I add Clowns after the Tang, would be ok or would the Tang take issue with new neighbors??
Grrrr!!!! Arggghhhhh!!!