Fish Disappears

[J_acon]

Anyone ever lost a fish your tank. Where one day you see him and the next you can't and there is not even a corpse.

 

[David]

Yup this means

a. It has been eaten or

b. It got sucked into filter

 

[cutechic]

Yep, a number of times. I've attributed the fishes' lack of remains to my other fishes' hungry appetites.

 

[NinjaSmurf]

Just lost two in the last week *grumle grumble*



All I needed was a corpse!!!!


I need closure!!!!!!!

 

[Scales]

Yep me too ive lost 4 neon tetras this week, did see one of my congo tetras munching on one, dont know where the others have gone probably the same way.

 

[Nauplii]

YES!! i have i just lost 2 cat fish and also 2 khulis and some other lil fish of mine previously
strange isnt it

 

[Logitech]

Yes, that has happened to me. Kinda eerie, no fish and no corpse. I always check the filter to see if it's in there but it usually isn't. Then I check around the tank to see if it jumped out and it didn't. So it probably means my other fish ate it.

 

[Angry_Platy]

Yup....a neon tetra a few days ago...I took all ornaments out of the tank...checked in filters...NOTHING....but one of my platies was looking a little "large"

Whats worse is when you find a dead dried up fish that you never knew was missing in the first place...it had been "out of the tank" for quite sometime and I never even missed it...

I'm a really good fish-mum...huh?

 

[Tropjunky]

happend to me too

 

[SConrad]

two times as a matter of fact!!!
i lost a swordtail while i was on vacation and my brother swears it didn't die..and then i lost this tiger barb once...found him literally months later underneath the tank stand alll dried up and stuff..ew X)

 

[NinjaSmurf]

My brother had eels, and one disappeared, here we found out it had gone up into the filter where the good water comes out and had jumped from there. We found a green dried up shriveled stick a week later under the living room chair.

 

[David]

Seems like neons are the most likely to disappear... I wonder why.

 

[ketyana]

I have had neons disappear too I have had others disappear but nomally find some trace of remains when I follow up with a suction through the substrate

But I have a fairly small tank (about 30 gallons uk) and I can sit for 1/2 an hour doing a fish count and be down by a few which are then there next time

It is not densely planted at all, no reason I can think off that would cause me to 'lose' two or three fish, of different types at a time which then come back later!

I do know that when i try to catch my barbs the last one or two can bury themselves head first in the substrate to hide for capture but these are rarely the ones missing

 

[JacopoFishy]

uh-oh, I just bought neons!

sometimes my fishies swim wayyy up inside the conch shell that I have in my tank, hope none of them decide to swim up in there and die?

 

[J_acon]

Wow, guess i am not alone. I just found it weird. One guppy and one swordtail missing and no corpse. How hungry can those fish get? i mean it was only one day. Scary