TankGirl
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My female Copadichromis borleyi ("red tail") went missing this weekend, and she had just started to spit her fry after holding for 3 weeks, but she was not done. The tank has heavy rockwork but I could not find her still today, so I start moving rocks to find her, since she is a 4.5" fish and if she was not alive it would do a number on the water chemistry. The male peacock in there with her is extremely aggressive while she is holding, for some reason, and it abates after she spits so I was hoping for return to peace in the next few days.
She was not in the tank, and I could not find her behind the tank either. The only opening at all is a 1.5" gap between the glass top and the rim of the tank on the back. I finally found her in the plastic bin I keep my canister filter in, and she had obviously been chased and went out the back of the tank, then down and into the bin through the open back of the tank stand. I don't know how she managed to wind up there, but she was way past saving. The really sad thing is that there were also the desiccated bodies of her fry that she spit out in the bin after she landed.
The only good thing is that since I had the rocks all taken out I was able to snag some Labidochromis caeruleus fry and one borleyi fry that she had spit a day or two ago, and moved them to a growout tank. There were two more of those but without the rocks there was no cover for them and, well, you know what happened. I was not fast enough netting them. Really crappy morning!! :x
Here is a picture of the borleyi:
She was not in the tank, and I could not find her behind the tank either. The only opening at all is a 1.5" gap between the glass top and the rim of the tank on the back. I finally found her in the plastic bin I keep my canister filter in, and she had obviously been chased and went out the back of the tank, then down and into the bin through the open back of the tank stand. I don't know how she managed to wind up there, but she was way past saving. The really sad thing is that there were also the desiccated bodies of her fry that she spit out in the bin after she landed.
The only good thing is that since I had the rocks all taken out I was able to snag some Labidochromis caeruleus fry and one borleyi fry that she had spit a day or two ago, and moved them to a growout tank. There were two more of those but without the rocks there was no cover for them and, well, you know what happened. I was not fast enough netting them. Really crappy morning!! :x
Here is a picture of the borleyi: