Dame them fish

[bigfish]

well as you know i went out and bought

4 Silver Tipped Tetras
1 Glassblood Fin Tetra
3 Rummynose Tetras
and 2 Dwarf red Gourami's

Did my usual float the bag, opened it, added water every 10mins for 1/2 hour and let them go into their new home.

Left the light off for the rest of the night, went to bed, woke up went to check my new arrivals and guess wot........................................................................


Found my 2 Dwarf red Gourami's (no problem)
only 1 Sliver tipped Tetra (other 3 are missing)
no sign of my rummynose Tetras!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
no sign of the Glassbloodfin Tetra either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I'm soooooo gutted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question is where they go

I know it was a full moon last night but this is radilous

 

[WILDER]

Look in tank ornaments and filter, if it is a juwel filter box remove filter sponge case and shine a torch into the box.

 

[sylvia]

Do you have anything that could have devoured them? Could they have jumped? Could they be stuck in/under something? Have you deffinately looked EVERYWHERE in the tank (well if they're not on the floor and you have looked EVERYWHERE they must have been eaten...)?

 

[Sorrell]

I agree with looking in all decorations and then around the outside of the tank Full moons trigger changes in barometric pressure which can lead fish to jump. Also check your water parameters, high levels can cause jumping as well

 

[SirMinion]

Full moon is when most alien abductions happen too. Maybe your fish will be returned in 30 years with strange eldritch powers....

 

[Danno]

SirMinion - Posted on Nov 30 2004, 12:54 AM - Full moon is when most alien abductions happen too. Maybe your fish will be returned in 30 years with strange eldritch powers....

Ok this is what I would recommend. But first I will explain why I have this recommendation. When my Plattys had fry they found hidding spots in the fake rocks. The rock had two holes in the side to let water go in it. When I was doing a gavel vacuum after seeing the horrable news (thats what I thought at the moment anyways....) I saw a little Patty baby head poking out of the hole in the rock. So I gentally picked up the rock and pored the water into the 2.5 gallon tank for my guppy and platty fry. I ended up with all 4 platty's fry with a total of 71 fry . So thats why I would check INSIDE your ornaments. Also I would check UNDER the gavel. My neon tetra loves to burry under my sand. Dunno why. He just loves it. ( psssst...I think he is on aquarium crack ) ANYWAYS! enough about me. So overall check under your gravel and check inside your fake rocks or whatever if you have any.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Aquarium crack... that might explain my fish


I hate when they get in the gravel, because you want or sometimes need to fish them out (pun not intended originally, but it works!) and it's hard because I think I'm going to squish them. So I'd agree with checking ALL the stuff in the tank, but only after a quick look at the floor. If they're in the tank their okay, but if there on the floor and you don't find them fast enough....

 

[pnyklr3]

I have a bristlenose plec that I don't see for days, or weeks, on end. Once I was worried and shook out and tipped over all of my decorations. Nothing. I figured out which one he was in and look in (too big and dark) and couldn't find him. I even pulled it out of the water slowly to encourage him to drop lower. Nothing. He evn stayed put when I pulled the whole thing out. I have seen him since, so he's not dead . If nothing could have eaten it, I would just assume they were hiding. On the flip side, I did find a carcass (only bones) in my tank that wasn't there the night before. I did a head count, and realized that I had lost a blackline tetra. Once it was dead on the bottom of the tank, the clown loaches did a number on it! Couldn't even really tell what I was looking at.