I recently started a second tank, a fusion 10 with skimmer that I got in great shape from another reefer. Cycled for about a month with dry rock and bottled ammonia, was eating 4ppm into nitrite in 24h, so I added my first fish, a yellow clown goby. Fish ate the first day (mysis) and was chilling primarily on one rock but did do some exploring.
After having him for a few days, I had a heater issue which caused a 3-4 degree temp drop from ~77.5-78.0 to ~74 (heater was in the return chamber and was too far out of the water...it's since been moved to avoid that happening again).
When I noticed the temp issue, I fixed the heater and the water slowly warmed back up to temp, but I haven't seen the goby since. Inverts in the tank are a small emerald crab (fingernail size), small skunk cleaner (smaller than most pep shrimp), pompom crab, 2 red legs and a couple small snails (notice the theme - everything small). Haven't had an ammonia spike at all, and I thoroughly checked around the tank (though there's a screen...he could fit beside it), and in the back (though there's a mesh guard over the overflow slits), and all throughout the rock, no luck so far. Been missing since Sunday afternoon so 2 days now.
Could he be hiding? Could the CUC have devoured him entirely without spiking ammonia? No one looked extra fat on Sunday or Monday.
Bonus tank pic with a nice covering of new tank algae, everything has been in there for about 10 days now and doing well...tank will be all soft corals mostly leathers and mushrooms.
After having him for a few days, I had a heater issue which caused a 3-4 degree temp drop from ~77.5-78.0 to ~74 (heater was in the return chamber and was too far out of the water...it's since been moved to avoid that happening again).
When I noticed the temp issue, I fixed the heater and the water slowly warmed back up to temp, but I haven't seen the goby since. Inverts in the tank are a small emerald crab (fingernail size), small skunk cleaner (smaller than most pep shrimp), pompom crab, 2 red legs and a couple small snails (notice the theme - everything small). Haven't had an ammonia spike at all, and I thoroughly checked around the tank (though there's a screen...he could fit beside it), and in the back (though there's a mesh guard over the overflow slits), and all throughout the rock, no luck so far. Been missing since Sunday afternoon so 2 days now.
Could he be hiding? Could the CUC have devoured him entirely without spiking ammonia? No one looked extra fat on Sunday or Monday.
Bonus tank pic with a nice covering of new tank algae, everything has been in there for about 10 days now and doing well...tank will be all soft corals mostly leathers and mushrooms.
