A mystery...

[juliethegr8t]

Well since I haven't been able to solve my fishie mystery yet, maybe some one else can! Here's the scoop - I had 3 neon tetras in my tank when I first started (yes I realize I should have had some hardier fish, but I didn't know that then). Anyways, they lived for about a day and then keeled over. However, the morning when I found them dead, one was missing. Actually two were, but I found one in the filter intake tube. The other was just laying on the bottom. So where is the third fishie?! This is yet to be discovered. I ended up completely cleaning out that tank a few weeks later, and never found him or any remains. He wasn't in ornaments, wasn't in the filter, was nowhere! I checked absolutely everything. And from what I know, neons don't exactly eat each other. Oh yeah, and I checked everywhere to see if he might have jumped out too. Seems to me like I followed every possibility, but I've always wondered where the poor guy went, anybody got any ideas, or other mystery fish disapearances?

 

[Starla]

Sorry but I have not idea what could have happened to your 3rd tetra (it was a tetra right?). The only thing I could think of was that the other tetras ate him but that would be thought of as impossible since they are so small. Sorry I couldn't be of any help.

 

[val]

Is there a chance that maybe he did jump out but something or someone got there before you did? Like another pet or someone at home who didn't want you to know that he died?

Valerie

 

[juliethegr8t]

Haha val..... good thinking, but nope *Sigh*, not the mystery solver sadly! My door was shut, and it was first thing in the morning when I noticed, nobody had been in my room since the night before - when they were all there. This is just crazy, I swear that fish was Houdini.

 

[Thomas A. Anderson]

how long an interval before you cleaned out the tank from when he went missing. Its possible that he chould have just decayed completely.???

 

[Alex]

Did you have any snails in the tank? if you did maybe they had a munch.

 

[HawkEye]

Or maybe he did jump out and flopped around on the floor for a long time and ended up farther from your tank than you thought...I hate to sound gross but did your room smell a little bit? He could have flopped and decayed in hiding

 

[dolphin]

Hi juliethegr8t

It sounds like the fish was in the tank, and over the few weeks before you cleaned the tank out it decayed into nothing.
In the tropical temperatures of our tanks, decay happens very quickly. All the fungus and bacteria will quiclky consume any remains of a small fish.

 

[Starla]

I would have to agree with 'dolphin' even though I probably wouldnt have thought of that myself. Sorry that I haven't been much help to you and your mystery.

 

[Lipreader]

Sounds like a job for Agent Scully and Mulder. Have you called them yet?

 

[Starry^]

I was about to say .. maybe mini aliens that collect fish specimens came down from their home planet and took one back with them, and the others died from being exposed to gamma rays



Starry^

 

[wetwetwet]

I think we've entered the 'Twilight Zone'
lol

 

[juliethegr8t]

Well everyone has some good ideas, but I think Starry's is the most probable haha... I just really like that idea! I think the little aliens wish they could breathe underwater so they're studying fish to find out how they do it! Yup.. that must be it.

 

[Great Lakes]

Julie, you have entered the Neon Zone. LOL

I once had 20, 2 days later, I had 19, then it was 17, then 16, and so on. Never found a dead one either!!

So who knows??