Where did he go?

[JENUINE]

I just put a small albino bristlenose pleco in my 55 gallon tank and overnight he has disappeared! I've searched everywhere and cannot find him. Would any of the following have eaten him? (Upside down cat, rosy barb, stripped danio, dwarf blue gourami, cory cats, apple snail, serpae tetra, lemon tetra, silver tip tetra, blood fin tetra, panda cory, lemon tetra). I even checked HOB thinking he might have swam up the spout and checked floor area, no luck! Any ideas???:help:

[Northernguy]

Keep looking !lol
They do hide well.It may have buried itself in the substrate or under something.Be careful moving stuff around.

[Spardas]

Maybe you'll find him at night with a flashlight, :hmm3grin2orange: .

[~Col~]

If you have plants, look on the underside of the leaves. My pleco loves to cling to the underside or even snuggled down inbetween two leaves like a blanket.

[cocoa_pleco]

hes probably hiding, ive had some fish that i thought were dead and 2-4 years later i find them alive

[dane]

wow that is crazy i don't understand how someone cant find a fish if you really want to find him take everything out and look carefully dig around in the sand if you have sand look under and around stuff look behind heaters or intake tubes if he is in the tank you will find him . we had another member on here that couldn't find there pleco for months its not like they go invisible .

[Lady Hobbs]

Lots of room for a small BN in that tank. He'll probably appear once he's used to the tank.

[OrionXI]

Those apple snails do have a voracious appetite.. >__>

jk.. xD

[cocoa_pleco]

wow that is crazy i don't understand how someone cant find a fish if you really want to find him take everything out and look carefully dig around in the sand if you have sand look under and around stuff look behind heaters or intake tubes if he is in the tank you will find him . we had another member on here that couldn't find there pleco for months its not like they go invisible .


some hide good, i had a lobster that i thought died and over 2 years later he came out at night trying to kill some cories, the lobster had a huge tunnel system in the gravel.

[bludusty]

They do hide very well. My male will hide his brood of eggs in driftwood cracks and once found him inside a small Grecian ornament column tube with a bunch of babies. Had a heck of a time trying to get him out of there after he fanned out.

[JENUINE]

Trial and error for me...had it once, won't have it again...
My baby albino bristlenose pleco re-appeared 5 days after entering his new home. Boy, was it a good feeling to see him skittering around on the glass. He's got a big world to live in a 55 gallon world and he's so tiny-only about inch and a half. Hope he likes his tankmates. Phew, watta relief.:22:

[Gisela]

I know the feeling. My bumblebee south american catfish is a lot in hiding. Sometime I don't see him for weeks!