Where did my Royal Gramma go?

[volcano]

I had a nice and healthy Royal gramma.  It wasn't shy and was always front and center.  Yesterday,  it was nowhere to be spotted.  Today, the same situation.  It seems he vanished.  I checked the filter socks, etc.  and nothing.   BTW,  my tank has a lid, so it couldn't have jumped out.





Why did you leave me on Christmas!


All my levels test out perfect, and I have zero predators that would eat him.  I do have a serpent star, but it hasn't eaten fish that I know of and it is not the green variety.

Any ideas?

[Steve]

I have had a few fish perish that seemed perfectly healthy, out least outwardly. I had a male saddleback die and get eaten by his anemone 2 days after spawning. Do you have any large brain corals or any anemones?

[volcano]

Yeah, I have 2 large acans and a large RBTA, but a clown lives in that.  I don't see the clown allowing the gramma to even get close.

[Twizted1]

Have you adddd anything to the tank lately? I have had a fire fish & an orchid dottyback both disappear for a week or more before. The dottyback has always been shy. But the fire fish is & was always out. Then one day gone. I wrote it off as dead. Then one day it popped up, out of no were.

Here is a link to like situations. http://www.ohioreef.com/index.php?topic=14357.0

[volcano]

Nope, nothing new to the tank at all.

[Wall_Tank]

While they seem bold as heck.   They can get scared.   He is probably hiding inside a rock.

[volcano]

It's still gone!  Very unusual for this fish.  It is always front and center and afraid of nothing.  Not sure what happened, but I can't find it anywhere.  I wonder if adding another will bring it out of hiding or is it just dead and wedged in a rock?

[west chester reef]

    Any chance of a worm? I lost a jawfish and a watchman in the same night, and they lived in the same hole? check this out

[Twizted1]

Looks like a bristleworm to me. As far as I knowthey won't kill. They are scavengers. They will help a dead fish disappear.

[volcano]

I have never seen a worm in my tank, not even a bristle worm.  I am starting to think my serpent star ate him.  I would think by now his dead body would have floated to the surface, but it has not and it isn't in my sump. 

[EricShane]

Yeah, looks like a bristle worms but couldbe a fire worm or medusa worm?

[west chester reef]

It only comes out at night, and if a fish sleeps near it its a gonner, and anytime i have lost a fish, i have never seen it again. figured that was the clean up crew at work.