Missing Catfish

[DERECOLA]

OK LAST NIGHT I BOUGHT A BLACK CAT FISH THAT SWIMS AND EATS UPSIDE DOWN.THIS MORNING IT IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. :dive:

[Gumby131]

OK LAST NIGHT I BOUGHT A BLACK CAT FISH THAT SWIMS AND EATS UPSIDE DOWN.THIS MORNING IT IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND. :dive:
you know this could only meen one thing, HES BEEN ABDUCTED BY ALIEMS!!!!! DUM DUM DUUUUM!!!!!!!

[Fish Kate]

Is there anything else alive in the tank? He probably died and was eaten. It's amazing how fast it can happen. Look for telltale extra debris...little white bits and perhaps a scale or two, some little strings of white, gelatinous stuff.

[DERECOLA]

no nothing,i have a small feeder fish and a small pleco in there.

[fIsHy13]

look on the underside of the hood cover, take out all the plants, look behind the filter.

If you can't find him after all that, its a mystery...

[fiske]

It is probably an asian upsidedown cat. They are nocturnal and will wedge themselves under an ornament or something during the day. You will probably see it again tonight after the lights are out.

[DERECOLA]

BAD NEW UPDATE FOUND CATTY ON THE FLOOR BEHIND TANK STAND. :sad:

[tetra21]

Thats too sad, sorry to hear about your loss :(

But now is the time to "jump" proof your tank. Do you have a cover?

[mrgrudge]

If you have a lid, he didn't get out through the cutouts in back for the filter, did he?

Some fish will jump through the smallest hole. When I was a kid I had a little 1.5 gallon globe with a tiny hole at the top for feeding (yeah, it was a cruddy tank but I was 10.) I put the fish in the day before and the morning after found it on the floor, he had jumped out through a hole the size of a quarter.