matty87 Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Good Morning, I have a 4ft 300lt tank that has been up and running for a couple of months and initally I used a filter off my old tank to seed the new one. I had 1 large synodontis catfish approx 10cm in there by himself. about 3-4 weeks ago i added 12 juvenile platys and 2 juvenile albino corys. I know i shouldn't have added so many at once however it was in the tank or the person i got them from would have gotten rid of them another way. I also added 4 snails a couple of weeks later and one of them died the first night. Initially they were fine and within 3-4 days a few went missing. Then a week later a few more had gone missing. Im now down to 3 of the platys (the syno, corys and snails are fine). I have been doing waterchanges and testing the water since i got them and PH is around 7.6, temp is 26 degrees, ammonia 0, nitrite 0 and nitrates 5.0ppm. All of the fish have been swimming around like normal, they have all been eating and none have shown strange behaviour. I'm also not finding any of the missing fish bodies in the tank anywhere. I need some help so i don't loose anymore. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotzy Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 do they go missing at night after your syno eats them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yellows Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Sounds like one of them might be eating the others mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty87 Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 I originally thought that but the one that went missing last night was about 2-3cm in size and didn't think he would be able to eat something that size??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotzy Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 what type of syno is it? can have decent mouths and doent have to eat it in one go. most likey thats your answer, put your syno in a differnt tank and youll find out if he was eatting them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty87 Posted March 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 its a synodontis eupterus featherfin squeaker and if i had another tank i definately would.... i guess i will have to go with adult fish from now on or get rid of him??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotzy Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 itll get over 20cm long i have them with cichlids no prob. small fish make nice snacks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Obeice Posted April 12, 2014 Report Share Posted April 12, 2014 Sounds like you were feeding your syno some extra protein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barehere Posted April 16, 2014 Report Share Posted April 16, 2014 Yep . Yum Yum . They went in his Tum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty87 Posted April 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 17, 2014 I got a breeder net for the last of the fish so they have survived and i will let them loose when they are a bit bigger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
