Scooter blenny died suddenly?

[Rick's Reviews]

So as you know I love my mandarin and scooter blenny, deffenitly VIP in my aquriam.
yesterday I found the poor little guy/girl getting churned up in my wavemaker, I assume it died and just got sucked in, it' has not shown any signs of distress, it gets plenty of various foods including, I don't know if possible to overfeeding but alot of pods, I do also have a Mandarin. Flame was eating bloodworms occasionally.

It definitely was not starved, I think I got her in December, I'm so gutted

 

[Saltyreef]

So as you know I love my mandarin and scooter blenny, deffenitly VIP in my aquriam.
yesterday I found the poor little guy/girl getting churned up in my wavemaker, I assume it died and just got sucked in, it' has not shown any signs of distress, it gets plenty of various foods including, I don't know if possible to overfeeding but alot of pods, I do also have a Mandarin. Flame was eating bloodworms occasionally.

It definitely was not starved, I think I got her in December, I'm so gutted

What size is your tank again?

I hate to say it but it looks rather small to sustain 2 pod eaters. I could be wrong though.
Maybe luck got them both this far?

Sorry for your loss. I hate when my VIP fish suddenly go belly up

 

[Rick's Reviews]

45g 200 litres, 10 bags of pods monthly, also live artemia daily'ish maybe a day or two in-between for cleaning ... It was churned up that much I did not recognise until I pulled it out

 

[Tamberav]

Sometimes fish die and it is no fault of our own and we may never know the reason why as most people don't know how to do a fish autopsy.

I had 6 dragonetts in a 29g for about 5 years. It was easy to see they were getting enough pods as they were fat bellied and the pods were on the glass and everywhere and when I would trim the macro the bigger amphipods were running like cockroaches, was kind of gross.

Probably more efficient to set up a tank that can keep pods thriving in large numbers then to add 10 bags a month. idk.

 

[Uncle99]

Same for me, have a spotted mandarin with a scooter.
One day just found the scooter dead, not torn up, just dead.
I still have the mandarin three years later now.

Maybe two males?
IDK but coincidentally, same outcome for me.

 

[Saltyreef]

45g 200 litres, 10 bags of pods monthly, also live artemia daily'ish maybe a day or two in-between for cleaning ... It was churned up that much I did not recognise until I pulled it out

Sad. Yea not a normal place for the SB to be hanging out it seems.
I agree with most of the above sentiment after seeing your pod feeding regimine!!

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Sad. Yea not a normal place for the SB to be hanging out it seems.
I agree with most of the above sentiment after seeing your pod feeding regimine!!

Please enlighten me as I tried my best, I cycled empty for 8 months to build up pod population?,

 

[Saltyreef]

Please enlighten me as I tried my best, I cycled empty for 8 months to build up pod population?,

As in i agree sometimes fish just die beyond reasons known unless an autopsy was performed by a knowledgable person.

You did good man.

 

[vetteguy53081]

Hard to say what took this fish down especially after death but was a beauty.
It can be spikes of some sort, unknown injury, internal, atmospheric and the list goes on

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Makes more sense
Thank you,

As in i agree sometimes fish just die beyond reasons known unless an autopsy was performed by a knowledgable person.

You did good man.

Thank you, makes more sense

 

[Rick's Reviews]

Hard to say what took this fish down especially after death but was a beauty.
It can be spikes of some sort, unknown injury, internal, atmospheric and the list goes on

you helped me with mandarin with weird growth.thank you. it just threw me off because I thought I had researched as much as possible