Dissapearing Endlers.

[fishfool58]

I have a 10gal planted tank, with 7 Endlers Livebearers in it, over the past week.. 1 disappeared, & then another disappeared a few days after the first one.. My water parameters are fine.. I do weekly water changes, & dose correct ammount of API leaf zone every Wednesday after water change.. Anyone know what is happening?

 

[bud29]

What are the endlers' tankmates?

 

[fishfool58]

What are the endlers' tankmates?

Nothing.. All I had was 7.. & a couple annoying pond snails.. I want RCS too but havent gotten them yet..

 

[bud29]

Is there any chance they are jumping out of the tank? It seems odd that they just disappear like that.

 

[fishfool58]

Is there any chance they are jumping out of the tank? It seems odd that they just disappear like that.

Maybe that would explain why I can't find the bodies in the tank.. I'll have to look when I get home.. But the opening in the top is small..

 

[Wiggles24]

Snails will make quick work of a fish carcass especially small ones like endlers

 

[Oceangirl]

What kind of filter do you have? I just recently had to dig a dead guppy out of an Aquaclear. I have no idea how the whole body got in there, only thing missing was a little tail. Then start looking under decor, then plants, it may be stuck there.

 

[jlbfish]

+1 to Oceangirl we lost a danio one night luckily he had just been lost. I went through the whole tank and found him swimming around in the aqua clear intake area. My water level was high and he just swam in I guess.

Also lost a glolight tetra and had no clue where it went because the openings were very small on our tank. I have no idea when/how it happened but I found him recently all crispy under the furniture my tank is on

Good Luck.

 

[bud29]

Yeah look around the intake tube. All my neons when they died they got sucked onto the tube by the filter.

 

[bettaowner]

I read that fish are the only animals able to hide their bodies when they die.

 

[bud29]

I read that fish are the only animals able to hide their bodies when they die.

How? They are dead!

 

[bettaowner]

I meant that before they die they go some where so no one finds their body.

 

[bud29]

Ah. The way you said it, it sounded like they hid themselves after they died.....

 

[fishfool58]

I meant that before they die they go some where so no one finds their body.

Not in filter or decor, looked there.. But didn't consider out of the tank..

 

[fishfool58]

So looked around my tanks, didn't see either of the 2, so I took it they carried on.. Then this morning I saw 6 at the top to greet me waiting to be fed, don't know where the 6th one came from there.. But I was happy..