Disappearing Act

[Spine]

I have a pair of albino bristle nose in a 20g high. I added a couple dwarf rainbows(furcatus) to the tank and they disappeared. I found one on the floor and just assumed the other did the same. I just put in 5 more the other day and now everyone is gone I checked the tank and floor I can't find a trace

I seem to remember hearing that bristle nose don't bother small fish,fry, plants etc. I guess I was wrong huh,anyone else experience losses do to bristle nose?

 

[jonclark96]

I've chalked up lost batches of wigglers/fry to BN's, but never noticed anything larger than newly hatched fish to go missing...

 

[Frank Cowherd]

Do you have a cat???? Or other animal running around the house.}||??

 

[Spine]

Do you have a cat???? Or other animal running around the house.}||??

No other pets

 

[toddnbecka]

BN pleco's aren't even particularly inclined to eat dead fish IME, certainly no threat to live rainbows. Nothing else in the tank aside from the BN and the (MIA) furcatas?

 

[hollyfish2000]

I've raised rainbow cichlid fry with a very large BN with no issues. That is very odd . . . Check your filter? Hiding somewhere. I've always been amazed at how even fairly large fish can "disappear" in a not-huge tank only to be hiding.

 

[Spine]

Only other fish are a pair of juvie apistos that are the same size or a little smaller than the furcatas. I opened up filters and turned over driftwood.

I'll try it one more time I'll just keep a eye on things I was busy this weekend and didn't look at the tank much.

 

[verbal]

How "juvie" are the apistos? I don't have a ton of experience with apistos, but apparently they can have a broad range in behavior. I normally wouldn't suspect them, but due to the lack of other suspects, they would be the most likely culprit. They could either have killed them or chased them out of the tank.

 

[Spine]

How "juvie" are the apistos? I don't have a ton of experience with apistos, but apparently they can have a broad range in behavior. I normally wouldn't suspect them, but due to the lack of other suspects, they would be the most likely culprit. They could either have killed them or chased them out of the tank.

The apistos are 1/4in. so I don't think they are big enough to do any damage. I searched the tank and floor and I can't find a thing. Even if the other fish had killed them there would still be some evidence left after only two days

 

[dogofwar]

Expand the circle of dried fish searching... those little buggers can travel amazingly far out of the water...

Once found a dried chalceus under a loveseat 20+ feet across the room (like 3 months after it "disappeared")...

Matt

 

[Tony]

They must have been in collaboration with the rummy-noses that I got from the auction the other day. Threw them in the 150 and the next day, they were gone...?

Fish teleportation anyone?

 

[ezrk]

They must have been in collaboration with the rummy-noses that I got from the auction the other day. Threw them in the 150 and the next day, they were gone...?

Fish teleportation anyone?

I regularly find demasoni fry IN our Rena cannister filter. They seem to do fine after I rescue them...