so i have my 29 gallon tank which consists of

1 male betta
1 plecostomus
4 swordtails
5 platies
4 balloon mollies
2 killis
1 golden khuli loach

everyone was getting along just fine, or so it seemed..

i woke up this morning to find my betta dead... fins all torn up..

and absolutely no sign of my pleco anywhere. :thinking:

my pleco was a good bit larger than my betta, but somehow if my pleco was killed, theres no trace of his existence.

im confuzzed :happysad:

 

set up a camera.

 

something else ate the pleco?
did it jump out of the tank?

 

plecos are great at hiding.

 

theres only a small spot where anything can get out, but my pleco was always on the bottom of the tank.

all my fish are pretty damn small. the pleco was the biggest thing in there. i dont know a whole lot about fish but it seems that nothing in my tank could really take it down.. and completely destroy it without a trace.

are plecos known to burrow into the gravel? my gravel isnt very deep but thats the only place i havent really looked.

 

drop a fish weapon and see what fish grabs it first,.

 

Betta could have died of other causes and the other fish might of picked at him, shredding his fins.

I'd take a sample of water to a pet or fish store that does free water testing just to make sure everying is ok (checking levels of ammonia, nitrite, nitrate) in the tank. Seems like a lot of fish have made it into that tank in short amount of time so i'd check, just to be safe, that your not going into a mini-cycle (or still in the middle of the initial cycling process).

Plecos like to hide out under things, just dip your hand in and move stuff around to see where he's hiding. Also check behind your tank just in case.

 

A pelican came by to take it back to its daddy.

 

They should make a movie about that. I'd call it ... Searching Pleco.

 

I like Pursuing Pleco myself h: