I bought 2 male guppies on Saturday......

Question

... to add to my community tank. I have already in the tank - another 2 male guppies, 4 rummynose tetra, 2 albino corys, 2 african dwarf frogs, a hong kong pleco (stays small) and an old male betta...

My new guppies were fine on Saturday and yesterday, and they were all there this morning when I fed them... I've just been looking in my tank, and one of the guppies has totally disappeared...!!!! I can't see him anywhere, and neither are there any 'remains' of him.... what's going on?!?!?!!?!?

Before anyone says it's the betta - he has been in my tank the longest, nearly 2 years now, and he's never been aggressive to the other fish, especially now as he's getting old and slowed down alot.

Over the weekend, I watched my tank alot, as I always do when I add new fish, and I didn't see any aggression towards the guppies from any of the fish, it all looked like a nice peaceful tank.....

I have a lid, so he can't have 'jumped ship'....!!!!

I presume he must have been eaten :( but which of the other fish would have done that - and not left any bones???

Answer 1

Well since plecos will feed on animal matter(dead fish) it has seemed that your guppy just died of illness/poor water quality at the pet store and the pleco and the other fish just started to eat him untill he was gone also fish will eat the fish whole with bones(since their so tiny) and everything

Answer 2

Dwarf Frogs - personally not a fan of the frogs myself but i have a little experience as my boyfriend kept Albinos with his fish.  I would almost bet my money it was the frog, which eats everything, including tasty bones.  If you guppy was just introduced it would have been slower as it would have been dealing with the move, new water, temperature and new fish etc.  If it was still the frog could easily have grabbed it.

Sweety, I'm afraid this is just one of these things, it too have lost fish to things like my red crabs.  Also i have 5 guppies in with 3 females Betta's and a male betta and they get on great, if they are in groups they do not hassle the others.

Hope this helps and watch those frogs :-)

Answer 3

why are you bothered? guppies are like 50p each lol my nan has a tank of like 50 of them

Answer 4

It's probably been eaten by your other fish or got caught on the filter.

One of my fish dissapeared too, but my catfish had eaten it ='(

Answer 5

He was eaten by the other fishes.

Answer 6

None of your fish would intentionally predate a new guppy, but it could be that it either died of natural causes and the body was eaten - fish bodies won't last long, especially with corys about. They can disappear without trace overnight.

Or could it have become trapped in decor? Fish can get into surprising places.

FYI the hong kong pleco isn't a pleco, it isn't even a catfish. Its a river loach, it does better in sub-tropical (low end tropical) tanks with very strong currents (which your betta would HATE especially).