i'm freaked out. after 2 months, the head of my ahli shows up.....

AquariumNoob13

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Aug 27, 2007
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after 2 months of digging around in my tank looking for the skeleton of my ahli, its head shows up and it looks like my filter is trying to suck it up. what is the meaning of this? how could it have possibly died and why is it just now showing up?
 
Possibly stuck under an ornament/rock or something? How long ago did the fish disappear?
 
the fish disappeared almost like 2 months ago. =[ i will try to upload pics as soon as i can.
 
it isn't gross, it's just rather interesting. (from my POV)
 
The ahli that you recently discovered after its mysterious disappearance 2 months ago... this is the same 29g tank you had your oscar and JD in, your scolofi in, and your yellow labs in, yes? What all do you have in that tank at the moment (full list) and what other (if any) tanks do you have?
 
in that tank i currently have 2 socolofi, pond snails, 3 yellow labs, 3 guppies and then 1 10 gallon tank with 1 JD in it.
 
How are the guppies doing with the cichlids? The ones you have don't seem like especially aggressive species. (save the JD, but he's in his own tank) When you get your bigger tank, I believe you said in the 75-100 gallon range, do you plan to have the JD in with the socolofi and labs? My only real experience with cichlids comes from having worked at petsmart, (which keeps them mostly by species... except the tank we had firemouth and green terror cichlids in... boy that did not end well...) so I don't know a whole lot about big cichlids being housed with smaller species in one communal tank. Anyone else able to shed some light on this topic?
 
i'm not going to keep them in the same tank. i'll have the JD in the 29g until it gets too big then i will donate it or sell it.
 
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