Missing peacock gudgeons

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For me, my male is missing! And thank you!

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Maybe the gudgeons could have buried themselves? Or if they were small enough could they have been sucked into the filter and somehow survived the impeller? I once had 3 endler fry get sucked into the filter and found them later as full grown adults, presumably eating algae, uneaten food, and microorganisms. I just lost track of my bolivian ram yesterday, and presumably he jumped from the tank and got eaten by my cat.


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They're about 1.5 inches long.. my substrate is eco complete so it would be impressive if they were burying themselves

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UPDATE: Checked once I got home from classes today and still absolutely no sign of the male. The female turned up, but the male hasn't even left bones.
 
raccioppi83 said:
UPDATE: Checked once I got home from classes today and still absolutely no sign of the male. The female turned up, but the male hasn't even left bones.
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I didn't read all the way through and jumped to the last post but have you checked under every rock, plant, decoration you have?
In my old 30g I bred these in I found my male under a fake plant base with fry all around him. They can get into places you didnt think they could..


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Bichir Bro said:
I didn't read all the way through and jumped to the last post but have you checked under every rock, plant, decoration you have?
In my old 30g I bred these in I found my male under a fake plant base with fry all around him. They can get into places you didnt think they could..


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The mysteries of fish... NO matter how hard we try, we will never understand them completely...


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Nope! I'll be sure to check for him tomorrow during the water change

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Update!! Both Gudgeons reappeared today!!

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Whoa... Crazy! Wonder where he went for a week: maybe took a vacation? Regardless, so glad they both reappeared!
 
Yeah! I can't imagine where he was!

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ExoticAquarist said:
Maybe the gudgeons could have buried themselves? Or if they were small enough could they have been sucked into the filter and somehow survived the impeller? I once had 3 endler fry get sucked into the filter and found them later as full grown adults, presumably eating algae, uneaten food, and microorganisms. I just lost track of my bolivian ram yesterday, and presumably he jumped from the tank and got eaten by my cat.


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Thats crazy! They lived through an impeller, and grew to adults without even being seen!! Wow!


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LayzorBeams said:
Thats crazy! They lived through an impeller, and grew to adults without even being seen!! Wow!


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Maybe even more got sucked in and only those 3 got sucked in. I change my filter media every 3 months, which would certainly give them time to grow up. There were 21 fish in the bag when I brought them home. 16 babies, 2 females, 1 guppy female, 2 males. All of the smaller babies went missing after about 5 mins and my diamond tetras had a golden/pink tinge on their belly that they only get when spawning or eating live food but I guess the rest got sucked in.
 
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