Hello Everyone,
I have recently setup my 32gallon Fiji cube with TBS Liverock. My tank has been up and running for a little over a month now and so far most everything has been running smoothly.
That is until I started to add fish. So far I’ve had a yellow coris wrasse (tiny little guy) put him in the tank and disappeared, then last week a tailspot blenny (gone without a trace), and now a purple firefish goby (disappeared the second evening). I have not found so much as a spec of their existence after they’ve gone missing and while I know two of the three of those fish are known for disappearing the yellow coris wrasse has been gone 3 weeks and the tail spot 4 days. My firefish was active and settled in and all of a sudden gone without a trace. I should mention I have a top over the tank and have checked the floor
I know my tank has a good population of pistol shrimp as I hear them snapping frequently and have caught one already (blue claw only one large one) and have seen at least one other. My plan for eradication is as follows:
1) From now until Sunday I will set multiple bottle traps in my tank baited with raw seafood (probably clams or oysters whatever is at the store).
2) if I am unable to eradicate the shrimp by Sunday I’ll pull the rock out keeping the top layer of live rock in a bucket and take the 4 rocks forming the base that are in contact with the sand out into a hyper saline solution to flush out the buggers.
I already pulled all the rock out once to catch gorilla crabs and I caught about 7 and I know there’s at least two left, but I only took the rock out one at a time and inspected it. I think the shrimp just ran under different rocks in the tank when I lifted the rocks out one at a time.
So my question for the community is if my plan sounds solid? Or would you have any recommendations or tips to help me in my journey to be able to keep fish in my tank.
I have recently setup my 32gallon Fiji cube with TBS Liverock. My tank has been up and running for a little over a month now and so far most everything has been running smoothly.
That is until I started to add fish. So far I’ve had a yellow coris wrasse (tiny little guy) put him in the tank and disappeared, then last week a tailspot blenny (gone without a trace), and now a purple firefish goby (disappeared the second evening). I have not found so much as a spec of their existence after they’ve gone missing and while I know two of the three of those fish are known for disappearing the yellow coris wrasse has been gone 3 weeks and the tail spot 4 days. My firefish was active and settled in and all of a sudden gone without a trace. I should mention I have a top over the tank and have checked the floor
I know my tank has a good population of pistol shrimp as I hear them snapping frequently and have caught one already (blue claw only one large one) and have seen at least one other. My plan for eradication is as follows:
1) From now until Sunday I will set multiple bottle traps in my tank baited with raw seafood (probably clams or oysters whatever is at the store).
2) if I am unable to eradicate the shrimp by Sunday I’ll pull the rock out keeping the top layer of live rock in a bucket and take the 4 rocks forming the base that are in contact with the sand out into a hyper saline solution to flush out the buggers.
I already pulled all the rock out once to catch gorilla crabs and I caught about 7 and I know there’s at least two left, but I only took the rock out one at a time and inspected it. I think the shrimp just ran under different rocks in the tank when I lifted the rocks out one at a time.
So my question for the community is if my plan sounds solid? Or would you have any recommendations or tips to help me in my journey to be able to keep fish in my tank.