alright, this has been going on for a while and i need to know where my fish packs those pounds away! i have 3 fishes in a 50 gallon tank, we have plants n rocks n large shells and some fixtures that should serve as cover. well on Sunday my mom bought about 5 dozen guppies avg 2.5cm in length and probably 5 dozen brine shrimp also avg 2 cm in length. today is monday… and i cant find ANY guppies or shrimp!
heres what i got in the tank
a tiger oscar whose about 10 inches in length, had her for several years ever since she was little ^^
some unknown fish who manged to survive not being eaten by my oscar.. its around 4-5 inches in length and circle shaped with black stripes going down a silver body
and a recently added red tilapia who has added by my dad who came home from a fishing trip.. my dad threw it in and it sank to the bottom. he told me to lift it up holding it about 2 inches from the surface of the water to help it regain it self. and, well its scared but alive.
kinda ran out room but ya.. how can 3 fish, mostly just 2 because i doubt the tilapia ate anything being so scared, but ya… my fishes seem to never hunt during the day, because during the day food can swim right in front of her mouth and she does nothing.. but once night hits and i wake up the next morning half the tank is missing! lmao. so how can they eat 120 pieces of food within about 2 days and not be sluggish or tired looking or fat looking at all? either they have an insanely high metabolism or theres something else living in that tank…that foods supposed to last a at least a week or 2.. and with them eating a week+ worth of food in 2 days! WTH?! lol
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i googled mono fish it and no its not that, this circular fish is more like a blue gill.. it has about 5 black stripes running down its plain grey/silver body. if the sun hits its side while no lights are on in the house it has a purpleish gleam
ahhhh one more question, we also had a 4inch Royal Catfish (black spotted lots of big fins), hoped it would help keep the tank clean.. along with some peach colored sucker fish.. and i think my fish ate those to o.O but the weird thing is waking up and not find any part of the fish left?! youd think if it was a big ol 4inch cat fish with lots of fins and also pretty fast you’d find some carcase left somewhere.. but there absolutely no trace at all ><
nope its not a tiger barb..
ya ive checked everywhere to see if they were hiding some where.. all i found was 1 lonely shrimp hanging out by the side of a rock..
its not really that many rocks n shells, we have 1 flat rock, 1 big shell, 2 plants.. 2 are floating, a small rock castle made of large-ish funky shaped rocks stacked on top of each other, and anchor looking thing, and a tunnel type thing. searched everyone.. and only that 1 shrimp was found.. and small shells are the place to. the bottom is all small rocks.. but still!!! how can they eat that much food in such a short period of time and not look any different?!