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kpete4
01-30-2008, 11:48 PM
Alright, help me out with this one.

My half black dwarf angel died today. I was expecting it because of the behavior the last day or two. So I got home tonight and went to pull it out of the tank I had a little surprise. The insides of the fish were hanging out of it. The fins were a little ragged but not completely eaten off or anything. The fish didn't seemed to be chewed apart.

Do you think something ripped it's stomach open and left the insides dangling, or did this fish somehow explode?

In the tank: Zebra Dwarf Lionfish, Six-line wrasse, 2 O Clowns, starfish of some sort, couple hermit crabs, and a couple nass snails

Zibba
01-31-2008, 12:18 AM
Sorry to hear about the loss.

My guess is that is died from whatever stresses and the hermit crabs opened up the belly and started eating at the fins while it was dead - they were just naturally cleaning things up.