Missing Fish

[Sarah J]

i have sand substrate and vacuum the top. i will say i went two weeks rather than one this last time but it all just seemed to be a mess so i dont now either honestly. I've always wondered about the filter. i thought i had a really good filter considering my bio load is so low. i have 6 cory cats and a 1.5 inch pleco and i know they don't make too much of a mess. i will say now after i just looked again, i had barely any debris at all. i think the problem was me not moving the decor during normal water changes and sand skimming. There are these holes in the caves where things get trapped until i topple them over and thats what i did for the first time in a few weeks. i hadn't moved the decor. but i have it all gone now.

yea i just have 3 EBA
1 EBJD
3 Sajicas
and the cory cats and pleco (which won't grow over 5 inches)

i am getting a green terror and another baby pleco that also won't grow over 5 inches
and some more cory cats to make another school

 

[krichardson]

Yes,certain caves,hollow logs and such can become magnets for detritus and waste matter to build up inside of.That was one of the reasons I stopped using them in my tanks....much to the displeasure of my fish that loved to hide in them.

 

[duanes]

Fry, Plecos (and shrimp in the case below) are consummate recyclers, and can reduce a corpse to almost northing almost overnight.
Here a good sized cichlid was killed by its mate.

So I dropped it in a shrimp refugium.

within short time

 

[Sarah J]

I will have to see more options then

Fry, Plecos (and shrimp in the case below) are consummate recyclers, and can reduce a corpse to almost northing almost overnight.
Here a good sized cichlid was killed by its mate.

So I dropped it in a shrimp refugium.

within short time

wow! ive scoured so I'm positive he's gone and I haven't found a decaying body. I'm about to get those caves out of there though for sure. I did have 4 shrimp in there and my baby red bushy nose pleco. my inch sajicas could have helped as well. I've seen them pick on live fish. its just crazy to think. I found nothing. I think ill have to make a shrimp tank btw because of this post lol