Treefer32
Valuable Member
I had 4 Clown fish, 2 Darwin Black and White and 2 Orange and White oscellaris. They had paired up 1 orange with 1 black and white each. (Don't know why). For a little over a year.
Then I had 3 clown fish. Then 3-4 months went by and I was down to two. No, corpses outside the tank (I run mesh covers to prevent this) and no corpses that I could find in the display. Though it is 340 gallons so, who knows...
Then last week another 2-3 months later I noticed I was down to one black and white darwin clown fish. He looked normal and was feeding normal. Then, just today a week later, I noticed the last darwin clown is missing.
My Dragon wrasse has been getting very agressive with other fish. Outright attacking my creole anthia (locking jaws at times). However, I've never seen my dragon wrasse eat a fish. I've seen needles sticking out of his mouth.. (Pretty sure he ate birstle worms that were maybe too big for him...)
He could possibly get his mouth around a clown fish if he tried. It opens pretty large. Just wondering if anyone has heard of Dragon Wrasses actually eating other fish? Or if my clown fish died off to some unknown disease. All I've lost are clown fish. Granted they were my smallest fish in the display.
I have a canary blenny, and Royal gramma all similar in size to the clown fish, neither one of them have been eaten yet. I have no corpses at all to tell a story with. . . Either they died in the rocks and the bristle worms devoured them to the point I never saw a corpse or anything. Or a fish got hungry and saw them as a meal?
I had to be gone a couple weekends, so, all I had was the autofeeder feeding flake and pellet food. The Dragon wrasse, pretty much only eats frozen... And he's a voracious eater...
Then I had 3 clown fish. Then 3-4 months went by and I was down to two. No, corpses outside the tank (I run mesh covers to prevent this) and no corpses that I could find in the display. Though it is 340 gallons so, who knows...
Then last week another 2-3 months later I noticed I was down to one black and white darwin clown fish. He looked normal and was feeding normal. Then, just today a week later, I noticed the last darwin clown is missing.
My Dragon wrasse has been getting very agressive with other fish. Outright attacking my creole anthia (locking jaws at times). However, I've never seen my dragon wrasse eat a fish. I've seen needles sticking out of his mouth.. (Pretty sure he ate birstle worms that were maybe too big for him...)
He could possibly get his mouth around a clown fish if he tried. It opens pretty large. Just wondering if anyone has heard of Dragon Wrasses actually eating other fish? Or if my clown fish died off to some unknown disease. All I've lost are clown fish. Granted they were my smallest fish in the display.
I have a canary blenny, and Royal gramma all similar in size to the clown fish, neither one of them have been eaten yet. I have no corpses at all to tell a story with. . . Either they died in the rocks and the bristle worms devoured them to the point I never saw a corpse or anything. Or a fish got hungry and saw them as a meal?
I had to be gone a couple weekends, so, all I had was the autofeeder feeding flake and pellet food. The Dragon wrasse, pretty much only eats frozen... And he's a voracious eater...
