Who Is Killing My Plecos? 75 Gallon Tank With Lots Of Fish

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chrisslowness

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Fish list is below.  I have gone through 4 Plecos each one I bought larger but the same result, they provided a meal for one or more fish in the tank I just cannot think of who.  Everyone gets along peacefully in the tank, the little fish under 1" do not have to hide, they school or group or whatever it is called and swim around in unison...its really cool to watch.
 
The population consists of:
12 Red robin fan tail mollies (less than 1" each)
6 Dalmation Mollies (about 2" each)
6 White Mollies (about 2" each)
6 Giant Danios (one is 4" others 2.5")
14 Black Skirt Tetras about 1" each (They school up so well I had to keep buying them, they are awesome to watch)
6 Red Eye Tetras (they group up sometimes but never school)
3 Glow Tetras (these things die so easily I refuse to get any more no matter how cool they look)
1 Headstander 4"
1 Black Tail Barb (the ****ing king of the tank at 5")
1 Rainbow Shark 4"
1 Iridescent Shark 4"
1 Skunk Botia 2.5"
1 Red Tailed Zebra Loach 3"
NO Pleco (was eaten on 3/26 I cannot figure out which fish is randomly eating others)
4 Drawf Guarami males 2" each
1 Pink Kissing Gourami 2.5" (bought 4, someone killed and ate 3 of them)
2 Red drawf crabs (one escaped and died)
3 Crawfish  (1 RIP Black Tail Barb attacked him (gets along with everyone in the tank, he bosses down any fish or other crabs that go after him)
4 Algea eaters (they grow so fast, like 3" each)
4 Dwarf Mollies (funniest looking little fish ever, all under 1")
5 Black Snails
2 Albino Cory (less than 1" each and going to get 4 more they like to group)
PLANTS:
Bamboo Plants
2 Banana Plants
1 African Sword
3 Crab Grass
 
How big are the crawfish? I'd see them as the prime suspects
 
how big is your tank? water stats? and you probably have already been told this but your badly stocked, and unless you have a small ocean overstocked too
 
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Please rehome the ID shark unless you have a 500G tank, and you are overstocked, what are your water stats are with all those fish in a 75?
 
Unlikely, seeing as the OP hasn't logged in since April last year :/
 
Ha ha, didn't check that. As a moderator do you no of any threads/ post with stupidly stocked aquariums that have pictures ? I'd be interesting in seeing the difference of people's views opinions and views is all
 

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