MrJim
11-14-2009, 01:39 PM
Last Sunday I did some aquascaping with my collection of plastic plants. I wanted to put a bubble curtain in the middle of the tank floor, and ended up needing some weight on the hose so I put the weighted plant thing on the hose, then I had a hole, then I stuck another plant here and there and next thing I know it looked pretty cool.
I also had seven neons last Sunday.
It had been a busy week so I'd not looked in on the tank much.
Wednesday morning there's a note from my wife (she was up late) and said the "papa guppy is missing". So looked around for him but found nothing, figured maybe he died and ended up a comet snack.
Thursday I come home from work and my wife says, "You know you only have three tetras left?" :ssuprised: What? So I look and yup, no bodies and there are only three. They looked great, colors were brilliant. So now I have a mystery.
Friday I come home from work and there are two.
This morning I wake up and there is one.
I watched the tank closely yesterday and this morning, and with the addition of the extra plants I've watched the comet, and it's as though she's taken to some freaky kind of stalking/prowling down low around the plants. All I can figure is that she is snacking on these smaller fish.
Is it possible that a comet would have some predator insticts? I always figured when she ate something (like those two cory episodes I had) that she ate them by accident, just sucking one in when she is sucking up stones when she "vacuums" the gravel. Now I'm just getting suspicious.
The danios and female guppies haven't been affected, but then they are faster & quicker than the "victims" were.
I also had seven neons last Sunday.
It had been a busy week so I'd not looked in on the tank much.
Wednesday morning there's a note from my wife (she was up late) and said the "papa guppy is missing". So looked around for him but found nothing, figured maybe he died and ended up a comet snack.
Thursday I come home from work and my wife says, "You know you only have three tetras left?" :ssuprised: What? So I look and yup, no bodies and there are only three. They looked great, colors were brilliant. So now I have a mystery.
Friday I come home from work and there are two.
This morning I wake up and there is one.
I watched the tank closely yesterday and this morning, and with the addition of the extra plants I've watched the comet, and it's as though she's taken to some freaky kind of stalking/prowling down low around the plants. All I can figure is that she is snacking on these smaller fish.
Is it possible that a comet would have some predator insticts? I always figured when she ate something (like those two cory episodes I had) that she ate them by accident, just sucking one in when she is sucking up stones when she "vacuums" the gravel. Now I'm just getting suspicious.
The danios and female guppies haven't been affected, but then they are faster & quicker than the "victims" were.