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    well there is no index labeled "bizarre" so i guess this is the next best thing....okay....first all my guppies disappeared......now tell me where the heck is my elephant nose?.....there is nothing in that tank big enough to deovour a 3 to 4 inch fish in a day....and having scoped out the whole area around and underneath the tank for jumper remains....it now becomes a bizarre occurance as to where are "my" fish going?......

    heartbroken again
    fishlady.......
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    You have cats in the house ?  I mean I used to know someone who had to put up a camera to find out what happened to his fish

    What fish do Jesper have
    180 WC T. Moorii Chilambo +1 Petro trewavasae.
    110     Cyps, WC Xeno Spilopterus Kipili WC/F1/F2 T. sp red Kiku
    58 S. Decorus
    "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." -Margaret Thatcher

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    • #3
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      no cats in the house....

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      • #4
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        have you picked up all your rocks?  looked in the filter?  a ghost cat?
        58G Malawis
        10G planted

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        • #5
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          i tore that tank  up looking for him and he's not there....i am convinced at this point that the entity that lives in our house has hijacked my fishies....it is an entity without remorse or sorrow for the things it does....for there is no other explanation for it's disappearance....cichlidfan and i both went over the tank with a fine tooth comb so to speak and no sign of him anywhere....so i guess it's the aliens ......i don't know...but i do know that i hope and pray that whatever got it...that they get very sick and suffer as it has made my heart suffer......

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          • #6
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            If there are decorations in the tank it could have wedged itself into a nook where you can't find it.

            Either that or made it's way behind the tank somewhere hidden.
            700g Mini-Monster tank

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            • #7
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              Do these things burrow into substrate?  Excuse my ignorance here but I don't know much about them.  The reason that I ask is that I have a Banana Loach that was a stoaway in a tank that I got from Arm.  Arm left about an inch of water to hold the good bacteria in the tank so I wouldn't have to cycle it as long.  He came out of hiding on the ride to my place.  Well long story short I put him in my 40 gallon and he comes up missing for many days at a time.  I tore the tank apart getting fish out of it and he was nowhere to be seen.  Well after running my fingers through the gravel.....out he pops.  As for the other fish that have come up missing....WEIRD.

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              • #8
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                :think: Strange...

                You've checked the whole tank, have you checked the filter? Just a suggestion, sometimes they can find a way to get in there...?

                Do you have any ammonia tests? That might be a way to determine if (unforunately) he's died and is somewhere in the tank.

                I can't think of anything else, short of tearing the whole tank apart, which I wouldn't recommend! Do you remember the last time you saw him? Has it been a matter of a day or two, or a week or two?

                Good thinking about the burrowing. I don't think elephant noses bury themselves, but I could very well be mistaken. I have heard they're very shy, though.
                "Millennium hand and shrimp!"

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                • #9
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                  Yeah I had an issue with some fry coming up missing and I thought the larger ones were eating the smaller ones.  Well sure enought when I changed the filter pad on my Whisper 20.....there they were swimming around happy as could be.  And I did have a Sunshine get sucked up the intake tube on time when the bottom strainer fell off somehow.  I didn't find him until he was fossilized.  I thought the filter just had something wrong with the motor and the rpm's weren't high enough for the flow rate.  Come to find out...I had a 2.5" stopple in the line....LOL

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                  • #10
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                    i did look in the filters....no fish....elephant nose don't burrow in the substrate....nope he's not in the tank....he was there the day before yesterday....but yesterday he was gone....

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                    • #11
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                      I think you need to quit playing "Finding Nemo" on the TV at night -- it is giving your fish ideas!

                      So sorry for your losses. I know you loved that Elephant Nose.

                      Are there any gaps in the cover on the tank? Big enough for a fish to get through? Can a fish have flopped out the tank, then flopped underneath the cabinet?

                      You said there is nothing big enough to devour an elephant fish in a day.... what if it was a team project? Who in this tank hunts at night? If there was a dead fish, how long would it take for the rest of the team to eat him totally? Have there been any marks on any other fish in this tank? Is the elephant fish the most docile in the tank? Watch the next most docile for frightened behavior or marks from a fight, damaged fins, scratches, missing scales. If there is a night hunter, it will not be long before he strikes again.

                      Framkly, that is why I got away from chichlids -- I couldn't stand it when someone got killed. The discus don't kill each other, they simply die for one reason or another.

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                      • #12
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                        one thing to consider, he could have jumped out of the tank and flopped pretty far way.  I've heard of finding fish in another room.
                        58G Malawis
                        10G planted

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                        • #13
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                          thanks alot anona....i am truely heartbroken over his disappearance....he was the biggest fish in the tank...at about 4 inches...the rest are guppies, 3 algae eaters, 1 rafael, and 1 common pleco.....he was there one day and gone the next....now mind you all these other fish in the tank are no more than 2 inches big if that....and tons of baby guppies courtesy of mzunga.....the lid on that tank is a very tight fitting lid....the hob filters were searched as well as the space between the tank and the backing paper on there too....the cabinet only has one opening in the back that's big enough for a plug from the filters to come thru....so no openings that could be left to question....it's just a matter of it's gone...and i may never know what happened to him.....i just had to vent my sorrow i guess....for i did love him so very much....i was so proud that he was thriving in there after the loss of the first attempt to have one....tenah watha hai.....an old indian saying that means "it's a good day to die"....so be it....but thanks for all the advice and support from all of you....hopefully soon i'll have another and go on again....

                          fishlady.....

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