Where did my pleco go?!?!?!

I put my BN pleco and betta in a temporary 10 gallon holding tank because I bought a rhapiodon vulpinus for their tank and didn't think it would be a safe mix.

I have a broken pipe and hollow car decoration in the tank and blue gravel. I haven't seen my pleco in a while so I put an algae wafer in the tank last night and this morning it was still there. I took out all the decorations and he is not in them. I checked very thoroughly and saw nothing in them. He is not in the tank, not in the filter, I have no idea where he is. The tank is on the bottom on a microwave cart with a guppy tank on the top. There is a back, so he isn't behind it and there are two sides too so he could have only gone forward if he got out, but I don't see him. I have a plastic lid on the tank too.

He was as big as the betta so he wasn't eaten. Can plecos even escape from tanks? Where could mine have gone?

Chrisinator said:

Look around in your decorations and around your tank. Anything could have happen. I suspect he's hiding in your decoration.

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I only have two, the first one is just like a hollow bowl on the inside and I didn't see him in it. In the broken pipe decoration I took it out to look really closely and saw nothing and he didn't scurry out. I looked in the narrow section where he could have been stuck, but there was nothing.