Disappeared-fish problem. Help solve?

Question

We bought 2 new janitor fishes weeks ago... Both of them in a separate aquarium (indoor)... But just last week ago or so, one of them

disappeared! It wasn't anywhere outside nor inside the aquarium. It's not even in the other aquarium! Goldfishes were the only fishes in that aquarium... They don't have teeth to eat such fish. Nobody in this house even knows how it disappeared. Even the ones who visit us everyday.

In fact, it can't even disappear in thin air!

Answer 1

Do you have a cat?

Answer 2

do you have a cat?? for obvious reasons or else I would say that someone in the house did it and doesn't want to tell you. Maybe it died and they didn't want you to see it

Answer 3

Omg the same thing happened to me i had 3 small tropical fish and over about two years they all disappeared! And we never found there bodys even we washed out the tank, my only theory [as i dont have a cat] was that they got sucked up the filter? or disintegrated?  

Answer 4

What are the size of the janitor fish and Goldfish and what type of Goldfish is it? Even without teeth it is possible for the Goldfish to have eaten it. Especially if it is large enough just to suck it up and fit the whole thing in it's mouth.  

When introducing new fish like you Janitor fish to you tank always, complete a water change the day before and rearrange everything in your tank such as dips in the gravel, ornaments,..stuff like that.

Your Goldfish feel like it is their tank and may get very territorial so by rearranging everything in the tank it starts your old fish and your new fish over again for gaining territory.

I would suggest cleaning your filter too. It may be too late to find the fish in their since the constant heavy water flow would make it decay that much faster but if it did die and dissolve in your filter it will just be filtering Nitrites into your tank which could get all your goldfish sick.

Good luck with your mystery! Hope this helps!

Answer 5

it happens

we had a very small eel style fish (about an inch long) & somehow it "jumped" out of the tank & we found it shriveled up about a week later

I also had 2 frogs & one of them literally just "disappeared" too

we think the other frog ate it or something

froggie cannibalism I guess

Answer 6

Any friends who like to play practical jokes?  Sounds like someone's not telling the truth.  

Answer 7

somebody could of taken them but

look on the ground they can jump and other animals could of taken them

fish dont need teeth to eat other animal, like koi eat goldfish or beta fish

if you have a filter he could of gotton stuck in the filter

hope you find your fish!

Answer 8

i have had fishes dissapear. they usually either jump out and someting out side eats it( dog or cat) or they get sucked up in the filter. or they die and the other fish bury it in the rocks. it happens alot. and dont take the goldfish for granted... they are sneeky suckers

Answer 9

do kids visit you?

cause some kids steal fish no joke

a kid took the fish from my grandma and put it in his pocket

cause he wanted that fish

Answer 10

ask all the youngsters in the house also if u have any cats check all the places it normally goes

Answer 11

what kind of janitor fish?!!! thats SO important here- if they were stripy and thin, almost like baby snakes- then they're probably khuli loach.  they burrow under the substrate and only come out at night to scavenge.  

Answer 12

in fact they can blend in soooo well, that you wont find em. and they can dissapear in thin air. if they die they'll just like disolve or something. that happened to my friends fish.

Answer 13

it could have flopped its self far away from the tank, and once theyre dead and dried up they can be hard to see. it could also be hiding really well.

Answer 14

Do you have a cat, or a young child in the house?  I once found our poor little beta fish, dead and dried up in my daughter's shoe, about two weeks after he "disapeared".

Answer 15

Look on the filter if you have one in tank. It would take one big goldfish to gulp it up but you never know. Cats? Even some dogs? Could have it flipped out of tank somehow when it was bieng cleaned? I would check the filter system though as many fish get stuck inside that. Horrible to think about but it happens. Good luck with the mystery.  

Answer 16

If the "janitor fish" is a sucking loach / chinese algae eater, then they can be phenomenal jumpers - I nearly lost mine that way, as until then, I hadn't been too concerned about leaving the tank uncovered for a while.

It could have jumped out and got lost on the floor.

Answer 17

It could have:

got sucked into the filter

died and quickly decaded

got bury underneath rocks/stuck

The same thing happened to my aquatic-frog...I furgured my fish ate it...but for such a big thing for my fish's small mouth!

Answer 18

That happened to me once, I had a huge pleco and then he disappeared, never found it.