we have a small 6-gallon fish tank that JR got for ian's 4th birthday. we've had a variety of fish in there, but as you can imagine, they don't last too long. our latest casualty has been one of our neon tetras. it hadn't been looking good for awhile; it lost all of its neon coloring and some of its scales looked like they were standing up (always a bad sign).
the odd thing is, we have no idea where it went. like i said, it's not a big tank. there's only so much space in there for a (dead) fish to hide. yet, we can't find it anywhere. it's been missing for days. JR hasn't had the chance to clean out the tank and really look for it; it might be buried under some of the rocks or in a crevice of the petrified wood. i have the heebie-jeebies just thinking about a dead fish rotting away in the tank with our 3 living fish ... who may not live much longer if they have to share the tainted water.
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mabye it jumped out of the tank and fell on the floor, only to get pushed under a couch? We didn't find JSC's cord stump for well over a week because it fell off in our living room and was pushed under a desk.
that's a good theory, but there's a lid on the tank. we checked in the filter area, just in case it got sucked up, but we didn't see anything. it just doesn't make any sense!
Maybe the others ate it? It's happened at our house.
we finally found the poor thing when JR cleaned the tank. it was totally white so it blended in with the rocks at the bottom. and it was also partially covered in fish poop. it also looked like it had been partially eaten; it's backbone appeared to be exposed. what a sad way to go. but we did give it a proper flushing down the toilet.
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