Where's The Fish Gone?

[sherrardk]

Boy #2 added a Siamese Fighting fish to his collects yesterday but today one of his snakeskin guppies (an adult) is missing - is it possible that the fighting fish has eaten it?

[chrisgel]

Male Bettas should not be kept with other fish that have similar body types and long fins, as they could mistake them for rivals.

From
http://freshaquarium.about.com/cs/anabantids2/p/betta.htm

[sherrardk]

We've got another fighting fish in the other tank but it hasn't eaten anything, not even the baby Molly fish that it was specifically bought to eat.

[pixie373]

We always had a male Siamese fighting fish (or two females) in our tank. They never attacked any other fish- we were only told not to keep two male fighting fish together.

[sherrardk]

We've only got one fighting fish in each tank. Girl's fish is a bit mental - it pretends to be ill, or sleeping or dead and then chases after the other red fish. Can't work out where the missing fish from boy #2's tank has gone, but it's not there any more.

[Tilly2]

When I saw the title, I was going to suggest that a heron had taken it. Clicking on the post has shown me that I would be wrong.

[humbersloop]

sherr, unless the guppie has a set of house keys and the taxi fare home, this may not have ended well

[boxtops]

Yes absolutely - male Siameses will eat anything, I remember it well.

[sherrardk]

The boy is not upset about it, more interested than anything, but if any more go MIA then the fighting fish will have to go back (he has two 'expensive' dwarf chain loaches - £11 each!!).

[boxtops]

Well - personally I'd net it, if you have a holding tank - they're not called fighting fishes for nothing.

[sherrardk]

They only fight other fighting fish, the other one in the other tank is hopeless.

[boxtops]

is the other one a bloke, though?

[B00]

" is it possible that the fighting fish has eaten it? "

Yes, without a doubt.

[boxtops]

They don't only fight other fighting fish, sher, they fight anything. I know, we used to keep them.

[B00]

Yeah me too Boxy, why I always kept them i a separate tank on their own.

[boxtops]

... and only one bloke per tank, too!

[B00]

Yeah, i only ever had one at a time anyway, not enough tanks :-)

[boxtops]

We had 14 at one time, B00 - the ex was a fish fanatic....

[boxtops]

^ 14 tanks that is, not 14 fish ;-)

[hammerman]

Siamese fighters all have individual personalities. I have 3 males in a partitioned tank....two of them are very placid and seem frightened of their own reflection whilst the other one is an utter thug and even attacks the filter.

It's perfectly possible for an aggressive male to attack and kill a guppy....ive seen it happen in one of my tanks.