turkish ann said:
hi aquanut,
my tank is fairly big, but its like anything when you startout, a bit green and I liistened to the guy in the shop, he said they were peaceful fish and did not grow too big, some of them have not got a clue, its hard to find a good aquarium shop that know what they are talking about and are honest with you!
It sounds like your tank isn't cycled, and neons don't cope well with an un-cycled tank. Possibly they died from ammonia or nitrite poisoning and then got eaten.
Have you checked your water parameters for ammonia and nitrite? If not, you need to do so urgently.
If you are new to fish keeping please read my article "Avoiding New Tank Syndrome" (link in my sig) before you do another thing, particularly buying new fish.
Whatever the results, do an immediate water change. If you could give us further information it may help:
1. How long have you had your tank.
2. Is it fully cycled? (if you don't know the answer, please refer to my article)
3. How big is your tank? (in litres or US gallons, or even dimensions - we can work it out from that).
4. What type of filter do you have and do you have live plants?
5. What are your water parameters (ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, pH, KH and GH).
6. What does the "green stuff" look like?
. Yep they get eaten pretty fast. Mine weren't eaten alive though, I believe that it was only once they died that the others (probably the dwarf gourami) tucked in. So I reckon it could be your kissing gourami that ate it but it may not have killed it, perhaps it died anyway from the shock of being added to the tank - did you float the bag in the tank for a bit to equalise the temperature and add a cup of tank water to the bag every few minutes before releasing the neons?
(pleco?) might have snacked on the corpses.
Hmm - most probably the gourami - they eat anything that fits into their mouths. Also, if your neons died naturally, they would get eaten by the rest of the tankmates and no remains would be left. What do your frogs eat?
