So I bought three bartletts anthias about a year ago. They were small, pale and skinny. After good feeding all this time they are fat and happy, and the male now much bigger and brighter than the other two. The males fins have grown out nice and he's a pink/purple with bright yellow and blue dorsal. I come home today and he is gone! I hunt and hunt till I finally find him hiding in the overflow. So after trying about thirty mins and my arm getting tired, because my tank top is up over my head and it's a deep overflow, I decide to drain the overflow to get him out. Finally I have get him in the net. I drop him into the main tank and he swims right into my BTA. I jump up on my ladder and try to swat him out but its too late. My BTA ate my 4" male Bartletts anthias. I wish I could just go into a store and buy another but I've never seen one for sale like this one was.
I guess most people who keep BTA's have had this happen, I have lost some fish to this problem, but the worst was a 6" Naso tang I got from John Mann. What was so sad is it was too big to swallow, so it just held it until dead and let it go. Sorry for your loss.
thanks, thats crazy about the bta and the naso tang. I am definitely going to get some overflow covers. I have had too many fish jump in there.
Norman and Calvin did an awsome cover diy at my house at one of our meeting several months ago. It was made out of alluminum screen framing and a clear mesh that does not inhibit light penetration You might want to pm them about it - they built the demonstration cover in like 15 minutes and it looked great.
