if you cant find a fish, what does that mean?

gagaliya

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yes i think this has been asked before, i have 5 cory cat aenus, 16 guppies, zebra danios and whiteclouds. One of my favorite guppy yellow+blue (like a mini version of bosemani rainbow) has a split taill when shipped to me. So i was checking on him every day to see if the tail is healing. But today i CANNOT find him anywhere, my tank is not that big only 50g and a seaclear. So i could see every little area in the tank, but he's NOWHERE to be found. Checked filter as well, nothing. What does that mean exactly? could other fish actually eat him completely after he's dead? my cherry red shrimps arent here yet, so only way is if other fishes ate him?!?!

i am at complete loss, please help

 

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check to make sure he didn't jump. I had a danio randomly disappear about a month and a half ago. Found him the other day in my bedroom on the floor, very much dead. (my tank is in the living room BTW). I think he jumped into a pile of clothes, so that is why I never found him.

 

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• Mar 13, 2006

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have you checked in , around and under stuff??

 

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• Mar 13, 2006

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I know I've completly lost fish in my 29 gallon tank, only to find a dead fish carcass under a rock when I was doing some aquarium cleaning. It's always possible he died due to stress and the other fish decided to eat him.

 

gagaliya

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can those small community fishes actually eat another dead fish to the bones? i designed my tank in such a way that there is no little tiny places where fish can get stuck, it's just 2 big decor with 2 huge openings and rest are big leafed silk plants. So dont think he's stuck under somewhere. Checked floor etc...

argg

 

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Zebra Danio
FOOD: Flakes; live; Drosophila , other insects, insect larvae, crustaceans; occasionally algae.

White Cloud
FOOD: Live; insects, Brine Shrimp, Daphnia, Tubifex, insect larvae; flakes.

Guppy
FOOD: Live; worms, insects, insect larvae, crustaceans; flakes

After doing a little research on those 3 species, I'd definitly say flesh is on the menu. Even if its not normally other fish, once somethings dead its usually fair game in the wild.

 

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completely off topic but I love your avatar plainzwalker

 

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Most fish will eat dead fish. If a fish disappears like that, it's my experience that it's either jumped, dead and been eaten, or hiding very well. Some fish are very, very good hiders.

 

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• Mar 14, 2006

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I vote for he's stuck under something or has jumped out. Take your hood off and look in all the nooks and crannies of it. None of your fish are capable of eatting the bones and skull IMO. The cories may have been dragging/pushing the body around and somehow shoved it under a plant base or something. Do you have cats or dogs? Mine would have jumped at the chance to play with and eat a flopping fish on the floor. Dang, that is a morbid post. I hope you can figure out what happened to him. If not I guess the alien fishnappers got him

 

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• Mar 14, 2006

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poor guppy... i hope he is just hiding