Chromis Vs. RBTA

[Inconservatory]

Hi all,

When it comes to feeding time, I'm usually greeted lovingly by my green chromis. Today, however, I spied one less chromis than was to be expected. I'm not sure what happened to the little chap. After doing a full water test, I've found my ammonia to be higher than the norm (0.50ppm), but the rest of the levels are normal.

I'm not sure what the cause of death would be (with the ammonia spike, I assume it's dead). A few days ago, while feeding my rose bubble tipped anemone, one chromis rushed into the cnidarian to steal the food, but quickly regretted that action. Would a quick sting from an RBTA be enough to kill a green chromis, or is there something else happening in my tank which I should be wary of?

As far as possible threats living within the aquarium, there is a coral banded shrimp, two peppermint shrimp, a hammer coral, frogspawn, and the RBTA. Any thoughts or related experiences?

Thanks

 

[chris27]

RBTA's are usually a pretty good tank mate, but I've seen them eat fish before...were you able to find the carcass?

A buddy of mine actually has pictures of his eating a Naso Tang - that wasn't a good day.

 

[Inconservatory]

Wow, that's terrible for your buddy! How big were the RBTA and Naso? Was the tang in poor health, or just not fast enough?

I haven't seen any physical evidence of a fish left to rot (which rarely ever happens in a labyrinth of rockwork and plethora of little scavengers, but the RBTA did look a little stuffed for a couple of days.

 

[trido]

If your tank is set up with enough LR and has adequate skimming and flow. A single dead chromis should not be causing an ammonia spike. Unless of course its a 5G nano.

 

[rrcg50]

mine bta eat 2 snocassos and 2 grade a ora picassos.

 

[Inconservatory]

Your BTA ate your clowns?! What a betrayal of trust that must have been! Was it just too big for them?

 

[ango917]

i have had a RBTA and chromis for awhile and have not run into this problem. if the chromis are small, alot of times they are fragile and small functuations in chemistry/ammonia can do them in

 

[snailcrazy]

I had a rbta for a couple of years. It got pretty big but never lost any fish to it.

 

[FreakinReefin]

Hi all,

When it comes to feeding time, I'm usually greeted lovingly by my green chromis. Today, however, I spied one less chromis than was to be expected. I'm not sure what happened to the little chap. After doing a full water test, I've found my ammonia to be higher than the norm (0.50ppm), but the rest of the levels are normal.

I'm not sure what the cause of death would be (with the ammonia spike, I assume it's dead). A few days ago, while feeding my rose bubble tipped anemone, one chromis rushed into the cnidarian to steal the food, but quickly regretted that action. Would a quick sting from an RBTA be enough to kill a green chromis, or is there something else happening in my tank which I should be wary of?

As far as possible threats living within the aquarium, there is a coral banded shrimp, two peppermint shrimp, a hammer coral, frogspawn, and the RBTA. Any thoughts or related experiences?

Thanks

My Coral Banded Shrimp attacked and ate my Scooter Blenny...I was pissed.

 

[Inconservatory]

Ugh, Freakin, the CBS is a terribly cute menace. I watched him grab a serpent star out of the rockwork and start devouring it. Although a turkey baster won't teach him not to do it again, I can rest easy knowing that one star can live to fight another day. The CBS walks all over the corals, and even steps on the RBTA!

You have a good point, though. There's a pretty high chance that the shrimp caught a weakened chromis and had its nasty way with the poor lil' bugger.

 

[Dutch-1969]

Just like in my tank, yesterdat morning, I was missing one Gromis, could not find him anywhere, suddenly at feeding time, I see one of my Blue Leg Hermit holding a Gromis .........

Han

 

[bigblue141]

I have a ton of crabs in my tank and always see the same fish.

 

[Inconservatory]

I have a ton of crabs in my tank and always see the same fish.

See the fish getting eaten? :?:

 

[Inconservatory]

See the fish getting eaten? :?:

Oh, you see them *alive.* Nevermind! I ended up finding a new home for the CBS just to be safe.

 

[bigblue141]

Never lost a fish to a shrimp or a crab. I even had an arrow crab for about 6 months and he just up and died one day. He took up an area an inch or two bigger than a soft ball. He'd eat an entire silverside twice a week.

He'd run up to the top of the tank and take it from my hand. I miss the little feller.

 

[OCDreefer]

Chromis on Chromis violence is my guess