disappearing fish...

[Magnum Man]

OK, yes, so fish do disappear, and or hide all the time, but it can be amazing how a big, thin fish, like an angel, or silver dollar, can disappear... my only angel fish or silver dollars right now, are larger mature fish, and there has been times, I've spent 15-20 minutes looking for them... these particular fish are all the more dominant in their tanks, and don't try to hide, but even being large, and not appearing to "try" to be hiding, can be hard to see... big as life from the side, but so thin, they can be difficult to see from the front or back...

 

[AJ356]

Maybe jumped out

 

[Magnum Man]

I always find them, they are just so thin, that they can seemingly disappear

 

[TwoTankAmin]

Maybe you need stronger glasses?

 

[GaryE]

Camouflage isn't just colour, but shape. Some of my fish are amazing. I've drained tanks down to 2 cm, and had fish evade capture. I DO need stronger glasses, but these fish have skills.

 

[gwand]

I have been searching for a female a. cacatuoides since June 16. I have searched and probed the entire tank both in daylight and night time. Hide and go seek. She is either extremely good at stealth or she has passed into the black hole in a corner of the tank.

 

[MaloK]

I lost a pleco for 3 weeks in a tank that only had one rock in the middle. I checked all around and never figured where it was.

I thought it died and the others snacked on it... But one day it was there.

 

[GaryE]

Banjo catfish. I had them in an undergravel filter set up, and they moved in under the plate. About every six months I'd see them, always larger and very robust, until one year they stopped appearing.

 

[TwoTankAmin]

It has been known for years by some in the fish keeping community that alien abductions are not limited to human beings.They will also take fish and then return them. Many keepers are not aware of this and so come to other conclusions. Unfortunately, the fish can not let us know where they have been since they cannot talk.

 

[Uberhoust]

I have had other fish disappear, especially bristle noses but the angels are always begging for more food.

 

[anewbie]

My large angles hang out in the open usually near my desk in the 600. However in the 500 i have a couple of 10 inch pleco i usually don't see (or can find) but once or twice a year. Want to take about amazing at hiding; these suckers are large - in total mass larger than my chocolate cicihld yet poof they are gone not to be seen for many months.

The other day i found a 1 inch honeycomb bn in my 180; i didn't even know i had pleco frys much less 1 inch critters roaming around. Heck i don't even see the adults but once or so a month and it has been at least 3 months since i've seen the male.... but of course pleco hiding is nothing special. The only dwarf cichild i ahve hiding right now are the a. wolli - for 4 months i didn't see them - i didn't even know if i had a male until frys started showing up.

 

[gwand]

I’m going to place locator micro chips in my fish.

 

[anewbie]

I’m going to place locator micro chips in my fish.

Be sure to get some small ones in case you end up with frys; they might be a great way to track who eats who

 

[MaloK]

I also had guppies vanish for days, then reappear during a filter cleanup.

Some looked a little rough, but they survived.