Anemone Shrimp missing
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Topic: Anemone Shrimp missing
Posted By: Richard L.
Subject: Anemone Shrimp missing
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 12:12pm
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I have, or had two Spotted Anemone shrimp established in a couple flower anemones, and a Pederson's Anemone Shrimp in a green ricordia. Well established, eating and molting. After seven months all three were gone in one weekend. Any ideas on the culprit? I really liked these guys and would like to replace them, but not as food . . . I feed frozen food three times per week, dry pellets twice daily. 200 gal tank w/ 10% water change weekly, parameters are 81 F, 1.021 SG, 400 CA, 3.72 Alkalinity, 0 Ammonia-Nitrite-Nitrate, Dose Iodine weekly. Lighting 12 hrs daily by 2x140 w actinics, 3x250 W MH, circulation/filtration 3000 gph skimmer & return pumps, 27 gal sump, 2x1200 gph powerheads. Inhabited by: CORALS- Green Hammer, Yellow Porites, Yellow Palythoa, Blue w/green Cup Montipora, Pineapple, Met. Green Star Polyps, Thin Bar-PomPom-Tree CRUSTACEANS- Red Leg-Blue Leg-Scarlet-Blue Knuckle Hermit Crabs, Astrea-Nerite-Nassarius-Bumble Bee Snails, Banded Coral-Scarlet Cleaner-Peppermint Shrimps, Emerald-Decorator-Anemone-Acro Crabs, Flame Scallop. OTHER INVERTS- Yellow Cucumber, Sand Sifting-Harlequin Serpent-Red Serpent-Orange Fromia Stars, Encrusting Gorgonian, Purple Sea Blade, Knobby Sea Rod, Feather Duster-Coco-Cluster Duster Worms, Flower-Bubble Tip-Ritteri Anemones, Pink/Orange-Green Riccordia, Purple Fuzzy-Lavender Frilly-Giant brown-Green Stripe-Red-Orange/Red pimpled-Umbrella-Bullseye mushrooms, Yellow-Pink-Brown-Green-Orange Zoanthids. FISH- Lawnmower Blenny, Pigmy-Coral Beauty Angel, Green Chromis, Bangaii Cardinal, Four line Wrasse, Purple Pseudochromis, Mandarin-Red Scooter Dragonets, Pearly Jawfish, Bicolor Anthias, Black Ray- Dragon Goby, Yellow Tang. MACRO ALGAE- Halimeda, Pine Cone.
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Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 12:21pm
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Can you give us a latin name on the Black Ray- Dragon Goby? Otherwise, I don't see any conflicts. Maybe a banded coral conflict but I don't know. Sorry, Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
Posted By: Richard L.
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 1:54pm
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Stonogobiops nematodes: commonly known as Filament-Finned Prawn Goby, Threadfin or Hi Fin Red Banded Goby, and Black-rayed Shrimp Goby. I had suspicions of the Coral Banded Shrimp, and the Purple Pseudochromis. However, I have not observed anyone picking on these guys. They just vanished, even though their territories were a couple of feet from one another. |
Posted By: Ryan Willden
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 2:05pm
| Maybe a hitchhiker like a Mantis or Pistol shrimp... Do a google search. They're kind of common on live rock from certain bodies of water (though I can't recall which ones...) |
Posted By: Adam Blundell
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 2:31pm
Thanks for that. Good thing we have Latin, I call them rose gobies, but I don't know why I call them that. He isn't the problem, so nevermind on that. I'm still thinking shrimp (only because of how aggressive BCS are to each other). Adam ------------- Come to a meeting, they�re fun! |
1mariner7 wrote:Posted By: Richard L.
Date Posted: January 06 2004 at 2:34pm
| Have not seen any sign of mantis or pistols or any other thing that big. No audible indications either. I check the tank regularly after lights out just to see all the fauna that you never see in the daytime. Some pretty strange nocturnal animals in there. |