Problem!!

[JoeDaniels]

Ok so I bought some cardinals about a week ago and a couple of days ago one just went missing (Just vanished) but I thought it would be ok, I woke up this morning looked in the tank and now there is one dead and one missing :/ so where did they go ? Does anybody have any ideas ? My tank consists of (now) 1 betta, 1 rainbow shark(large), 1 Chinese algae eater(large), 2 cardinal tetra(now), 1 glow light tetra and 2 cherry barbs.
Thankyou

 

[Esoteric Backbone]

The betta, is it a male.

 

[TotallyCoral]

Sorry about your fish. Have you check the filter? Same thing happened to me with one of my cardinals... That's where I found it...

 

[JoeDaniels]

Yeah the betta is male, but he is very relaxed and never interferes with any of the tetra and yeah checked the filter :/ nothing :/

 

[Esoteric Backbone]

How large is your shark?

 

[TotallyCoral]

Could be that he is just hiding. Another one of my cardinals hid for about a day and turned up the next morning looking happy and healthy! Hope you find your fish soon!

 

[JoeDaniels]

My shark is quite large, I'd say about 4 inches maybe 5. And it can't be I have checked the whole tank over and over :/

 

[tiguardo]

It's amazing how they can hide out. I lost a neon tetra for 2 days, then suddenly he turned up live & well! If he's nowhere to be seen, sadly the filter is the usual resting place. Hope he's just playing hard to get

 

[JoeDaniels]

Ok so he isn't in the filter :/ im thinking they may have been eaten bye either my rainbow shark or surprisingly my Chinese algae eater as he is very very aggressive :/

 

[arangarajan93]

Then remove the chinese algae eater.

 

[JoeDaniels]

Yeah I am going to get rid of him I think. But what if it's not him :/

 

[JoeDaniels]

Ok so the other one that was lost today I found dead :/ so that's two fish that have died overnight :/ very confused. I am now worried that they were a bad batch from a LFS and what worries me further is that when I put those fish in due to my lack of concentration at the time I poured the LFS water from the bag In aswell :/

 

[Lozaroo]

More then likely he died and your Chinese algae eater ate him!
also the other fish may of joined in. I have heaps of bottom feeders and if a fish dies they will not leave remains...