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About one month ago in the 5ft tank I lost 6 Yoyo loaches all perfectly healthy up till a water change, about the same time in the 45lt 2 banded khuli and one Otto disappeared. I put this down to some thing in the water supply.

A few days ago the Khuli loaches appeared and today just after the weekly water change the Otto was happy cleaning the glass.

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Makes you wonder where they went, doesn't it?

The same thing happened to me except it was a guppy who went missing for a fortnight and reappeared amongst the other fish at feeding time like it had been there all along. I searched for an hour or so for him, the tank was at that time non-planted.. so it just had water, gravel, ornaments and the fish.

Another time my BN disappeared for a week.. and reappeared. I can remember how surprised I was when I saw him (he was only a inch and half long or so) scooting along the floor looking for food. I actually thought he was dead, cos I had pulled up all the ornaments out of the tank and he wasn't in the tank.. so either he was hiding in the tank somewhere I couldn't find him or he was attached to one of the ornaments.

It is nice when they reappear healthy and normal! Especially cos their absence are supposed to mean they're dead & had been eaten by the other fish.

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In my 55G planted tank I have two skunk loaches and a rainbow shark that I see every two weeks at most. Every once in a while I might be able to find them hiding in the base of the drift wood or around rocks but not very often. The shark is at least 5" long so he is quite impressive at hiding.

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Sorry to hear about your Yoyo Loaches. I had one years ago that survived an accidental bleaching (yes, bleach as in clorox)!

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I think I hold the record for a missing invertebrate. Last year I had a wood shrimp go missing for 3 and a half months before he suddenly appeared one night at feeding time. It was bizarre.

during winter i only saw my tandanus catfish in my pond once a month (3 times). now i see it almost every day. i bought a sooty grunter last week and put it in my pond, but i haven't seen it since letting it out of the bag.

sometimes i don't see my khuli loaches in my guppy tank for months at a time. but the funny thing is, since one of them died (only one left now), it appears alot more often. its over 5 years old now (probably why the other one died, old age).

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sorry to hear about the yo-yos, by far my favorite fish. But I do go for weeks at a time without seeing my ottos, they just don't come out when anyone's around. They move pretty quick too, when they see ya.

i had a LARGE bn go missing,i searched for him for like over a week,i honestly thought he was dead,being such a pig,it was weird that he was missing dinner!i ended up finding him gaurding a batch of eggs,rite up in the very front end of my pirate ship!i would think its easy for em to vanish,even more so for bottom feeders/catfish,living in the tank 24/7,they get to know it with there eyes closed...