uscgbeachbum
04/06/2014, 06:59 PM
So I picked up a pretty sweet looking BTA with a green base last night. After acclimation I put it where I wanted it knowing he'd roam around a little bit. Sure enough, about 5 min later he jumped off the rock and ended up behind some rock work. 2 hours later my wife notices it floating in the water again. I don't think anything of it since he'll find the spot he wants. I wake up this morning and there's no sign of him. I know they typically hide until they get comfortable, but then we found about 5 very small pieces that look oddly enough like small chunks of shrimp (the kind you eat). Nothing remotely looks similar to a tentacle for a positive ID. I only have 1 powerhead in the tank (Jebao WP25) with no evidence on the shroud or anywhere else on it. I found nothing in my overflow teeth. Nothing on my Herbie overflow pipe strainers. Nothing in my filter pad in my sump. I checked my parameters and no spike in ammonia. No change in water clarity. I turned off all of the flow in the tank and checked as much as I could with a flash light. I've got a pretty open aquascape, but I'd imagine there's still 10-15% that we can't see. Thoughts? FWIW all I have in the tank are 2 blood shrimp and 7-8 trochus snails.