Houdini Fish - Back from the dead, but stressed

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So last Thursday I bought a Jawfish. He seemed to be doing fine, was a little stressed out so I decided to keep checking on him over the next week, feeding him garlic soaked food.etc

Friday I got home and he had dug a burrow, ate food great and everything, kept poking his head out of his house to check up on everything outside the tank, exactly what I was hoping my jawfish would do. Even though he wasn't burrowed in the most favorable place in the tank, he had probably picked the most secure area.

And then I woke up on Saturday, no signs of the fish.  I did my weekly water change, sat by my tank for 30 minutes just to see if he would come out, but he didn't seem to be there.

So after buying the rest of the things I needed for my Jawfish condo, I decided to take the tank apart, I wanted to push my rock back anyways to give more room for corals. 

I pulled all the rock out of it and 60% of the water put it all into a tupperware bin with a powerhead in it for about an hour, sifted through all of my sand, and there was not a sign of the jawfish anywhere, checked my back chambers, checked the rocks and he was gone.

Basically what I am trying to figure out, is if clean up crews will devour a whole fish?  I have some pretty big hermits in my tank, a starfish and a mithrax crab.  The only thing I can think that may have happened is that my clean up crew finished him off during the night?

I'm not really bummed out about the fish being dead, i'm just mad that I can't even take the dead fish in for store credit, but I guess my clean up crew deserves a $20 snack 

Edited by Ahanix - April 29 2010 at 12:43am