My Clown Loachs Are Missing

[bmxer4ever]

There is another slim possibility regarding your missing Clowns....... but it is a long shot.
Although I've still never heard of Clowns breeding in aquaria, one of the reported behavioural symptoms of Clowns preparing to spawn is aggression to the point of killing and eating their tankmates.....
Have you got a REALLY big male and female...?

I know it's a long shot, but it's the only other explanation I can think of.

 

[Mr Pleco]

Well, I looked again through the whole tank and nothing. The only thing I found was a piece of a fin that was red buried under some gravel. So I took my hand and dug in the tank and nothing else. I mean for 4 to jump out and get eattin by a cat is odd. 1 or 2 but 4 come on. Secondly nothing in the filters. I will try to get a pic but one of the big ones still has a bulge on its side

 

[Nic]

i had a cat fish eat my clowns before

 

[fisher12889]

What other fish are in the tank? One of them may have eaten it after it died or something?

 

[Mr Pleco]

What other fish are in the tank? One of them may have eaten it after it died or something?

7 Clown Loachs (2"-10"), 3 Gold Severums, 1 Green Severum, 2 Blood Parrots(1-7"),3 Angel Fish, L-191,L-200,L-91,L-27

 

[fisher12889]

Plecos sometimes eat dead fish, so my best guess would be that they died and the other fish nibbled at them until they were gone. That might explain the piece of red fin that you found...