Disappearing Neons

[Peregrine]

I started with 6 neons and now I have 4. I lost one about 3 weeks ago and another just 2 days ago. No bodies recovered. They are just g-o-n-e! 8O

I don't have any fish large enough to eat one. I have:
6-then-5-now-4 Neon Tetras
4 Zebra Danios, small
3 Large Belly Mollies
3 Oto's
4 Wagtail Platies
4 Orange Varitas (same size and shape as platies)
6 Rosarius Tetras
2 white tiny cory cats
1 Tiger Loach
Small snails
55G

I did have an ich issue that I am 90% sure has been beaten. I used medication for 3 days, PWC, then raised the temp and added Aq-salt. No signs of ich, everyone looks healthy and I am bringing the temp back down.

I never had Neons before, and I kind of quite like them. I was considering adding a few more, but not sure I will have a school left to add some too!

Any ideas where they could be going?!? Seen something similar?

Thanks for any ideas!

 

[ryan]

this happened to me to . i have a variety of teras 12 of the species. but anyways my neon dissaperred and i could not find them anywhere. then i was doing a tank clean so i moved a cave i made from big rocks and there he was in between the rocks. so i suggest looking throughout the ordaments since they are relitivly small.

 

[TomK2]

They are small, and can be picked clean by other tank inhabitants rather quickly. Also, they can slime over and decay fairly rapidly too. I have a 10 gal tank, went away for a vacation, one less neon when I came back. And Neons are the only fish in there. There is a suspicious fuzzy ball of algae in a plant, Hmmm, could be the neon slimed over.

 

[Jarred Darque]

Neons in commerical trde are in-bred alot. They are very proneto diseases, both infection and herditary. So one can look fine, get sick and die withing a few days. And either fall into small niche you cant see, or be devoured by snails withing days. I lost a guppy in one ofmy tanks, withing hours it wasnothing but a writhing mass of pond and malaysian trumpet snails

 

[Peregrine]

Thanks everyone! I have been dilligently keeping my eye on the last four. It looks like some of the fins on 2 of them are frayed or nipped? Looks like I am in danger of losing more. Maybe my tiger loach is picking on them? No one else has any sign of damage.