Had a rough weekend with my ~5 month old 120. Long story short I accidentally killed my thriving BTA by lifting a rock I didn't think it was attached to. I tore its foot badly and it didn't recover. I had the nem for about 3 months and it has tripled in size and was loving life.
So I went out and got a new one yesterday. I placed it in the same spot, albeit removing a rock to make sure that history didn't repeat itself. I checked in on it last night about 10:00, an hour after lights went out and it was still there. It wasn't bubbled up yet but that was to be expected. I woke up this morning at 6:00 and checked the tank and it was no where to be found. I left for work thinking that maybe it was hiding and would come out as the lights gained intensity, but I just got home and it is still no where to be found. I have taken a flashlight and looked everywhere possible and I really don't think its in the tank. I do have a lot of rock work and I'm sure it "could" be in there, but I just have a bad feeling. The weird thing is, even this morning, is that there is no trace of it. If it got sucked into a power head I think there would at least be some residual meat hanging off the power heads. When i feed there's some chunks of frozen that can get hung up on a powerhead screen for a few hours. There was nothing, no bits floating around the tank, none that got hung up on rocks, and everything else looks fine. My parameters are in order, including 0 Ammonia and 0 Nitrite. I'm hoping you good people could tell me that they have had a new BTA hide for a period of time and he will show back up, but I am worried. Killing my first BTA was bad enough, but I didn't even get to see this one fully open up
Is it possible that it did get sucked into a powerhead in the middle of the night and disintegrated before I looked this morning? Wouldn't there be at least some sign of this, even if my corals looked stressed? I have a Crocea clam as well, and the old canary in the coal mine Duncan that never missed a beat. I'd just baffled and frusterated.
So I went out and got a new one yesterday. I placed it in the same spot, albeit removing a rock to make sure that history didn't repeat itself. I checked in on it last night about 10:00, an hour after lights went out and it was still there. It wasn't bubbled up yet but that was to be expected. I woke up this morning at 6:00 and checked the tank and it was no where to be found. I left for work thinking that maybe it was hiding and would come out as the lights gained intensity, but I just got home and it is still no where to be found. I have taken a flashlight and looked everywhere possible and I really don't think its in the tank. I do have a lot of rock work and I'm sure it "could" be in there, but I just have a bad feeling. The weird thing is, even this morning, is that there is no trace of it. If it got sucked into a power head I think there would at least be some residual meat hanging off the power heads. When i feed there's some chunks of frozen that can get hung up on a powerhead screen for a few hours. There was nothing, no bits floating around the tank, none that got hung up on rocks, and everything else looks fine. My parameters are in order, including 0 Ammonia and 0 Nitrite. I'm hoping you good people could tell me that they have had a new BTA hide for a period of time and he will show back up, but I am worried. Killing my first BTA was bad enough, but I didn't even get to see this one fully open up
Is it possible that it did get sucked into a powerhead in the middle of the night and disintegrated before I looked this morning? Wouldn't there be at least some sign of this, even if my corals looked stressed? I have a Crocea clam as well, and the old canary in the coal mine Duncan that never missed a beat. I'd just baffled and frusterated.
