Crisis Averted...

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What a day!!!

After having not seen my smaller BN for the best part of a week I decided to have a hunt for her today. I put some cucumber in last night to hopefully tempt her out, but no such long. Instead Cpt Birdseye (my orange BN) had a feast all to himself.
-_-

After doing my usual gravel clean i moved around the two larger bits of bogwood and shuffled around some plants (i do this every so often with the usual bit of gardening) still no luck.
After about 2hours from start to finish manouvering bits and pieces, still no sign of her. I'm beginning to think Cpt Beye may have bullied the poor thing to death :-( Although i've never seen them argue.
I topped up the water, and turned off the lights to let the fish calm down a bit. Poor things, being subjected to so much abuse in one hit. (apologies fishies)

I went out to go grab a towel, and come back in the room to find my ''missing'' BN stuck firmly to the front glass, in a seemingly smug fashion :rolleyes: She also looked much bigger than I remember, unless it was just my eyes!
Does anyone else have a fish that will disappear for a few days? I know plecs and BN alike do have a habit of being quite shy sometimes... but it got me very worried!!

Ho hum, maybe she's just being the typical elusive female. :lol:

Skittles
 
What a day!!!

After having not seen my smaller BN for the best part of a week I decided to have a hunt for her today. I put some cucumber in last night to hopefully tempt her out, but no such long. Instead Cpt Birdseye (my orange BN) had a feast all to himself.
-_-

After doing my usual gravel clean i moved around the two larger bits of bogwood and shuffled around some plants (i do this every so often with the usual bit of gardening) still no luck.
After about 2hours from start to finish manouvering bits and pieces, still no sign of her. I'm beginning to think Cpt Beye may have bullied the poor thing to death :-( Although i've never seen them argue.
I topped up the water, and turned off the lights to let the fish calm down a bit. Poor things, being subjected to so much abuse in one hit. (apologies fishies)

I went out to go grab a towel, and come back in the room to find my ''missing'' BN stuck firmly to the front glass, in a seemingly smug fashion :rolleyes: She also looked much bigger than I remember, unless it was just my eyes!
Does anyone else have a fish that will disappear for a few days? I know plecs and BN alike do have a habit of being quite shy sometimes... but it got me very worried!!

Ho hum, maybe she's just being the typical elusive female. :lol:

Skittles

Sounds like your day has been as fun as mine.. And smug little BN.. little #28### :lol:

And my baby panda's are always vanishing, I get in a right panic!
 
Haha I just noticed your post! God it was awful, brings back memories of when i lost my green phantom L200 to a bacterial infection. Sad times :-(
 
My Clown pleco disappears for days at a time and I do worry that he may have died when I don`t see him, silly really because I know the Clown plecs are known to be shy but it still worries me :look:
 
Thanks Elisew, nice to know i'm not alone worrying about them disappearing!

Rusty, I can normally spot her, never known her to disappear for a week though. Maybe I just haven't been looking hard enough! Hoping it's not the Cpt BN. :unsure:
 
Hmm i'm not sure... There' a fair difference in size.
Cpt is around 3.5inches, she's around 2... She was in there before him, but i guess if he's bigger it wouldn't matter. They barely ever argue, unless they are feeding on the same bit of cucumber/ alage wafer...
 
Nah should be fine I would imagine.

Hmm. Anything else in there that could give her a hard time??
 
:lol: Obviously a wild one there! I've heard corys are prne to having a ''funny five mins''
 
when my b/n used to go
missing i didn't used
to worry in fact i used
to be rubbing my hands
together and thinking
pound signs cause it normally
meant they were breeding
 
My tiny little BN pleco (about 30mm long), isn't seen very often. The missus worries s/he is dead every day but then i'll see it's tail move out of the corner of my eye. The last time i saw him was earlier today when i gave the fish some Daphnia. After a few mins he was hoovering up the sand like a lunatic. It never occured to me that it might love feeding on Daphnia.
 

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