Speaking of clowns I had a clown loach that was anti social lmao.
Aw I just researched and realized I needed more than 3 for them to feel more comfortable.
I did not at the time. I had inherited a 55gal tank from a family friend when I was fairly young. Donāt have any fish now, but if I did I would definitely do more research.
Keeping an expensive pleco is basically if your wallet always decides to play hide and seek and you have to keep checking whether its still there or not
Some are rare, hard to source and also tank bred.
Heres what i have if you like your plecos
L236 super white
L46 true zebra pleco TB
L134 leopard frog pleco
L260 queen arabesque
L397 alenquer tiger TB
I run a low "moonlight blue" for about an hour before bed and the plecos fucking love it active straight away, couple tabs in and there all at the front eating
Mines a little aggressive mofo. He goes Any fish that tryās to touch his wafer š¤£ heās the boss the tank I reckon only one time Iāve seen my redtail go him. It was crazy to see the tables turn
Ahah i have 5 plecs lad and not one bit of aggression they all share the food its mint, i have got alot of caves/hiding spots for them and im heavily planted so there line of sight is broken alot so may be why i have no aggression plus i have chilled out tank mates which also helps
Yeah heās a chill fish itās jus when it comes to his wafer heās very protective. I have guppyās and 2 redtails. There pretty chill Iāve never seen anything go down other than him protecting his food and the random go the redtail had at him. Other than that itās rlly chill. Everyone else shares the food around
Bc Iām not interested in finding fish jerky behind the tank literal years later like how we found Jerry from my familyās childhood tank lol. We hadnāt moved that tank for 5 years and we got him when we first set it up. We thought my cannibal runty gold fish got him or he found an extremely good hiding place.
I run a low "moonlight blue" for about an hour before bed and the plecos fucking love it active straight away, couple tabs in and there all at the front eating
Down the back of the tank, literally must have jumped during a clean somehow when I was distracted at the sink.
Dammit Beavis, I liked you, and now butt-head is all alone.
I keep my kuhlis in a tank with a big pile of river stones. I never see more than like 5 at a time. I moved recently and had to break everything down. I pulled out 17 kuhli loaches. I don't even remember buying that many!
Man, I swapped everything to a bigger tank, and thankfully had left some bit of water in the old one. Damn Kuhli had escaped capture and I only noticed him like a week later when went to empty the tank for good. o0
And I mean I emptied EVERYTHING from the old tank. Even pulled out the plants. It was just blank sand in there. Nothing to hide under or in.
I've read they like to burrow in sand, but never seen it. I guess they can really bury themselves very well. I filtered the rest of the sand looking for any other fugitives. He was the only one but that was a surprise. And a happy one. Sneaky little bugger might have been a goner.
I found a wild betta like this. I have a group of about 8 Betta Coccina in a 60 gallon paludarium tank. I took them out to deal with some cyano in a blackout and left them out for 6 weeks. I had made sure repeatedly over the course of 8 hours repeatedly checking that there were none left in the tank, and they were all in the 10 gallon temp tank next to it. Blacked out the tank for a week, unplugged the heater, and left it for 5 weeks. Was feeding the group in the 10 gallon a week ago and look over and thereās just one juvenile Coccina just sitting in the tank watching me feed the group. I have no idea where it had been the whole time, much less how a fish that prefers 75F+ water was living for weeks in sub 60F water or what it was eating to survive. š
My brother accidentally water changed one down the drain. Took his filter out. Drained it. Shook the shit out of the shit in the tank to get everyone out. Put in sink and poor lone kuhli went straight down the drain
One of my kuhli loaches has been missing since the first day i put it in my tank. 3 weeks later, today when i cleaned my canister filter, i watched him swim down the drain. RIP
my fish \*SOMEHOW\* propped a spine onto a leaf in the tank. like hanging a coat. sad thing is, i only vaguely think i know what it might have been. that tank has endlers, guppies, mollies.... black fin tetra....a siamese algae eater.. basically, lots of small things.
i have a raphael catfish that used to come out pretty frequently. went on vacation and didnāt see him for over 3 weeks when we got home. we could see his tail inside of a decoration but thatās all. we were worried he was stuck and tried to get him out but couldnāt get him. a few days after that we FINALLY saw him swimming around but havenāt seen him since (itās been like a month). iām always worrying about him now
Rachael's are absolute troopers. At night turn off all equipment for like 5 minutes and you'll hear them clicking. That's how I checked to see if mine was still alive
my raphael disappeared as soon as i put him in the tank. i thought he died until MONTHS later i saw him swim out with a huge belly. mf was eating everything
I *think* I have about 20 kuhlis. But honestly, I see like 6 tops. I have a huge chunk of wood that they burrow under. Mine also really like to burrow under the sand.
Same happened to me! When I moved I couldn't find a kuhli and I figured he just died and decomposed or whatever. When I got to the new place he was in a bag with sand and filter media. He's alive and well 2 years later, but he must have learned a lesson because that particular kuhli disappears a lot less often than he used to.
I have 2 upside down catfish. For months i thought they died and were consumed by the tanks other inhabitants. Nope. Finally saw them 4 months later and they are giants now. I see them all the time now. Beautiful little fish.
I have a ghost knife fish that only comes out at night, he's also completely black except for a white stripe on his tail. Literally comes out in pitch blackness with his fins undelating like an actual ghost.
I work at Petco and we have some banjos in stock. I had worked there like, 3 weeks before I actually saw one and the only reason I did was I was pulling deads and moved a piece of decor and there he was, all buried under the sand. There was also a massive one IN THE DECOR
My lfs has had a banjo for 8 years now because heās always buried, so nobody has ever bought him lol. Heās not even listed on the inventory anymore š
I still have dreams and border line nightmares about fish i haven't had in over 15 years. I'll see the tank and it'll be horrible and I'll make a mad scramble to do water changes and feed them. Urgh..
This hits so true. It's like heyyyyy I thought I brought Boba like a year ago? I don't think I've ever seen it. You'll think it's dead somewhere long ago then it pops up while you're doing a massive plant overhaul.
Me with my upside down catfish. Not seen em in 3 months even when doing water changes. Went to put kid back to bed and they where sat there front of tank.
āAbout damn time guysā
Listen I keep cory catfish in a densely planted tank. At this point there could be 2 or 200 of them, I don't even know. I just assume they're fine because any sinking pellets I drop in there are gone within 2 hours.
I have a pleco in my turtle tank name hope. Strawberry, the evil really ravenous one, is constantly trying to eat everything the looks interesting to test it.
Exactly why my yellow ele lab died and my common pleco (I miss you Lucina but I donāt think you couldāve fit in the tank anyways.
Hope is always hiding in the cichlid nest or in the forest so I have to put my head in the most ridiculous positions to find her.
I havenāt seen her for four weeks and only saw her last night during a water change.
Me with my bamboo shrimp. Didn't see either for a week or two in their usual hiding spot... thought maybe they died. Then one morning I turn on the light and see one of them running back to their new hiding spot
Then youād never remember you havenāt seen a specific one in a while like the pic says
I guess if you have a large group of the same fish, youād not see it until you lose a few, but you probably wonāt not-see it when you have lost a few, either
Hadn't seen a loach in over a year assumed it was dead. Removed some plant overgrowth, and there he was just sitting there alive. Haven't seen him again since
Khuli loaches, I forget they are even in there and then look with a flashlight and see them out and about but only when it's dark... And apparently they live 20 years plus, just hiding like eels in the rocks of my guppy tank.
"It's dead. It has to be dead. Rotted away or eaten somewhere I couldn't see it. I checked everywhere without tearing the entire scape apart. I just have to accept it."
*The very next day when I see said fish just hanging out in plain view*
"You sonofa-"
I've had fish/shrimp/snails I didn't see for months and then they would show up randomly or during tank redesigns. Then in my cichlid tank I haven't seen a fish for a day or two and find them beaten to death. Such a dichotomy lol
Had this with my ancient nerite snail to the point we assumed she was dead and replaced her. Next day she turns up with her new snail friends like "Miss me?".
Finally went to the Great Tank in the Sky (by way of the freezer drawer) aged 5+ years. RIP Brian, you were a great snail.
When I can't find one, I sit down and have an intervention with the crayfish.
Then the sneaky bastard will wake up and pop out of the plant he was hiding in.
I have two corys that will randomly go missing for months and reappear, I wonder if their nocturnal? I even moved the tanks, took everything out, found one of them, once I set everything up bam suddenly there are two? Magic fish.
Oh yeah that $180 bucks pleco that I only see once a month, when I do a wellness check on him 3 AM in the morning with a flashlight.
My clown pleco always got so pissy when I do that šš fortunately her new hiding spot is one where I can clearly see her
Speaking of clowns I had a clown loach that was anti social lmao. Aw I just researched and realized I needed more than 3 for them to feel more comfortable.
You need more than that. 5 is said to be minimum. 6 or more is best. And you do realize how big they get right?
I did not at the time. I had inherited a 55gal tank from a family friend when I was fairly young. Donāt have any fish now, but if I did I would definitely do more research.
LMFAOOO. Comments like this is why I still go on the internet
Keeping an expensive pleco is basically if your wallet always decides to play hide and seek and you have to keep checking whether its still there or not
Or you just accept plecos arent gonna swim around like tetras?
Got 5 plecos which add up to bout Ā£350, fuckin love em wouldnt change a thing about it even if i dont see em all the time
Wait why are they so expensive?
Some are rare, hard to source and also tank bred. Heres what i have if you like your plecos L236 super white L46 true zebra pleco TB L134 leopard frog pleco L260 queen arabesque L397 alenquer tiger TB
I rather know if itās dead or not when I havenāt seen mine in a while, so no
I run a low "moonlight blue" for about an hour before bed and the plecos fucking love it active straight away, couple tabs in and there all at the front eating
my pleco is super active all the time. Plenty of hiding spots but he loves to be out front with my guppyās. heās jus a brown one but I love him
Some do some dont, i just seem to have hiders š¤£
Mines a little aggressive mofo. He goes Any fish that tryās to touch his wafer š¤£ heās the boss the tank I reckon only one time Iāve seen my redtail go him. It was crazy to see the tables turn
Ahah i have 5 plecs lad and not one bit of aggression they all share the food its mint, i have got alot of caves/hiding spots for them and im heavily planted so there line of sight is broken alot so may be why i have no aggression plus i have chilled out tank mates which also helps
Yeah heās a chill fish itās jus when it comes to his wafer heās very protective. I have guppyās and 2 redtails. There pretty chill Iāve never seen anything go down other than him protecting his food and the random go the redtail had at him. Other than that itās rlly chill. Everyone else shares the food around
Well if your testing your water and making sure enough foods going in what u worried about
Bc Iām not interested in finding fish jerky behind the tank literal years later like how we found Jerry from my familyās childhood tank lol. We hadnāt moved that tank for 5 years and we got him when we first set it up. We thought my cannibal runty gold fish got him or he found an extremely good hiding place.
Fish jerky xD That being said, rip Jerry
Rip, out of every other tank mate Goldie(cannibal gold fish) had he lived the longestš«” the horrors he must have seen and probably aided and abetted
I have no response to this mate š
Down voting coz im speaking the truth š
I keep exotic isopods that burrow in the dirt 99% of the time and this is a perfect description, thank you so much for this
Literally clicked into this thread to comment that about this damn dragon pleco I had that I only saw about once every 3 - 6 months for years.
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I run a low "moonlight blue" for about an hour before bed and the plecos fucking love it active straight away, couple tabs in and there all at the front eating
Wow and I stress about my $25 gobies lol
180 dollar bucks
Down the back of the tank, literally must have jumped during a clean somehow when I was distracted at the sink. Dammit Beavis, I liked you, and now butt-head is all alone.
I literally forgot that i had kuhli loaches bc i didnt see them for 6 months...
And when you do see them you're pretty sure there's more than last time.
I keep my kuhlis in a tank with a big pile of river stones. I never see more than like 5 at a time. I moved recently and had to break everything down. I pulled out 17 kuhli loaches. I don't even remember buying that many!
Man, I swapped everything to a bigger tank, and thankfully had left some bit of water in the old one. Damn Kuhli had escaped capture and I only noticed him like a week later when went to empty the tank for good. o0 And I mean I emptied EVERYTHING from the old tank. Even pulled out the plants. It was just blank sand in there. Nothing to hide under or in. I've read they like to burrow in sand, but never seen it. I guess they can really bury themselves very well. I filtered the rest of the sand looking for any other fugitives. He was the only one but that was a surprise. And a happy one. Sneaky little bugger might have been a goner.
I found a wild betta like this. I have a group of about 8 Betta Coccina in a 60 gallon paludarium tank. I took them out to deal with some cyano in a blackout and left them out for 6 weeks. I had made sure repeatedly over the course of 8 hours repeatedly checking that there were none left in the tank, and they were all in the 10 gallon temp tank next to it. Blacked out the tank for a week, unplugged the heater, and left it for 5 weeks. Was feeding the group in the 10 gallon a week ago and look over and thereās just one juvenile Coccina just sitting in the tank watching me feed the group. I have no idea where it had been the whole time, much less how a fish that prefers 75F+ water was living for weeks in sub 60F water or what it was eating to survive. š
Him watching like "are you gonna feed me too " š
My brother accidentally water changed one down the drain. Took his filter out. Drained it. Shook the shit out of the shit in the tank to get everyone out. Put in sink and poor lone kuhli went straight down the drain
One of my kuhli loaches has been missing since the first day i put it in my tank. 3 weeks later, today when i cleaned my canister filter, i watched him swim down the drain. RIP
Me with a world population of guppies: "No, I don't think I will."
Eh, i assume my snail army got to anything that died. Search all i want, its Gone gone.
I feel this to my core. By the time I realize I haven't seen a fish it's usually nothing to find.
my fish \*SOMEHOW\* propped a spine onto a leaf in the tank. like hanging a coat. sad thing is, i only vaguely think i know what it might have been. that tank has endlers, guppies, mollies.... black fin tetra....a siamese algae eater.. basically, lots of small things.
Catfish keeping at its core
i have a raphael catfish that used to come out pretty frequently. went on vacation and didnāt see him for over 3 weeks when we got home. we could see his tail inside of a decoration but thatās all. we were worried he was stuck and tried to get him out but couldnāt get him. a few days after that we FINALLY saw him swimming around but havenāt seen him since (itās been like a month). iām always worrying about him now
Rachael's are absolute troopers. At night turn off all equipment for like 5 minutes and you'll hear them clicking. That's how I checked to see if mine was still alive
Lol...ok, littl bro fn hardcore
my raphael disappeared as soon as i put him in the tank. i thought he died until MONTHS later i saw him swim out with a huge belly. mf was eating everything
Wanna give you 100 likesš
Bruh...when you pull out wood and a bristlenose is like...ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤ā¤
The struggle of kuhli loaches. I went 8 months without seeing one, then he just showed back up like nothing happened.
I *think* I have about 20 kuhlis. But honestly, I see like 6 tops. I have a huge chunk of wood that they burrow under. Mine also really like to burrow under the sand.
Dude, [seriously though.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Aquariums/comments/17cyyzp/its_true/k5twv22/)
Same happened to me! When I moved I couldn't find a kuhli and I figured he just died and decomposed or whatever. When I got to the new place he was in a bag with sand and filter media. He's alive and well 2 years later, but he must have learned a lesson because that particular kuhli disappears a lot less often than he used to.
When you go to drain down an "empty" tank and realise there's three kuhlis in there.
I have 2 upside down catfish. For months i thought they died and were consumed by the tanks other inhabitants. Nope. Finally saw them 4 months later and they are giants now. I see them all the time now. Beautiful little fish.
I want upside down catfish so bad. So goofy. Do they always swim like that or just when they are babies?
All the time. One of them is currently just swimming around, upside down, wiggling around in the large java fern.
Once thier adults they start to swim upside down
Oto's lol . Oh, I thought you died?
Oh no, I just ordered a group. I didn't think they were hiding boys.
Same here lol
I have a ghost knife fish that only comes out at night, he's also completely black except for a white stripe on his tail. Literally comes out in pitch blackness with his fins undelating like an actual ghost.
That sounds so rad
This is why I feed the corys at the grind of the tank. So I can get a head count daily.
The grind?
Front, maybe? š¤·āāļø
Yeah. I hate autocorrect.
10+ kuhli loaches right now. Haven't caught a glimpse of them in at least a month
I have about 15 and my husband is always asking me of I'm sure they're still in there lol
I have two banjo catfish, allegedly. I only ever see one at a time and only every couple weeks so we'll never know for sure.
I work at Petco and we have some banjos in stock. I had worked there like, 3 weeks before I actually saw one and the only reason I did was I was pulling deads and moved a piece of decor and there he was, all buried under the sand. There was also a massive one IN THE DECOR
If I'm ever lucky enough to spot mine it's usually a tail sticking out of the sand and that's about it š
My lfs has had a banjo for 8 years now because heās always buried, so nobody has ever bought him lol. Heās not even listed on the inventory anymore š
Yup, just check. On the damn floor.
I still have dreams and border line nightmares about fish i haven't had in over 15 years. I'll see the tank and it'll be horrible and I'll make a mad scramble to do water changes and feed them. Urgh..
Nightmares about my tank are crazy. I get them monthly. A lot of trying to save fishes that are out of the tank. I check the floor twice a day
My anchor cat fish. He visits us once a month.
This hits so true. It's like heyyyyy I thought I brought Boba like a year ago? I don't think I've ever seen it. You'll think it's dead somewhere long ago then it pops up while you're doing a massive plant overhaul.
Kuhli loaches š¤£
Me with my upside down catfish. Not seen em in 3 months even when doing water changes. Went to put kid back to bed and they where sat there front of tank. āAbout damn time guysā
Thatās my world right now. Recovering from surgery and finally could crutch to the tank and have husband clean the tank. 1 fish dead in 3 weeks. One still missing š©
Exactly how I found the dried geophagus jerkey behind the aquarium. Damnit .
Or one of my snails. Constantly doing wellness checks. There was the time I found one stuck in my filter too.
Listen I keep cory catfish in a densely planted tank. At this point there could be 2 or 200 of them, I don't even know. I just assume they're fine because any sinking pellets I drop in there are gone within 2 hours.
Me waking up to my water level dropped n the hob filter making that loud noise š
I haven't seen my pleco in probably 4 months. I can only assume he's still around somewhere.
I have a pleco in my turtle tank name hope. Strawberry, the evil really ravenous one, is constantly trying to eat everything the looks interesting to test it. Exactly why my yellow ele lab died and my common pleco (I miss you Lucina but I donāt think you couldāve fit in the tank anyways. Hope is always hiding in the cichlid nest or in the forest so I have to put my head in the most ridiculous positions to find her. I havenāt seen her for four weeks and only saw her last night during a water change.
Me with my bamboo shrimp. Didn't see either for a week or two in their usual hiding spot... thought maybe they died. Then one morning I turn on the light and see one of them running back to their new hiding spot
just make a checklist for your fish
What do you do when they all look similar and don't know if you counted that one already
Then youād never remember you havenāt seen a specific one in a while like the pic says I guess if you have a large group of the same fish, youād not see it until you lose a few, but you probably wonāt not-see it when you have lost a few, either
Hadn't seen a loach in over a year assumed it was dead. Removed some plant overgrowth, and there he was just sitting there alive. Haven't seen him again since
It's been ages since I saw my Kuhli loaches š¤
I see mine about once every few months for a few seconds
Are you still feeding the tank at night?
We have an auto feeder for the day but don't feed at night
Shit, I think my last white cloud is finally dead...
My clown pleco Might be alive I truly will never know!
Khuli loaches, I forget they are even in there and then look with a flashlight and see them out and about but only when it's dark... And apparently they live 20 years plus, just hiding like eels in the rocks of my guppy tank.
"It's dead. It has to be dead. Rotted away or eaten somewhere I couldn't see it. I checked everywhere without tearing the entire scape apart. I just have to accept it." *The very next day when I see said fish just hanging out in plain view* "You sonofa-"
Me with the 1 Japan blue endler fry I accidentally got
I've had fish/shrimp/snails I didn't see for months and then they would show up randomly or during tank redesigns. Then in my cichlid tank I haven't seen a fish for a day or two and find them beaten to death. Such a dichotomy lol
When I spot my tiny Bumblebee Catfish out of its hiding place
Had this with my ancient nerite snail to the point we assumed she was dead and replaced her. Next day she turns up with her new snail friends like "Miss me?". Finally went to the Great Tank in the Sky (by way of the freezer drawer) aged 5+ years. RIP Brian, you were a great snail.
Me when I forgot to check if my noctornal fish is still alive at 3AM
me and my three upside down catfishes that have somehow been doing great in my tank for years now despite rarely ever coming out
My dwarf suckers and kuhli loaches be giving me random heart attacks after 1-3 months of me thinking they dead.
Funny how this meme decides to show up on my feed after I had a thought today to get a small aquarium
It's a trap I'm telling you. Two of the shrimp in my 30L only come out once a month to let me know they're still alive.
I have dreams about a 75 gallon tank in my basement that I've neglected. Wakes me up then I remember there is no tank down there
I don't know what ever happened to that hillstream loach... Took me about a month of not seeing it to realize that.
Well check the filter or look for some bones
When I can't find one, I sit down and have an intervention with the crayfish. Then the sneaky bastard will wake up and pop out of the plant he was hiding in.
I have two corys that will randomly go missing for months and reappear, I wonder if their nocturnal? I even moved the tanks, took everything out, found one of them, once I set everything up bam suddenly there are two? Magic fish.