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BigShakka
07/05/2006, 05:07 AM
First my green chromis was missing...i just turned on the lights for the tank to check on the fish, my damsel is missing, my skunk clown is dead on the sand. only fish i have left now is my percula clown which is larger then the others and doesnt usually hang out around the live rock usually swims in the open day and night? what could be killing my poor fish im so sad :(
Bradco
07/05/2006, 05:46 AM
Do you have an anenome?
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 05:51 AM
my tank is fairly new, only been running for about 5 weeks. I have a about 15 snails, 2 of them died the other nightas well. about 12 hermit crabs. a bunch of very very very weird creatures that come out at night and a cleaner shrimp. theres some stuff on the live rock, i know there is some aiptasia but not that much and there is small featherdusters. my tank is a 44 gal hex
fsn77
07/05/2006, 06:17 AM
How long ago did your tank finish cycling?
Did you make any changes recently?
Do you have any current test results?
The_fishkeeper86
07/05/2006, 06:19 AM
do you hear the horribe clicking durring the night!
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:22 AM
my tank finished cycling about 2 weeks ago. However i never had any spikes. the parameters stayed the same the whole time. ammonia none, nitrites 0 and nitrates between 10-20 . my water temperature stayes between 78-80. my chromis and damsel just dissapeared, bodies were not found. however my skunk clown i found the body, before it died it did have a bunch of white spots on it and didnt look to healthy. i didnt know what to do as i thought it would get better over time. the damsel was always very lively and healthy looking but it did sleep in the caves of the live rock at nights so i believe something ate him
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:23 AM
i hear this clicking sound every 10-15 minutes, its just one loud click. i made a post earlier about me seeing some kind of thin animal with lots of legs and long antenae coming out of one of the holes in the live rock the other night
fsn77
07/05/2006, 06:27 AM
Sounds like you have a mantis shrimp or a really aggressive pistol shrimp. You should try to catch it before it kills and eats the rest of your tank's inhabitants.
The_fishkeeper86
07/05/2006, 06:33 AM
a mantis is kely yor problem get a flash light with a red lense and do a steak out if you can locate the rock he is on remove it, then isolate the rock some where else
The_fishkeeper86
07/05/2006, 06:34 AM
arg, i hate typos :p
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:37 AM
How do I catch I ve only seen it once it stays in the rocks. Can someone also post a picture of it?
fsn77
07/05/2006, 06:40 AM
There's a forum just for mantis shrimp, if you scroll down the list a little.

Here's a post from it that has pix:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=877100

Edit: The forum link:
http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&daysprune=&forumid=37
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:45 AM
oh thanks for the picture thats definently not it. this thing is brownish. right under where he hides tho theres is this molting of a very nasty looking crab leg, its faint orange in color with a black tip, maybe its some time of animal with pinchers?
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:46 AM
in the tank there is also a emerald crab and something what people on this forum believe it to be a teddy bear crab, could those guys be doing damage?
fsn77
07/05/2006, 06:52 AM
Does it look like any of these?
http://home2.pacific.net.ph/~sweetyummy42/hitchcrabs.html
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 06:59 AM
this is the crab, as for the other creature that hides i dont have a picture of that since i only saw it once. my other crab is definently a ermerald crab tho

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/shakka7/100_1187.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/shakka7/100_1183.jpg

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b166/shakka7/100_1168.jpg
BigShakka
07/05/2006, 09:26 AM
well my damsel turned up. but my skunk clown died... it had a bunch of white spots on it and didnt look too good