Why is it my Angelfish fry keep disappearing?
Who else is in the tank? The parents get a little more lax as the fry ages. So other fish in the tank could get them. Or you have something that scares the parent fish every once and a while and it is better to save the mature fish who can breed again rather than attracting an enemy who is likely to get them all. If there is no one else in the tank, once the fry become free swimming, they don't need the parents. So remove them. The fry will get along without them in a nice safe aquarium. For our tag-a-long. Get yourself to the pet store and buy some liquid fry food. Tell them you want the stuff of egg layer fry - not live bearer. Not the best stuff, but it will buy you a day or two while your shrimp hatch. Next time have some daphina around, you can keep a culture going on sun light and water if you wish and see it jump up in population in a few days by adding just a little ground fish food. Daphina is not as good as BBS, but will not foul the water and can be kept on just algae that forms in their container in sunlight until you need to boast their population.
My fish keep disappearing!?
I have a 150L Tank with a variety of fish: Tiger barbs Gourami's Rosy barbs Bala shark Rainbow sharks Pleco Danio's Golden apple snail (about 2cm-2.5cm in diameter) My one bala shark disappeared first and this morning when i woke up my pearl gourami was gone. The bala shark was about 10cm and my pearl was about 4cm. there is no trace of them, i dont have cats that could have eaten them. the are to big to jump out of the tank, the openings are not big enough... The pearl gourami was looking a bit ill yesterday i must say..... i have a suspicion that the were eaten... but there is nothing left?? plus who would eat a 10cm bala shark?? Any advice would be helpfull.... these fish species have been living together for a while in the tank, not fighting or killing each other, i feed them enough and this just started to happen. 2 fish in the past 3 days.... please help!!
A disappearing betta fish?
I don't know how they do it, but bettas are experts at invisibility or at the very least - masters of illusion. I have 2 gallon rectangular environments and I swear there have been times I couldn't find my bettas and after five minutes they just sort of swim out of a curvature in the glass or turn broadside from beside a leaf like a cartoon! I can't count the times I've hunted around on the floor for them, platies and danios,CAE, lined up at the glass, watching me with interest. Witch, I say. Witch! :D
Why do all my fish keep disappearing please help me?
okay so I have a 46 gallon fish tank. right now it has only 5 tiger barbs, a blue spotted gourami, a bala shark, a red tailed catfish, and 4 glowing tetras. a few weeks ago all the fish started to disappear and we called the petstore and they said the fish are getting sucked into the filter. there was 11 riger barbs but now 6 are gone and 2 of the glowing tetras are gone. all the fish are very small. the bala shark is the biggest one and the gourami just swims at the top and the catfish just hides all day. i need to know why is the filter causing all my fish to die? my grandma has been putting hand sanitizer in the filter everyday cuz one of the petstores said that it sucks less in or something. she puts agua safe in the hand sanitizer so it is alright. the filter is off now so the fish are all safe. tomorrow my grandma is going to the pet store to buy some kind of special filter they had at the petstore. ok so should i maybe but one of those canister filters and get a bigger tank so the fish will have more to stay away from the filter or should i just let my grandma take care of it all?
My GloFish disappeared?
Your fish died and was eaten by the other fish. This is almost always the case when fish go "missing" in aquariums. About the only thing you can keep in a 3 gallon is a betta. Glofish need to be in schools of 6+ and can't be housed in something under 10 gallons, not even remotely, and 15+ is much better. The fact that you added this many fish to a 3 gallon and don't know what the black fish you bought is called tells me that you are new to the aquarium world. You need a properly stocked aquarium without this many fish to start with, and if you want anything beside bettas and guppies you can't get anything smaller than a 10 gallon. To start with the tank will be very unstable while it goes through cycling, which is the process of building up enough beneficial bacteria to break down the waste your fish produces. That takes 4-6 weeks. You should cycle without fish, but you can also do a cycle with fish. Please read this: http://www.firsttankguide.net/cycle.php If you don't make some immediate changes to your aquarium, your next question is going to be about the massive die-off in your tank.
My sucker-fish in my fish tank disappeared, where did it go?
Ive had a suckerfish about 3-4 inches long in my fish tank and one day it just vanished. Does anyone know what could have happened to it? The rest of the fish in there are small, nothing that could have eaten it or killed it. Did it die and burrow itself? Do they burrow under the pebbles? Did it get eaten by the little fish? Jump out? I have no idea... Does anyone have any good guesses? Thanks!
Why do my betta's eggs keep popping/disappearing?
? Eggs are small, tucked in among air & spit bubbles (yes, betta's blow the bubbles from their 'spit'). You'll see the eggs occasionally fall from the bubble nest, and the male will pick them up and 'paste' them back among the bubbles. If you don't see him occasionally picking up eggs, then a good chance they didn't spawn.. It's fun watching betta's spawn. The male nudges her to under his bubble nest, he and she wrap around each other as if he was squeezing the eggs from her. He breaks for a momment, picks up the few eggs, places them in the nest as the female hovers waiting for him to get back and continue. When they finish spawing, he chases her away and will flair and attack her if she comes near the bubble nest that he is now defending and caring for. You should remove the female at this point. Depending on temperature, the eggs hatch in 2 - 3 days, and the 'wrigglers' begin falling out of the bubble nest. they are very small, a tad bigger than the comma in this sentence. He picks them up and replaces them in the nest. They do that for another 2 or so days. Then the fry absorb the rest of their egg sack, becoming free swimming and begin looking for food. The male becomes fustrated trying to herd them together and will very soon begin eating them.. So as soon as they become free swimming, immediately remove the male. Begin feeding newly hatched baby brine shrimp. About the only food that the baby bettas can eat, they'll also be eating all the bacteria in the tank - you won't see them unless you have superb eyesight, but the fry can and will eat those, but there aren't enough so you need to be hatching baby brine. I have tried culturing bacteria using rotting lettuce in a jug of water, it can work - but the supply is unpredictable. Good luck
I have a betta fish and his caudal fin is disappearing but his other fins are just fine. What should I do to treat it?
if the fish is in a community tank and a fish is nipping at his delicious looking tail you must keep him isolated from that environment. If he’s by himself you are going to have to step up and keep his container cleaner. Add a filter if it’s possible and do some partial water changes. If you end up buying medication for treating the fish for fin rot because it has been exposed to an infection, add a little aquarium salt, say half a teaspoon per gallon. This will help to promote healing.
Hi,I want to know why my guppy fry is disappearing.?
well it is unlikely they completely disappeared. breeding nets aren't recommended because the fry can slip out, possibly if your guppies are fry eaters (most are, i haven't really had that problem) but if they are it's possible they could've gone up to the net and tried to eat them through the net. which would of course kill them, and if they got the fry chewed up they could suck the whole thing out. i doubt the fry jumped out unless your water level is very high. but it is a possibility. search the rest of your tank around the plants and any other decorations you have. see if you can see them. they are GREAT at hiding. so you might not see them. if they don't turn up, i'm sorry to say i'd assume they were dead by your adult guppies. if you want more fry, i'd suggest getting a seperate maternity tank. what i have is a 10 gallon, which is like 10$ at petsmart, u don't really need a filter until they're a little bigger, or you could get a sponge filter. also i've use a 1 gallon tank (would be nice to have a bigger tank so you could have a heater though), put my preg female in there with plenty of plants for hiding. waited till she had the fry, then moved her back to the main tank and moved the fry to the baby tank. then you can start over. so it's a 3 tank process. take female from main tank, put her in a smaller maternity tank, remove fry and put into fry tank, and put the female back in the main tank. there is so much info in breeding guppies, this is just a simple way i've done it. but there are tons of ways. but please don't use breeding nets. check out guppies.com they have probably any information you could ever want. you could also post this question in the guest forum and probably get better more accurate answers. hope i was at least some help. i hope your fry show up. and good luck in the future.
How do (guppy) fish disappear? My friend’s was in the right size tank, perfectly healthy, and we looked everywhere, even outside the tank. We’ve only had the fish for an hour.
Don't be too worried about that, fish sometimes good at camouflage.I used to lost an Oscar in a 100 gal community tank.That day, I decided to do a complete water change, so I take the fish out and clean the tank. After the procedure completed, I put the Oscar and the other fish back to the tank and he went missing after 5 minutes. I'm to too worried as nothing on the tank could make him dinner.So I just search for him everywhere but I still couldn't find him. An Oscar is a big fish. I don't just disappear in 100gal tank. He can't be sucked to the filter too as he is simply too big for it.Long story short he went under the radar for about two months and when he reappears, he is looking good and healthy.So don't worry about your guppy as long as there is no predatory fish on your tank.