Why Do These Things Happen?

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hi everyone, came home from work today to find the leopard plec dead, i was going to take him to my lfs tomoro aswell as he was a rescue from a tiny tank! i dont understand why hes died, been in there around two weeks, waiting until the xmas rush settled down, everything else in the tank is perfect, even got baby swordtails last week, although i cant find any now! why why why!
 
Check your water stats ?
Did he have somewhere to hide ? Rocks, or bogwood etc ?
You mean the babys have gone AWOL ? - what other fish are in there which could have eaten them ? If the babys were small, like new borns, strong filters would suck them up too.
 
theres all sorts in there, mostly live barers, so im guessing they have probably been eaten. i have a flying fox which is a bit of a bully and really territorial of his bogwood and, the floor basically, so he could have been stressed out by him cos the stupid fish stresses me out when i watch him being horrible! water stats are 0, 0, 20, i do weekly 25% water changed, give or take a few mls obviously! everything has ben perfect! my rams are even doing that wafting of the substrate buisness, and my female now has a BRIGHT magenta belly, so all is looking good! i think the most likely reason is the fox being horrible!

forgot to say about the things that are in there, loads of bogwood, lots of varieties of artifical plants! i feel in general, normal flakes, frozen foods, veg mix, daphnia, bloodworms, tubifex, and fresh veg like deshelled peas, corgette! not all at once, but they are the varieties of foods that i feed!
 
How many gallons is the tank (or measurements of the tank if you don't know) and how many fish do you have in the tank exactly and what types and their sizes too roughly? How often do you clean the substrate in the tank (is it gravel?) Have you tested the tank recently with an accurate test kit for ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and ph and if so, what results did you get?
 

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