14g BioCube - Help 2 clowns disappeared

[rtrecost]

Woke up this morning and the 2 clowns in my BioCube have vanished. We have been unable to find them. Has anyone experienced this? We have a BTA but the clowns never hosted with it.

[skaterzero22]

check the overflow? i cant imagine losing 2 fish in 14g. maybe a predator? mantis? lots of rocks for their bodies to be stuck in?

[rtrecost]

Sad to say but nothing in the overflows so I started moving some of the rocks and found one of the clowns laying dead in the sand but have not been able to find the other. Is it possible that it was consumed by the BTA? The paramenters is stayed stable.

Any suggestions of what type of fish to use - Clowns or otherwise that the BTA will not harm in case it did consume the other clown?

[rtrecost]

Paramenters

Temp 77
Ammonia 0
Phosphate 0
PH 8.2
Nitrate 0
KH 186.9
Calcium 380
Salinity 1.025

[styndall]

Look in the back chambers. I've had to fish a clown out of the back chambers of my nano cube a number of times. They seem to get panicked when they're back there, so be careful not to drive it into the pump chamber, when the pump could kill it.

Otherwise, look carefully around the live rock. They can hide for quite a while.

[lloydkeller]

hopefull you find them before they foul your water