missing Kuhli loach

[fadetoblack06]

So I had a loach I picked up about two months ago and he's been missing since pretty much put him in there. I had seen him twice since I put him in there. Ive moved everything, looked around the tank, and he is nowhere to be found at all. I have two green spotted puffers and a royal pleco in there at the time that i had him in there and I know the puffers didnt eat him, they swim around like theyre both in their own world in there. The pleco didnt eat him so how can he just disappear?

 

[wildcatcrzy]

I've read they can escape. Check the filter and around your stand. Hopefully he just swam into the filter box.

 

[fadetoblack06]

He's nowhere. I have a canister filter so he couldn't get into that, he's not on the floor, he's not anywhere I can find him.

 

[GTFCTIM]

I'd check the filter. I found one of mine in there.

 

[LyndaB]

When I only had a few, this happened to me a lot. They were always beneath something, like the substrate or a piece of decor.

Check your readings. If he's died somewhere in the tank, you'll know.

What is your exact stock and what size tank?

 

[furrymurray]

I have a canister filter and had two kuhli loaches get inside thru the intake. I found them almost starved inside the sponge and the frame for the sponge. I didnt think they could fit thru the intake cover but they did. So i zip tied some fabric screening over the intake.