rummy nose tetra.........

 went to my lfs other day to buy some fish,got 5 rummy nose tetra and 3 golden algi eaters.every day i am missing a tetra or 2,this morning there are none????i think they were too small for the tank and wellhave ended up as fish food [:'(] they were so cute too

 Oh dear that's a shame

Are you sure they aren't hiding somewhere?

What other fish are in the tank?

 What fish are you assuming eat it, what's in the tank with them?

Are you sure that's the real reason, maybe it was a dodgy batch?

FD

 could have been a dodgy batch,i just thought with them being so small my bigger fish may have fancied  nibble but i cant see the silver sharks or golden gourami doing it and there my largest fish

 Hi sorry to hear about the the rummynose's,silver sharks despite being herbiveriuos{plant eaters}are quite able {and willing}to take small fishbut the sharks would have to be pretty large to 'fancy' taking a rummynose? How big is your silver shark?

bit late but are you sure thay are not hiding still?

I've never kept rummynoses but my mate does, and he's found that they're a) very shy unless in a larger shoal and b) fragile.  Really fragile.  A few times he's tipped a load of water onto them when doing his water change.  No more than the other fish have received, but they don't seem to like it and don't shift very quick, instead allowing themselves to be driven down where they knock the substrate and generally die within a couple of days.  He's got loads in there now and they're all happy as larry, and he's learnwed to be very careful where he tips his water!  I don't know if this is one of these side-effects of commercial breeding but, like I said, he has found them to be extremely fragile fish.

That's not my expereince at all. Don't know if there are some dodgy batches about?

I have rummies and kept them in shoals of as small as five - no probs. Find them to be fairly hardy (certainly not sensitive) and as for shifting - they whizz round the tank as a shoal - speedy little blighters. They do need swimming space though and tend to suffer in smaller tanks (2&1/2 foot or less) as they need a bit of length to get some speed up.

 there deffo not hiding,and they were ever so small so the silver shark could have easily swallowed them.shame really.the golden algi eaters are doing well though.

 Hi its strange what can happen i once bought ten marble hatchets and they all disapeared over three days never found a dead one and know other fish was big enough to eat'em!

Good to hear the algea eaters doing well!

Als has anyone noticed that the fish look much larger in the shop than when we get them home? Are the tanks in the shops really that small.

 i never thought of it that way,also my lfs usually have similar sized fish at close proximity to each other,so yeah i guess you wouldn't notice that they look a lot smaller than they do when you get them home

Bluedave:

That's not my expereince at all. Don't know if there are some dodgy batches about?

I have rummies and kept them in shoals of as small as five - no probs. Find them to be fairly hardy (certainly not sensitive) and as for shifting - they whizz round the tank as a shoal - speedy little blighters. They do need swimming space though and tend to suffer in smaller tanks (2&1/2 foot or less) as they need a bit of length to get some speed up.

That's all quite interesting really - Gary (my mate) has bought them over a period of time (ie not all in one batch and he's got quite a few now!) though, granted, all from the same place (a Maidenhead Aquatics) and he's consistently had the same "timid and fragile" experience of them...

toesucker120:

 quite interesting really - Gary (my mate) has bought them over a period of time (ie not all in one batch and he's got quite a few now!) though, granted, all from the same place (a Maidenhead Aquatics) and he's consistently had the same "timid and fragile" experience of them...

???? - don't know then - can only give my expereince

Does he have lots of plants for them to hide in - if they are spooked they shoot into the plants to hide. Or conversely does he have something that spooks them -some big fish? How bigs his tank? 

 They are sensitive to high nitrates - how's his nitrate levels, or high pH - my expereince is that they don't do well in hard, alkaline water.

??

380 litre tank, heavily planted, RO water only.  I don't know what his readings are but I'd imagine they're pretty good to be honest, he loves his fish!!!

 Sounds like the perfect tank for them!