Disappearing Act by a Molly...

[BootHimself]

I'm doing a major cleaning on my 20 today, and as I was vacuuming the gravel, I noticed I was one black molly short. I checked inside all of the landforms that I removed, and checked the plant leaves as well... No molly. Checked the filter tube, behind the heater tube, and under the piles of disturbed gravel. No molly... Looked inside the filter, around the stand, under the bed, tables, and towels that I had laid down on the floor. No molly...

All three were present in the tank last night at feeding time, and I didn't bother to do a headcount this morning when I fed them. There were no fishy remains floating around the tank, and I have never seen my small Kissing Guarmi bother any of the other fish since they were added several months ago.

Could this be a David Blane fish? Maybe a saint fish who sacrificed himself to save the other fish from painful damnation. (Provided they follow his divine fishy will). Or maybe just a flying-fish suicide that flew past my search radius, possibly soaring to the opposite end of the room?

Either way....


R.I.P.
Mysterious Molly
May-August.

[bushwhacker]

boots i had a 5 inch green sev end up 10 feet from his tank unless one of the dogs carried him that far i have no idea. no tooth marks on him

[Northernguy]

It is possible the other fish ate it if it died in the tank.
If it jumped out....do you have a cat?
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[HeatherB]

is there any holes in the decor he could have swam up in an died?

Maybe he saw the light at the end of the python and couldn't help himself? ROFLMAO

[Lab_Rat]

How big are the tankmates? If he was small enough to fit inside the gourami's mouth then he could have been dinner. I used to have tetras that I couldn't find for days in my heavily planted tank and then suddenly they'd reappear.

[King Tut]

I just had a Glofish go MIT and then a a day and a half later I looked in the tank and there he was. I had pulled everything up and could not find it. Fish are very magical hide and seek creatures!!!! LOL

[LethalResistanz]

I was getting a pair of convicts from petsmart like 3 days ago. The guy bagged the male turned around and couldn't find the female. There was one peace of decor he knocked it over to see if it was hiding in it. Me and him were looked to make sure he didn't bag them both at once then we scanned the floor like 5 times to see if she jumped out.

Like 10 minutes passed and it was hiding like camouflage in the front left corner of the tank.

[red eyes]

I've had fish go missing for over a week.
just make sure it's not dead and missing.