Oto gone

[kell]

i came home this afternoon and i was going to move my 3 otos from my 5gal to my 15 but when i looked in the tank i only saw 2 so i took all the objects out thinking that it would be under someting but no there was no oto. i have no idea where it is ive looked every where could it have been eaten be a betta and 2 otos in a day??

 

[The-Wolf]

have you checked inside and under the filter?
have you checked under every plant/decoration?

 

[kell]

yeh i took every thing out and the filter is a bubble powered one so there is no where to be sucked into

 

[smithrc]

we've just lost our 8th one - compleatly randomly

you may have had one die and its been munched...

Anything big enough to eat a dead oto in there?

 

[J_acon]

Is normal, so far i had 3 fish dissappear without a trace. No corpse, no bones. NOTHING.

 

[kell]

Thats weird i dont think a betta and 2 otos could eat it in one day

maby they burow under and gravel and die

 

[HotStuffGal]

Hmm It's poosibal they were inside one of those decorations and you just did'nt notice. Or he could be decomposing in your bettas stomache. I hope you find the little feller soon!

 

[noclueman]

I have had 2 of them completely dissapear as well.

I have no idea what happened. In BOTH cases I saw the sick oto, then left the room for less than 30 minutes. I was coming back to put it in a bag to take it back to the LFS, but it was GONE.

One time I left the room to eat breakfast (less than 30 minutes), came back, no trace.

Second time I left the room for no more than 10 minutes, no kidding, when I came back it was gone. NO trace of it anywhere.

It is only a 10 gallon tank, I took out the plant and rock, dug through the sand, checked the filter, no trace of either one anyway.

Really, I think oto's vanish when they die.

I've asked this before and gotten no real answers,
Sorry,
noclueman

 

[Teelie]

I have a similar problem with my Khulis. Until today, I was only positive 3 were in there but when I did my check on them (they're in quarantine), I saw all 5 of them. I have found one in the filter outflow before but that seems to have been a fluke. Where the other two went is a mystery. Maybe they went on a honeymoon or vacation or something. Wherever they went, they're back. Your Oto might end up returning out of nowhere just as mysteriously as it disappeared.

 

[noclueman]

My two oto's have been 'missing' for over a month now.


Anyway, on the same topic, sadly I had an oto die today. The wierd thing is, he didn't disapear. This was the first oto I have ever seen dead. Every other one disapeared after I noticed they were sick.

 

[daza]

I bought four otos just under a month ago. One died (saw him laying on the bottom on his side)...one dissapeared about a week ago and another has dissapeared in the last couple of days!

I haven't taken anything out to search for them, and I do have a cave where they could potentially be - but why they would hide there now and not before I don't know. So I'm assuming they have been eaten