Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 1, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 1, 2008 I havent seen my little oto catfish in over a week and i've looked everywhere but i just cant find him!! Where could he be??? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Powerdragon Posted September 1, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 1, 2008 Hmm well i hope that he wouldn't be stuck under a piece of decoration. Maybe he has jumped out of your tank? I remember when my little fishy did that, i found him on the floor all dried up after school and i was shattered. Hope that he would turn up for you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted September 1, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 1, 2008 Don't give up hope! I bought two ottos last month and within a few days they'd both dissappeared, and I assumed they had died. Well about a week later one of them was swimming around, perfectly healthy. He still goes missing from time to time. The other one never did show up, but I haven't counted him out either! Do you have a lot of plants? I've noticed they'll cling to the undersides of those. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Powerdragon Posted September 2, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 2, 2008 I spoke to a guy at a pet shop/aquarium yesterday when i brought my plants for my new tank and they guy said that they often "disappear" for up to a week and seem to end up in neighbouring tanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Trinket Posted September 2, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 2, 2008 Lol the little tricksters! How do they do that 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 3, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2008 well he really is gone. I took everything out of the tank looked in everything, looked through the gravel, vacumed every inch of the tank and looked in the filters which he couldnt fit in anyways but he's not anywhere. And i thought if I would've acciadently sucked him up with the python last week, he would have be in some tank when i filled one but he's not anywhere, I also looked around the tank but he's not there either 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member alexiscool Posted September 3, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2008 does the tank have a full hood? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted September 3, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 3, 2008 Sorry to hear that Shamu 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member newbiefishgirl Posted September 4, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 Yikes! Sorry to hear about that Jules! Is he an escape artist or what? When you cleaned the tank did you see anything that would look like remains at all? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 does the tank have a full hood? yeah it covers most of the tank Yikes! Sorry to hear about that Jules! Is he an escape artist or what? When you cleaned the tank did you see anything that would look like remains at all? no i didnt see anything, and I had already looked once or twice when I first noticed that he was gone. I wonder wat happened to the poor thing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted September 4, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 Whenever I have a smaller fish die in my community tank, unless I see it happen, I never find a body I actually lost an otto a few weeks ago... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 but it couldnt just dissappear that quickly, i searched the tank just a few days after he first dissappeared. Cuz i mean, eventhough its a small fish, the bones couldnt dissintegrate (spelling?) in a few days could they? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member balashark Posted September 4, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 What else is in the tank? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 4, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 What else is in the tank? 4 platies, was 3 for awhile but i added a 4th one recently, after he dissapeared 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member balashark Posted September 4, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 hmm, there goes my theory. Sorry your otto disappeared Shamu. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Chrissy_Bee Posted September 4, 2008 Regular Member Share Posted September 4, 2008 I'm not sure what happens, but the times I've lost fish I've never found so much as a bone either.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regular Member Shamu23 Posted September 5, 2008 Author Regular Member Share Posted September 5, 2008 hmm, there goes my theory. Sorry your otto disappeared Shamu. yeah i dont think the platies had anything to do with it I'm not sure what happens, but the times I've lost fish I've never found so much as a bone either.... strange..poor lil guy though, he was a good fishie 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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