Please Help! Where is my fish?

PLEASE HELP! My Leopard Danio has disapeard. I've looked everywhere and I can't find him. :'( I checked the whole tank, the hood, the floor (incase he might have jumped out at some point) and the filter as one has got in there before.

I don't know what else to do. :'(

I don't know if this has anything to do with this but last night at around midnight I woke up for some reason and I heard a splash in the tank(My tank is in my room), and I noticed they have been chasing each other a lot lately. They were all there this morning before I went to school but one was missing when I got back just now, and my mum always checks during the day to make sure everything is OK and according to her everything was fine. :-\

Maybe this has something to do with it, I don't know. It's the same fish.



Please help. None of the others are acting any differently.  :-\

Thanks

Gwenz

 

Do you have any caves in your tank? I have a female platy that likes to hide in a cave. This cave is made with a lot of room on the inside, so I sometimes have to tip it over to check and make sure she is in there and is okay.

 

No I don't have any caves, but I have a little hole in one of my rocksl that they swim through sometimes, but I checked and hes not there or hiding in any of the plants. :'(

Gwenz

 

Well, I've lost a fish a couple of times before, I mean I looked all over the tank with the airpump off, the filter off, so I could see thru the water better, and still not see the missing fish. Unfortunately, I would eventually find the missing fish laying on the bottom of the tank dead.   The gravel can camouflage the dead fish very well.

Hopefully, your fish has just found a really good hiding place.

 

OK I'll keep looking just incase. :'(

Gwenz

 

Keep your hopes up!!! And recount, recount, recount the fish! ;D

 

Ok. I will, everyones checking the tank and making sure it's not just me who can't see him but no luck.

Gwenz

 

Have you tried taking everything out of the tank? This might make it easier to find the lil buddy.

 

Ok, but what about the other fish? Won't taking everything out make them stressed?

Gwenz

 

I don't know if it will stress them anymore then a water change but wait and see what some other people say.

 

OK. Did you mean to take the gravel out too, or just the rocks and plants and things?

Thansk

Gwenz

 

rocks and plants... and things.

 

Don't take out the gravel.

 

Ok. I hope I find him but there's no sign of him anywhere. I'm going to take the things out 2day like you said to make a further check.

Gwenz

 

Gwenz-

I hope you find your fish. They can swim into the very smallest places and sometimes they die and get caught somewhere, but I think if he were dead your other fish would be reacting badly.

So I am hoping you find out that maybe you just counted wrong.

Rose

 

I wih I had just counted wrong. I've got everyone to count them to make sure it isn't just me, but I only had 2 Leopard danios and had 6 Zebra Danios, but now there is only 1 Leopard. :'( I think later I will try to do what ebbandflow suggested, and take everything out. I just don't understand what could have happened. ??? :-\

Gwenz

 

Well I lost an Oto once and he had gotten himsel wedged up inside of a plant. So when you do take everything out be sure and have a bucket of dechlored water next to your tank and wash and shake all the plants and things out in the water to make sure he isn't just caught in one of them. I didn't find my little guy until it was too late so I wanted you to have the benefit of my experience.

Rose

 

Ok, thanks. I'll do that.

Thanks for the advise.

Gwenz

 

good save rose... I'm sorry to hear that happened to you.

 

I took everything out and I shook the plants in a bucket of dechlored water like Rose said, but I couldn't find him still . I moved some of the gravel with my hand to see if he had got traped under the gravel somehow, but he wasn't there. Where is he? ??? :'(

Gwenz

 

Could he have jumped out of your tank? Have you checked the floor? EEK!

So sorry you haven't found him. I don't know what else to tell you.

Rose

 

I checked the floor but not there. This is really wierd. Hew can't have just vanished.... :-\

Gwenz

 

Sometimes when you stop looking for something, it just turns up. I guess what I'm saying is youve done all you can so keep takin care of your other fish and everything will work out for the best .

 

I suppose and can't do anything more than I have, and the others still need looking after, Maybe I'll get another one on saturday so the one Leopard danio I have left isn't alone.

Thanks

Gwenz

 

did you check the cover. maybe he jumped up where the lights are

 

Yep, there is no sign of him anywhere... :'(

Gwenz

 

I've bought a new Leopard Danio. He's setteling in fine. He's quite young and very active. The other Leopard Danio seems to be happy to have another that the same as him there.

Gwenz

 

Didn't you quarantine him, Gwenz? You may get by with it this time, I hope so, but it is always very important to quarantine new fish as one sick one can wipe out a whole tank and make you very sad.

They need to be in quarantine for at least 4 weeks even if you trust the store or person you get them from. The water they came from may be carrying disease that they don't know about. All tanks have the bacteria of the common fish diseases in them. It is up to us to keep the tank maintenance up and the fish healthy enough so that those bacteria don't take over. That is why it is especially important that we don't take chances with new fish.

Rose

 

My Q tank isn't cycled yet, so I couldn't put him in there. :-\ I suppose I should have waited until it was, before getting him.  :-[ My other Leopard Danio looked lonly, even though he is used to shoaling with the Zebra Danios.
I hope he'll be ok. The people at my lfs usually know what they are talking about. I spoke to someone different yesterday ( I've never seen him there before), and he said it would be ok. I guess I won't listen to him again. :-\ What should I do? Should I just leave him there?

Thanks

Gwenz

 

Its been six days, surely he has been eaten by now. Sorry. Since you've already got the new fish in there go ahead and leave it just keep a close watch for disease. Now relax and enjoy your fish
Carol

 

Ok. Thanks for all the advise everyone.

Gwenz