decomposing fish

[Corp000085]

i went on vacation for a week. i had 3 black mollies, but when i came home, i had one living and one floating and half decomposed. The third is unaccounted for. I've checked everywhere in the tank. My question is, how long would it take for a black molly to completely decompose to its skeleton, and/or decompose enough to be sucked into my magnum 350 and broken apart? i'm really curious as to where its remains might be, as its completely unaccounted for (i have platties, zebra daneo, and one pleco... hardly the fish that would eat a black molly whole)

 

[gixer]

they would all eat him pretty quickly....what plec is it? some could pollish of a dead molly in seconds

 

[Sorrell]

The other day one of my severums died, he was laying on the bottom, I went to get a net and a trash bag 5 minutes tops, when I got back my pleco was sitting where the dead fish was and he was completely gone. Most fish will pick at dead ones, but those plecos really go to town!

 

[Opcn]

yeah I'm sure he was eaten. All of your fish are big oportunity feeders and would have no qualms against eating a dead mollie.

Opcn

 

[Grams]

how sad i had 2 tetras disapear over night but i a little baby pleco about 2.5 inches

 

[Corp000085]

I did notice that my pleco was quite a bit larger than when i left him last weekend. That's probably where the mollie went. The other one was floating though, so who knows. I set up my webcam on my tank, but because of router problems, i couldn't access my computer remotely to look at the tank. Oh well... At least my other fish got some nutrition from the dead one.