Missing Glow Light Tetra

[debiasir]

Hi forum

I added 4 glowlights and 3 guppies to my tank yesterday that allready homes 5 cories (2 albino and 3 bronze)

i can now not find a glowlight and am left with 3. the missing one is no where to be seen and i am wondering if he died in the night can the cories or guppies have consumed the body overnight?

thanks

 

[Ami]

Hi Debiasir

Poor little fishey.

You're glowlight's body could be lurking around the filter or he could just be hiding. I'm not sure of your tank set up, but that is an option.

Small fish like neons can die and then their bodies breakdown very quickly in the warm enviroment of a tank.

Oh - if he has been eaten I think it's more likely that the other glowlights are the culprits!

Ami

 

[debiasir]

hi Ami thanks for the response

def not in the filter, couldn't of jumped out either.

ah gutted. think i will buy 3 more next week to increase numbers though just a shame this little fella did not live long

 

[bogwood]

I doubt any of your fish could have eaten the 'dead' Glowlight in 24hrs... I bet he's hiding... or stuck in your filter/under an ornament... or maybe he 'jumped' and is stuck in the canopy somewhere?... could he have jumped out of the tank completely? Look down the back for a dry and crispy body?!...

 

[love_fish]

One of my neons went missing too. There is barely any opening in the top of the tank for him to jump out, so I outruled that. Then 2 days later I found his body against the wall. So he may have jumped out.

 

[jonny-5]

Hi I also had this problem,i added 5 glowlights to my already established 5 ft tank which houses loads of small - medium tropicals,upon feeding the next day i noticed 1 was missing....after searching the tank and ornaments,this baffled me a lot anyway recently having work done on my house i had to move my tank (and yes it was very hard work ) and the fish tuned up when i pulled my cabinet out,this is 2 months later.Yes it was dead(for the thick ppl) but it still had skin and could defo see it was my little glowlight.I was so shocked as to how far they can jump,must of saw its chance while my back was turned!

 

[SamUK]

i was once moving 3 guppys back to my big tank and they where floating in a bowl on the surface of the tank.

i thought they mite jump out so i tucked the bowl at one end of the tank under the glass lip and only about an inch of the bowl wasnt covered.


came back 10 mins later and the bowl was empty.

saw the guppies in the tank and altho a lil shocked i didnt think much of it till i noticed one of them was missing the nxt day.


poor guppy had missed the tank and landed on the floor behind it.



i was well sad when i found her cos she was the mother to all my fry and the first guppy i ever bought!





also to back up the stuck under an ornament theory. one of my angels (about 3") wedged itself under a rock in my tank.

lucky bastard it was too cos i only saw it cos i looked down the end of my tank instead of the front.

 

[DragonLass]

As others have suggested, definately check your substrate and under ornaments thoroughly.
One thing I have noticed in my time of fishkeeping is that when fish are close to dying, they automatically try to find the best hiding spot they can. I'm guessing this is a survival mechanism. Anyway, often the best hiding spot is to be wedged under an ornament or rock. Or indeed, burrowed into the substrate itself. Particuarly for a small tetra, it would be very easy for them to slip into a gap between gravel pieces.

I would do a good substrate vacuum as a way of checking.

 

[Milkshake_]

I had some harlquins, somehow they kept getting sick, and I've niticed that my fish don't eat eachother because I will always find a tail and then the rest of the fish threwout the day. You may have the same thing. Also I have a strong filter and even sick fish can get away from the sucky thing. I've never had this happen but other people have that if a fish is being bullied it will go inside the filter to get away, also they will jump out of the tank to get away as well, but I have a tite glass cover so my hatchet fish cant get away. If you have a fast flowing filter it could have made the tetra hide or it could have broke apart the body faster. Doing a gravel cleaning is a good idea even if you never find it because his body will have poluted the water or is decomposing under some gravel. Do cat fish have teeth? If not I don't think they would have eaten it, or do you feed them sinking tablets? They may be in the habit of eating anything that looks like patentail food that is on the bottem. Thats what my gobies do anyways though they are carnivors not omnivors so they wouldnt hesitate. You probably won't find him so I hope your others grow big and strong, can you tell if they are male or females yet?

 

[Katchan]

i was once moving 3 guppys back to my big tank and they where floating in a bowl on the surface of the tank.
i thought they mite jump out so i tucked the bowl at one end of the tank under the glass lip and only about an inch of the bowl wasnt covered.
came back 10 mins later and the bowl was empty.
saw the guppies in the tank and altho a lil shocked i didnt think much of it till i noticed one of them was missing the nxt day.

Sounds like a couple betta's I had. I thought I would try my hand at breeding so I put them in glass jars next to each to get to know each other, I come back after half hour or so and she's jumped from her jar into his and their playing nice nice together

Andrew