Missing Platy?

[BigDaddy420]

i woke up today and looked in my tank, i have a platy missing, full grown platy. i cant seem to find any trace of her in the tank, no corpse or anything like that, i looked in the caves, she doesnt seem to be in there either. nothing in my tank big enough to eat her and i swear i seen her yesterday. any ideas?

 

[TLM4x4]

um did you look allllllllllll around the outside back of the tank? how about in your filter box? sheesh I hope ya find her....

 

[dslr.cow]

Try looking in the perimeter of the tank on the substrate layer.

 

[FroggyFox]

In the filter, inside of decorations, outside the tank on the floor, in between decorations and the wall of the tank.

Did you find her?

 

[nobody]

What kind of decorations do you have? I had a molly and an upside down that swam inside one of my decorations once and they both died. So I took the decorations out. Good luck.

 

[BigDaddy420]

i looked all over, i even took the castle out and didnt find her, but low and behold, she's back. i dunno if she got in the filter somehow or what, she looks like she had her babies tho, probably had a meal to herself.

 

[BigDaddy420]

well, i just looked in my plastic floating fry hideout plant thingie and i found some very tiny fry in there. so wherever she had them, looks like they did make it out alive. theyre all black tho, but maybe she bred with the molly? who knows. she's back now though and with some little friends.

 

[TLM4x4]

well.....at least she was found and found ALIVE with friends *twirlysmi

 

[BigDaddy420]

yeah. its kinda cool, my first fry in my livebearer tank. hopefully everything starts breeding like crazy, give my oscars a good supply of food

 

[dslr.cow]

plastic floating fry hideout plant thingie

What's that? I might need something like that.

 

[BigDaddy420]

Baby Hide out Grass

i had 3 or 4 in there and i didnt get them out, i thought they would be safe up in there, but when i looked later i only had 1 left, he's in the breeder's net now. but the grass saved me from having to watch the tank constantly.

 

[fishguy07]

UGH, i wish i had some oscars, i got some livebearers i wouldnt mind gettin rid of.... lol...

 

[BigDaddy420]

throw em in a bag and drop em in the mail. if u really wanna get rid of em tho, most lfs's will take em off ur hands

 

[Shaunna]

I have a missing platy, too. My tank hardly has any decorations. I have looked everywhere! All around the outside. I took them to Wal-mart ot try and return them and get my tank started out properly. Well they said htey would just flush them so I said forget it I will just keep them. So I brought them back home. (I had them in a bucket all this time.) Unplugged my heater and got ready to do a water change. Was pretty positive she was the first one I put back in my tank. Well I did the water change, I have checked my bathtub to make sure she didn't go down the drain but I am pretty sure she didn't and besides I would have seen her swimming around in the bucket!! But I cannot find this fish ANYWHERE!!!

 

[Shaunna]

I found her. I don't know where she was. I was getting really worried and feeling pretty guilty. I was starting to think maybe I did empty her down the drain, but here she is under the little log in the middle of my tank. I don't know where she was at because I even stuck my hand in there and wiggled the log around and still didn't find her. Oh well, she is fine now. It is amazing how we try to take pieces of nature and mold them into what we think they should be yet here in a little box made entirely of glass, this little fish can still elude me if she wants to!! Amazing. Speaking of amazing, just off the subject real quick, has anybody seen "Crash"? If not you have to watch it. I can honestly say it is the best movie I have ever seen. Again, it is hard to believe the small, simple roles we play in life and how they affect the world over!