Missing Platie

[Enin]

I moved my 10 platies, 2 cories,2Tetras and 1 common pleco from a 20 gallon tank to a 58 gallon tank on Sunday. Today I went to do a water change and there are only 9 platies in the tank. I looked on the floor all around the tank. I even had my wife and kid search the whole house. Ive never had a fish just vanish before so that must mean the others ate it. But ive never seen aggresion from any of them. Is it possible the pleco ate it? Im stumpped.

[fishboyt]

Have you checked around the decorations in the tank?

[Enin]

I have checked everywhere in my whole house. I removed all rocks and decorations from the both tanks. Its a bright orange fish!!!. I dont have any animals. Either the other fish ate him/her or the fish swam into a wormhole or something.

[nhung]

The pleco did not eat it. Not a chance. How long has it been since you seen 10 platies?

[mnemenoi]

I have had a fish die unnoticed before and be consumed slowly by the other inhabitants. Not certain that occurred, but nothing in the tank sounds as if it was the killer. I have had a silver hatchetfish population that has dwindled over 4 years from 8 to 3 and I think I have actually only fished a single dead one out. I will say that on one occasion quite some many years ago we had a power failure and my brother's Dwarf Gourami went missing and we could not locate it, after about 6 months we had another power failure and I noticed him emerge from a undergravel filter lift!!! He was quite emaciated, though after a few weeks he returned to normal and lived for quite some time after that. I found the UG filter was the favorite hiding spot for my skunk loaches and coolie's as well so you never know.

[villa1973]

i seen plecos eating dead fish before, either ,tghe fish is dead in the plants, or is out of the tank or it has been eaten.

[Enin]

Now there are only 8 platies. No dead anywhere to be found. I may have to move the entire tank. My wife could be right about the fish swimming into another universe or black hole or something.

[Mzungu]

Do you have any snails in the tank?

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[Enin]

There are no snails. There are 8 platies, 2 tetra, 2 Cories, 1 common pleco.

[Philbert]

I will tell you a secret known only to those with Brown Commons...they will eat the heck out of a dead fish...I have seen Mollies nibbling on a dead fish, but plecos will chow down on carrion in the tank.
My plecos (all kinds) sometimes go to the top and cruise along eating the flake I spread for the other fish in the tank...I've had them start eating the slime coat on some of my live Angels before...weird.
They can eat a bit of a dead Platy for sure.

[Nickintex]

That's not the only thing that has been missing.

PHILBERT! Where have you been? We missed you. :)

[Philbert]

Lurking... :)

Ya'll are in my thoughts...I work alla time to maintain my status quo ($3 over the Poverty Line), but I did manage to visit Dave at PetPrison, and get some updates.
Really wanted to make the auction, but HAD to work.
I really wish the climate would hurry up and do the Ice Age thing, I'm pulling for Global Cooling. No fun working in 110F heat... :)