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Don't you hate it when fish disappear?

Becca

Becca

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While almost all of my fish made the initial move, I've noticed some disappearances in the past week or two.

Gone missing:
Male Dario hysignon
2 Eques Pencilfish
4 Amano Shrimp (I've seen molts, just not the dang shrimp).
1 Valliant's chocolate gourami (one stressed and died shortly after the move, the other male was in the tank eating grindal worms on Saturday but nowhere to be found on Sunday - why is it always the rare/expensive ones?).
A dozen or so cherry shrimp (if they'd all died, the tank would've crashed, and I see molts, but again, where the heck are the shrimp?)

It's one thing to find a body, but I hate when they disappear - it takes everything in my power not to go taking the tank apart looking for them.

Note - these are all in different tanks - not one tank.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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I know what you mean.....to search or not to search. I've had fish that went missing ages before show up in perfectly good health. Sometimes, I just have to shrug and call them Houdini. The more you search, the more you can't find them!
 
cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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I have a rapheal cat that disappears all the time. I thought he was long gone. The other day I took my wood out to cut a piece off. Took a circular saw to it, set it down moved things around put it back. As I returned the wood to the water I saw him dart out to find a new crevice to disappear into.

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Becca

Becca

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cichlidaddicted said:
I have a rapheal cat that disappears all the time. I thought he was long gone. The other day I took my wood out to cut a piece off. Took a circular saw to it, set it down moved things around put it back. As I returned the wood to the water I saw him dart out to find a new crevice to disappear into.

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So much better than where I thought that story was going... eeek.

Raphael cats are another story, though, they are meant to disappear.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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Becca said:
So much better than where I thought that story was going... eeek.

Raphael cats are another story, though, they are meant to disappear.
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Yeah, I was afraid of where that was going, too.

Fortunately, no harm to the Raphael!
 
Localzoo

Localzoo

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Yeah it nuts how in such a relatively small space you can loose fish.
IMHO
They became nocturnal
Or
Shrimp= ninja
Gourami is depressed and hiding
Pencil fish went on a couples retreat and the other guys probably in plain sight.

Hope they're ok and you find them always sucks to loose fish.


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cichlidaddicted

cichlidaddicted

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Becca said:
So much better than where I thought that story was going... eeek.

Raphael cats are another story, though, they are meant to disappear.
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He may be traumatized! I can only imagine what it was like when the saw ripped through the wood. I'm going to have to do a better job looking for hitch hikers when removing decor

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Jmty

Jmty

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bermuda triangle , still looking for some fish????,had removed every thing in tank and ???
 
JLW

JLW

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I'm more alarmed when fish appear.

I have a small ctenepoma -- I think -- of some sort in my personal 92-gallon.

Ask me when I bought it.

Absolutely no clue where this fish came from.
 
F8LBITE

F8LBITE

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For the longest time I thought my fish were dying and getting eaten or sucked into the filter, turns out they were jumping out the back even though I thought it was completely covered. Didn't find out until I broke the tank down and found them on the floor behind the tank.
 
Localzoo

Localzoo

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F8LBITE said:
For the longest time I thought my fish were dying and getting eaten or sucked into the filter, turns out they were jumping out the back even though I thought it was completely covered. Didn't find out until I broke the tank down and found them on the floor behind the tank.
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Tough thing to find.

Becca any luck?


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dogofwar

dogofwar

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I remember coming back from vacation when I was a kid to discover that my Pink Tail Chalceus had "disappeared"...no sign of it. The body of a rotting 10" tetra shouldn't be that hard to find!

We found it a month or so later about 20' away dried under the couch on the other side of the room...

Matt
 
Becca

Becca

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TMSB805 said:
Found a cory sterbai in my sons diaper bag once. haha
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Now that is one place I HAVEN'T checked. I have trouble believing fish could get out of my tanks, and I certainly haven't seen any on the floor, but I guess I'll keep looking.
 
jonclark96

jonclark96

Past CCA President
Are there plecos in any of the tanks with missing fish? I've found that many of my plecos, especially the omnivorous ones, will make short work of a corpse if left to their own accord.
 
chriscoli

chriscoli

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jonclark96 said:
Are there plecos in any of the tanks with missing fish? I've found that many of my plecos, especially the omnivorous ones, will make short work of a corpse if left to their own accord.
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Yep, good point....they're the clean-up crew. I usually only find hints of corpses in the tanks with plecos.
 
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Ballen0351

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dogofwar said:
I remember coming back from vacation when I was a kid to discover that my Pink Tail Chalceus had "disappeared"...no sign of it. The body of a rotting 10" tetra shouldn't be that hard to find!

We found it a month or so later about 20' away dried under the couch on the other side of the room...

Matt
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Wow that's crazy.
 
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