Yesterday I bought 7 cardinal tetras. Today I have 2.
They were put in a well established 55 gallon with some guppies, 4 small fancy plecos (all under 3", most under 2") and 2 queen loaches (i know, too few, but they came with the tank and I haven't found more). The tank has lots of rocks, caves, drift wood, some plants. They aren't in any of these things. I scoured the gravel, no cardinal corpses. I fed cucumber last night, so there is no way the plecos had time/room to eat 5 whole cardinals.
The tank is filtered by a fluval 305. I took it apart and checked inside, no cardinals, no cardinal corpses or body pieces.
There is some space in the tank hood where I suppose they could have jumped (!?!?!?!?) but the water line is fairly low, they would've had to have jumped an inch or more above the water to get over the rim. I don't think they are capable of jumping that far, and they certainly seemed happy in the tank when I went to bed last night. The tank is wedged between furniture, there is no way to check the floor for jumpers without tearing the whole tank down.
I'm so confused. Any thoughts? Has this happened to anyone before? (I'm so shopping for sponge filters and glass tops right now... sigh) The two remaining cardinals look so sad and lonely trying to school all by themselves
They were put in a well established 55 gallon with some guppies, 4 small fancy plecos (all under 3", most under 2") and 2 queen loaches (i know, too few, but they came with the tank and I haven't found more). The tank has lots of rocks, caves, drift wood, some plants. They aren't in any of these things. I scoured the gravel, no cardinal corpses. I fed cucumber last night, so there is no way the plecos had time/room to eat 5 whole cardinals.
The tank is filtered by a fluval 305. I took it apart and checked inside, no cardinals, no cardinal corpses or body pieces.
There is some space in the tank hood where I suppose they could have jumped (!?!?!?!?) but the water line is fairly low, they would've had to have jumped an inch or more above the water to get over the rim. I don't think they are capable of jumping that far, and they certainly seemed happy in the tank when I went to bed last night. The tank is wedged between furniture, there is no way to check the floor for jumpers without tearing the whole tank down.
I'm so confused. Any thoughts? Has this happened to anyone before? (I'm so shopping for sponge filters and glass tops right now... sigh) The two remaining cardinals look so sad and lonely trying to school all by themselves