What ate my Neon's?

Question

what could of eaten my neons? (neon tetra's blue and red)
i have 2 kissing fish
2 blue garami's
4 white mollys
red tailed shark
an eel
albino frog.
and 4 gold neons.
any idea's?

Answer 1

You have a lot of aggressive fish with some peaceful fish, bad combo... Pretty much anything in your tank could have taken out the tiny Neons, but I would guess it was the Eel, Blue Gourami, or the Kissing Gourami... The Eel is the most likely as it is the most aggressive, and probably the one with the biggest mouth. The Shark is aggressive, but only towards fish that invade its territory, not generally towards schooling fish like Neons (though it may nip). Either of the Gouramis could have gobbled them up as a tasty snack, so I would just avoid any more small Neon like fish. Email me if you have any questions.

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Answer 2

Either the frog or the eel if they are big enough would seem the most likely culprits but if the neon's were very small and the Gourami's are large then it's possible they might have had a hand in it. Kissing Gourami's (I presume that's what you mean by Kissing Fish) in particular can get very large and anything large is likely to regard anything small as a potential meal.

Answer 3

I've had an albino frog before and I sometimes fed it on river shrimp as live food, which were bigger than neons. That guy could just chatch them in his hands and stuff them in his mouth like there was no tomorrow! They can definately eat small fish, and WILL do so if they have the chance. He's definately a suspect.

And what type of eel is it? Khuli eels are OK. Young spiney eels are OK until they grow bigger. If it's a freshwater moray, then a bigger suspect then your frog as those things can dislocate their jaw like a snake and swallow large fish.

Answer 4

Gouramis - aren't they also kissing fish? - love to bully other fish. If they can fit the neons in their mouths, down the hatch they go.

Eels and frogs naturally eat fish, ditto fitting neons in their mouths.

You might consider A separate tank for the smaller fish like the mollies and neons.

Answer 5

i had a friend who had a similar tank to yours, and one by one the fish started to dissapear, they believed it was the shark, this carried on until there were nothing but the shark and the frog left, they decided that they needed to get rid of the shark as this is what they believed was doing it, they woke up the following morning ready to seperate the shark and take it to the pet shop, when they saw the sharks tail hanging out the mouth of the frog!

their so called labeled "dwarf frog" was actually a xenopus frog, which the pet shop had omitted to tell her. so my guess would be that it is the frog that is doing it

Answer 6

After keeping tropical fish for over thirty years. I found that when the light in the tank is turned off at night time,your calm and tranquil fish become predaters.Angel fish are ruthless killers of smaller species of fish.
Neons need a under water cave or coral to hide in if you are keeping them with the fish you have.Their ability to shine in the dark is not to their advantage in tank conditions.
you can do another thing if you still wish to keep them,that is to put in a tank seperator,a sheet of glass which keeps them apart,much like is done when keeping siamese fighting fish apart.hopes this helps solve your problem.

Answer 7

it mite be the frog they are known for eating small fish but i had 4 peacock eels and 1 tire track eel 8 neon's with in a day all 8 neon's were gone and my eels were very fat sow i would say the eel ate them mine did

Answer 8

the albino frog maybe -- they get kind of big and have big mouths.

kissing gouramis might have picked on them til they died -- "kissing" is actaully a form of fighting and they can kill smaller fish by kissing them.

they could have just died from water problems and everyone had tetra for dinner. tetras are sensitive to water problems you can't see like ph, ammonia, nitrates, and nitrites.

Answer 9

I would think the frog, if the frog is much bigger than the fish, they will eat them

So, I would say the frog ate your fish, and if you have any more fish that are small enough for the frog to eat, I would get them into a seperate tank, or give the frog its own tank

Answer 10

if it will fit in the fish's mouth they will eat it they are not fussy at all so could have been any of the fish listed, Id be carefull if you have 4 garami's in your tank im guessing the kissing fish are garami's, as they hate each other its best to have one pair of garamis to a tank male and female or they will kill each other eventually unless you have a very big tank, hope that helps