The Puffer Forum

One by one, all my fish nave some up missing in my 10g hex. I noticed the 3 Vietnamese loaches weren't in there anymore. Then I saw algae growing on the glass & noticed the otos were gone ( there were 3), except for one & that one's gone now too. Then I couldn't find one of the DPs. Now the other DP is gone & the tank is empty!

No bones or anything? Could they have gotten into the filter intake somehow?

No on both. If I had sucked them up in the Python, they would have gotten stuck in the drain strainer in the basement.

This is a true mystery then. If I had checked the filter and substrate, but could find no signs of decaying fish or bones, I would start looking at my pets and asking them who did it. We had a cat that luckily never caught anything, but could open the lids on my smaller tanks. I'm very interested to see if you find out who/what is responsible for this massacre.

I already tried blaming Kalvin.

No luck there? Maybe aliens changed the ph of your water to 1 and they dissolved, or were just taken, experimented on, and placed on the moon in a fishbowl. Hmm... I'll need to consult my magic sticks on this one.

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What? Neither theory? Cold case then.

This sounds fishy

I had a goby go missing...tore the tank apart...he was nowhere to be found. Happened right around the time "the rapture" was suppose to happen...we like to think Mr. Goberson was a "chosen one".

we need to get Monk on the case

Lol, I love Monk!

I miss those cute tiny pufferfaces!

Pufferpunk, I apologize. While I realized the fish were all missing, it was insensitive of me not to attend to the fact that they had most likely passed away. I'm sorry for your loss.

This is scary, where on earth did they go?

I really would guess another pet or person if it had happened to me. I can't fathom how else they would be able to disappear from an enclosed tank. Especially in such a small tank, where they would be fairly easy to keep track of.

If they died, I would have found bodies. Any time I observed them, they were all healthy.