Hello Friends I have a problem now this will sound weird and many questions will be asked I will answer them all as accurate as I can this is a weird case...PROBLEM: It has been sometime now that I have owned fish and you know how normally when a fish dies he/she floats or goes to bottom of aquarium. Well I haven't noticed any fish dieing but certain fish I know have seem to disappeared with out any trace now not even leaving a fin I considered maybe they gotten eatin, or stuck in the filter so I checked both places the area around my tank and filter. There is no way they coulda of gotten out of tank... I only have 2 Decorations in aquarium one big rock, and 1 bridge thing I have looked under bridge thing the only conclusion I could come up with is maybe they are floating in top of the rock but by now figured they'd sink and drift out..well there you have it any ideas?!?! :?:


:Beer: I am stumped my self...

Most likely it was eaten by the other fish in the tank, which is normal.

How big is the tank? How often do you check on the tank? How big are the missing fish/ other fish in the tank?

It seems that you'd see them eating it or the body decaying or water quality dropping from decaying fish. Then again, dead fish are surprisingly hard to spot.

Good Luck,
Stu

29 Gallon, Everyday, and missing fish 2 of them were 1" inch and one was 2" inches water level seems fine no changes :huh:

I can definately see the frog, turtle and crawdad eating any dead fish. as will any of the others in there.

If the crawfish still has it's front pincers, it will also snatch and eat live fish. They don't seem fast, but they don't have to be, they can just open their pincers up and wait for a fish to swim in. They can completely eat a fish of that size in less than 1 hour. If the turtle is big enough or the frog, they can also eat live fish. The crawfish would be my first suspect though because they do prefer to eat fish.

I just had two fish disappear overnight. :( They were checked just before bed, and now they're gone!

The only thing that I can think of is that they jumped out and the dog got in the room before I did. :sick:

<_< Crawdad and turtle in seperate tank and frog is way to small for it...

ok, any ghost shrimp in that tank? They too can devour a corpse in about 24-48 hours, but can't kill a fish. That could explain their disappearance if they died naturally. If they died in the rock, and it has been more than a couple of weeks, hydrogen will build up in their body and cause them to float rather than sink. That's what causes bodies tied to anchors and thrown overboard to float even with the anchor still attached. Or so I've been told by one of the countries leading forensic anthropologists... I assume the same principles would apply to fish.

What is the exact type of fish that died, and what are the other occupants in the tank?

If you have a test kit, test your levels and see if anything indicates that there could be a decaying body in there.