What A Nice Man...

[eaglesaquarium]

I would keep your eye on it. I had a rasbora recently who was doing that. Was hanging out at the bottom part of the time, then shoaling with the others part of the time. I found him dead stuck to the filter about a week later. I think it was being bullied a bit by my lone zebra danio. (I am still looking to rehome it.)

 

[Caprichoso]

Looks like you have a sulky tetra.

Probably would wear a hoody if it could.


Tom

"Emo" tetra!

 

[willowstwin]

Haha emo tetra. new breed

He's worrying me a little now though I fed them this morning and he didnt eat. The others don't seem to be bullying him, infact they seem to go up to him, wait in front of him, swim off a little, and go back when he doesn't follow I'm keeping my eye on him, but fish aren't like mammals, you cant take it to a vet and say "he's poorly"...

by the way, on a feeding front, I've noticed they wait for the flakes to sink before they feed. Is this normal? and will I have to get some pellet type food that sinks for when I get the gourami? I don't want them to starve because a bigger fish hoovers all the food up

 

[willowstwin]

errm... ok, I think I may have neon pirahnas, not neon tetras... the fish is missing... and I mean missing missing... no body, no bones, no fishy... had everything out of the tank, even took the filter apart... no sign of him can 4 little tetras really demolish a corpse in under 8 hours, or am I going insane? (bearing in mind he was alive when I left for work, and they'd just had a feed)

 

[This Old Spouse]

errm... ok, I think I may have neon pirahnas, not neon tetras... the fish is missing... and I mean missing missing... no body, no bones, no fishy... had everything out of the tank, even took the filter apart... no sign of him can 4 little tetras really demolish a corpse in under 8 hours, or am I going insane? (bearing in mind he was alive when I left for work, and they'd just had a feed)

I'd be looking around on the floor or anywhere it might have jumped to.

 

[Caprichoso]

Haha emo tetra. new breed

He's worrying me a little now though I fed them this morning and he didnt eat. The others don't seem to be bullying him, infact they seem to go up to him, wait in front of him, swim off a little, and go back when he doesn't follow I'm keeping my eye on him, but fish aren't like mammals, you cant take it to a vet and say "he's poorly"...

by the way, on a feeding front, I've noticed they wait for the flakes to sink before they feed. Is this normal? and will I have to get some pellet type food that sinks for when I get the gourami? I don't want them to starve because a bigger fish hoovers all the food up

They will come to the surface eventually. Sometimes the bright light spooks them. I turn on my dim LED light in the morning for my fish because I have Ghost Catfish and they really don't like light. This allows me to see them feeding which is really quite cool. Gourami will feed from the surface as well.

 

[willowstwin]

It can't jump out Spouse... I have a hinged enclosed lid with only small holes at the back big enough for the heater and filter wires to go through (it's vented above the light housing for air don't worry). I checked everywhere, took the filter apart, took out the ornaments, looked though the plants... Nowhere..

As for feeding, I didn't turn the light on this morning, and 2 did go to the surface to feed. Was nice to see.

Thing that worries me is... no fish, no body, not even any bones, and yet the odd piece of broken off plant I didn't manage to get out, they were trying to eat last night... so I don't think it was eaten... really puzzling me now

 

[This Old Spouse]

That is strange. I lost a pleco like that once. And I recently broke down that tank and stripped it of everything to switch from gravel to sand, and there was no evidence that it had ever been there.

 

[willowstwin]

The other 4 devoured their food this morning... so I don't see how they could be hungry if they ate their brother, bones n all... it's been bugging me, but it's the only explaination I can find... they're neon pirahnas! water levels are still fine... gonne add a few more tetras at the weekend to up the bioload. Lets hope they dont eat the newbs