The Incredible, Edible, Neon?

hondaman

hondaman

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Dec 15, 2005
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Hi guys,

For the last few days I have come home with some neons missing. The day before yesterday one was gone figuring he was dead i did a water change and cleaned the tank. I found no body.

Then today I come home to see that 2 more went missing. Now I managed to find one dead stuck behind my CO2 ladder but the other one is no where to be found.

Could it be that my neons are being eaten by the Red Eyes or Serpaes?
 
Neon

I have 3 red eye / lamp eye tetras theye are not to agressive thy will attack much smaller fish such as sm neons and glow ligh tetras and will eat most of the remains if the dead fish is not removed.
 
Neons just disappear. I swear. LOL. I have kept neons for years and every couple of months one or two just go missing without a trace. I just restock them when I notice the school getting smaller. Honestly though, my tank is so heavily planted that there is 1000 different places a corpse could get hidden and I would never see it. If your tank is fairly barren and you still dont find any corpses, chances are that yes, someone is eating your neons for breakfast while you are away. You could try watching the tank closely for a number of hours on an offday to try and catch the culprit. The only other thing I can suggest would be to setup and video camera and film the tank to see whos chasing who. Hope that helps.
 
what are "jumbo" neon tetras?
 
I have the same problem with Tetras in my tank.. I gave up on the stupid fish because of this.

I blamed my Striped Rapheal (who has never been aggressive to any fish, ever) until I read this thread.. unless of course, my Green Cories or my single Baloon Molly went nuts and turned into ruthless killers when I turned the lights off.

My tanks are always a bit ont he crowded side.. I've lost other fish before, looked everywhere for them and couldn't find them.. it just happens. they get attached to the filter intake at night and they're mostly decomposed when you wake up (enough to be sucked into the filter?) they're stuck under some decoration, they died and were eaten in the night.
 
tetras strap the cash

if i could have back all the money ive spent on tetras and having them die i think i would have enough money to fly to europe and back there just a hard fish to keep alive even in the pest parameters and there life span from what i noticed is no longer than 6-9 months,.. dont get me wrong there a kool fish but there price adds up compared to just getting something more hardy...
 
^I know what you mean. I gave up on them the 2nd time i tryed. From neons, to glowlights ect...i gave up and went to larger agressive fish.

Now, did you guys know that tetras also get agressive and attack in groups? I just found this out, a guy i know that knows alot about cichlids ect told me he can keep some type of tetras in groups that can defend and even kill a full grown cichlid if the school is large enough.

And theres some tetras, depending on how they were raised. If they grew up in a agressive fish tank, they would be agressive.
 
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