Flame angel disappeared

Zach0115 · Dec 5, 2017

Hey I have had my flame angel about 3 weeks in my dt but it just disappeared looked around the inside and outside of my tank. Any ideas what could have happened? TIA
Other fish are 2 clarki clowns
Melanurus wrasse
Green mandarin goby
And Royal gramma

abecker · Dec 5, 2017

Did you look in the sump, and under any furniture within about 10 feet of the tank. I had a fish go missing and it was under a couch which sits about 5-6 feet from the tank.

Zach0115 · Dec 5, 2017

Yea looked everywhere around the tank and under furniture still nothing

Webslinger · Dec 5, 2017

Does your cats breath smell fishy?

Tuffyyyyy · Dec 5, 2017

Do you have any cats? I've accepted that if a fish jumps I'll never find it because of the cats.

HB AL · Dec 5, 2017

If it died it might be nudged in some rocks somewhere out of site, not sure what your tank scape looks like.

Zach0115 · Dec 5, 2017

No cat so that’s out the window. And I can see between my rocks

Tyler_Fishman · Dec 5, 2017

Likely if it didn't jump out it died in your rock, you can do a tear down if you really are concerned and want an affirmative answer

ca1ore · Dec 5, 2017

It's remarkable how quickly a fish carcass can be reduced to nothing - a day or two will usually do it.

Webslinger · Dec 6, 2017

Do you have a CUC. Mine can take care of a small fish overnight.

n21benson · Feb 7, 2018

Zach0115 said:
Hey I have had my flame angel about 3 weeks in my dt but it just disappeared looked around the inside and outside of my tank. Any ideas what could have happened?

Did you ever find him?

TYPHANIE3 · Jan 25, 2022

My flame angel is missing and no where to be found

Lost in the Sauce · Jan 25, 2022

TYPHANIE3 said:
My flame angel is missing and no where to be found

Hi. This thread is 3 years old, but the information above still applies.

Good luck finding it.

HudsonReefer2.0 · Jan 25, 2022

ca1ore said:
It's remarkable how quickly a fish carcass can be reduced to nothing - a day or two will usually do it.

Been there.

reeftivo · Jan 25, 2022

check your overflow if you have one

i had a sixline wrasse that got spooked and i thought i lost her. looked in sump, in and around tank for a couple days, then gave up. one night i heard a little splash and thought what the heck was that, then looked around and heard it again coming from the overflow. Shined a light in there and sure enough! there she was swimming up and down refusing to go down the pipe. She must have been feeding on the tube worms and such in there.

my over flow is 6 x 6 x 24 so the poor gal was pretty restricted in there