where have all the guppies gone????

[Whiskas]

I check my guppies every morning and nite, at least. There have been a couple of poorly lookin guppies as of late (they were quite skinny). Anyway, I usually notice the sick ones in the evening and think 'i will sort it in the morning' as it is usually just before i go to bed. But lately in the morning the fish hav disappeared completely (this is only the sick ones i am talking about) I search all over the tank for them and cant find any trace of them anywhere! Even one i had in a holdign net thing disappeared! How can they just disappear in just one nite? The other fish in the tank are: BN, platies and neon tetras.

Its such a mystery.

Unfortuantely the latest disappearance was a lovely little snakeskin male, and i have seperated a beautiful tux female who looks as if she has swim bladder

[Adrienne]

My thoughts, and I haven't had guppies for a while, is that they have been cannabilised. Don't know about the one in the net though unless they jumped out!

[becc4]

I have cannibalism in my guppy tank. I had some lovely snakeskin ones which diappeared. Aren't those blimmin tri colours a hardy strain! Every time I try to get some other strains they do no last and the tri colours hang in there

[Adrienne]

My experience is that if a fish dies and you're not quick enough removing the body theres not much left if anything.

[Keri Anne]

Bn may have eaten it if it died over night. :-?

[Johannes Visser]

My experience is that if a fish dies and you're not quick enough removing the body there's not much left if anything.

make sense !

[me love fishy]

yep any fish that die left long enough will be eaten or kind of rot away and it is amazing how quickly that will happen. I recently lost a congo tetra and they are not particularly small maybe 6-8 cm long with a round body and I can't find it anywhere, I presume it has been eaten. It was there at night and not the next day, it had been sick so it was not totally unexpected.