New Fishes disappear

[doc99337]

Last Sat I added some livestocks. 3pcs of small fish. 1 rainford goby, 1 small yellow wrasse and 1 hi fin banded goby. After they hide in the rocks never see them again until now almost 4 days already. Do you think something praying them? I saw some bristles worm in my live rocks before. I saw it eating dead fish. It is possible that it killed my new fishes? I have one dottyback quite aggressive bullying my small wrasses. It is also my second time to put yellow wrasse with no success. I havent seen any corpse yet. Hope they are still hiding.

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[Bulldozer]

My yellow wrasse hide most of the time for more than 1 week ..

[flo_reeftank]

No worries my wrasse also hide for a period of 1 week to 10 days then slowly come out patience bro

[Land2013]

Maybe u would not see them again. I also had a rainford goby n cant even find the body.

[iskay]

Bristle worms do not hunt fishes but they scavenge and eat dead ones. Bobbit worms are the ones known to ensnare prey.

New fishes will usually hide in a new environment. Some will never be seen again because they starve to death or die due to illness. Proper species compatibility and Proper acclimatization will reduce such risks.

[ReDDeviLs]

dottybacks are quite aggressive which is no suprise it is the cause to your fishes death.

mantis shrimps and crabs can be calpuit too.

[kohanson]

My dottyback is super aggressive and guard its territory without letting any fish go nears it. It has injured my yellowtail damsel and hector goby's fin before. Only my clownfish dare to go near the dottyback. Therefore, check and see if your fish hide in the same cave as the dottyback. If yes then think you got to separate the fish.

[37Alpha]

Me too. I have 5 Bartlett anthias and 1 also went missing suddenly. Body not found too. Not sure what happen as it was still feedin well

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[doc99337]

Update, now my rainFord goby came out. Looks healthy eating some red algea. But the yellow wrasse and hi fin goby haven't came out yet. Hope they are still fine.

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[andrewttw]

Garden eel missing for 10days! Have 3 snails, a starfish, tube worm, doctor shrimp and some fish in my tank. Last sighted under one of the live rocks. Have done 1 water change and 1 rescaping since. Dug through the sand and couldn't find it! Not even a dead skeleton or anything! Freaky!

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[Fukcable Fcuker]

Garden eel missing for 10days! Have 3 snails, a starfish, tube worm, doctor shrimp and some fish in my tank. Last sighted under one of the live rocks. Have done 1 water change and 1 rescaping since. Dug through the sand and couldn't find it! Not even a dead skeleton or anything! Freaky!

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lol =))

[Fukcable Fcuker]

Put an eel into the tank , it wont be able to hide