uh oh

[bsmall05]

is it possible for a fish to just dissappear? i cant find my yoyo loach to save my life. after not seeing him all day i decided to go in, pick up the rocks and driftwood, and even sift around in the sand. i couldnt find him any where! any ideas?

 

[GIS Guy]

I've had fish disappear on me for no reason.

Sometimes they get stuck inside decorations.

 

[TheFighterFish]

I've had fry dissapear on me in fry tanks only. I've heard stories about fish getting stuck inside the filter. But I also heard stories about fish miraculously re-appearing out of no where.

 

[JWright]

What's your substrate? Yoyos love to bury themselves.

A buddy of mine had a yoyo in a tank that he hadn't seen for weeks. He assumed it was gone and completely broke the tank down and set it back up for a different set of occupants. As in... completely drained, nothing but gravel left in the tank. Sure enough, a week later the loach pops up and is swimming around, merrily as can be.

~JW

 

[big54bob]

i had fish disapear
i beleive my old goldfish ate them
he ate a
betta
black moor
scizzortail
and other goldfish

 

[JWright]

Goldfish are not known for their fish eating tendencies...

As they have no teeth to speak of, and relatively small mouths, it would be quite impossible for a goldfish to eat a betta.

 

[big54bob]

man i kept on baming him for the disapearing off my fish!to bed he died.

 

[JWright]

Sorry to go off-topic here for a second..

Hey big54bob, if you look at the top of the page near the right side, you'll see the status of you private messages. I notice you have your PM alert pop-up turned off, so you may not have seen that I sent you a PM. If you could, click on the words "Private Messages" to go to your inbox.

 

[Lotus]

bsmall, have you checked inside your filter? Yoyos are both excellent at hiding, and excellent at getting themselves into places they shoudn't.

 

[bsmall05]

good news! i came back from a party tonight and TADA!! there he was! i have no idea where the little bugger was hiding, but hes back now and schooling with my other loaches like nothing happened. im so glad... i dont have any goldfish in the tank but i was startin to wonder if my guppies were eeeevil! hehe

 

[JoluvsGuppies]

lol nice post, happy ending *celebrate

 

[bsmall05]

apparently he liked hiding so much that he keeps doing it, im not so worried now because he knows when dinner is so hes usually out by then. and to answer a question that i failed to answer before... the substrate is sand, so its very likely that im practically inviting him to bury.

 

[JoluvsGuppies]

hahaha... yoyo loaches do have a tendency for hiding! Do you have any pieces he can hide in?caves?

 

[Breeze7050]

Glad you found him! Not sure of the size/shape of your driftwood but all 4 of my yoyos can swim completely through the driftwood - thus be totally hidden from sight. I used to flip out and think they were stuck or gone and then one by one they'd come flying out. Although I have to admit Im getting a little worried as they are quite a lot bigger now then when I first got them!

 

[bsmall05]

yeah duncan is the same way (get it? duncan... yoyo hehe) hes kind of a fatty. i thought he was a gravid she for a while, but as it turns out, hes just a hog at meal time and eats everything he can get his greedy little barbs on!