Missing Neon Tetra

[zola]

Hi all,

I have a 60 litre tank, fully cycled and healthy, been running about 5 months.

In the tank are 2 danios, 2 platys, 3 Neon tetras (used to be 4.. until last night)

I added 4 assorted mollies two days ago, all seem peaceful.

I couldn't see one of the neon tetras at all last night, I pulled the tank out and searched everywhere, but no sign... could he have been eaten?


What to do?

I was going to do my weekly bucket outtake and gravel clean tonight and hope to find it but it has completely vanished

 

[SchottayB]

Is it dead and stuck in the filter or anything? In a plant or decoration?

My shrimp tend to eat my dead fish . Maybe you will find him when you do your water change

 

[willowstwin]

I had exactly the same problem what is it with neons lately? I had 5 neon tetras, in the space maximum 8 hours (from me going to work to getting home) one of them had disappeared. I had the tank out, all decorations, all plants, poked about in th gravel, I even took the filter apart - no fish, no bones, nothing at all! I now call them neon piranahs! So if my 4 tetras can demolish a body (bones n all) then your 3 tetras plus your 4 other fish certainly could.

 

[KkAaNnEe]

It is a known fact that neons dissapear, happened to me loads

 

[alex1319]

ya neons for me always died overnight on the same day i bought them

 

[zola]

I've had these tetras for maybe 3 months and never an issue until I added the mollies

 

[KkAaNnEe]

Ive experience bully mollys, could well be, but I doubt it would have eaten it completely

 

[Twinklecaz]

One of my Embers has disappeared in by Betta tank. I've just assumed he died and my Betta had a snack!

 

[marieukxx]

probably, one of my cardinal tetras disappeared recently and I looked everywhere for him

 

[puffcandy]

I had a Cory go missing on me a while back, I never did find any remains...