[AquaticLife] new and I have a question
Tina,
Have you checked the floor around the aquarium for what is now, to be sure, a petrified fish? The fish may have jumped and managed to find a hole large enough to pass through and ended up on the floor. If you have any fur faced creatures of the feline persuasion, I’d not rule them out either, though none of mine has ever bothered a fish. Else, as Lenny has mentioned, he may have died and been eaten by others in the tank.
You really need to sit yourself down with some of the literature and have a good read before you proceed any further. You have also found a good resource in this list, but be wary of the information you may find in places on the web. Not every site give reliable information, and to a novice aquarium keeper, bad information is very hard to sniff out. Earlier this week there was a hart thread on recommended books, which you might want to look up by a search or going through the posts from the last week or so. My recommendation to you is the Baensch Aquarium Atlas, Volume 1. It has a brief section on setting up a tank, a small section on plants, and more than enough pictures of fish, along with their descriptions of size, water parameters, feeding and breeding, and temperament to keep you going for quite some time. I believe there are no w5 freshwater volumes available in English now, but the first will be all you need for some time to come.
That little pink roundish guy may be a kissing gourami, which will have no right to be in that tank after a short period, as they can get quite large. However, based on your description, my guess may be wrong, but that is what first came to mind. It is important that you know what fish you are keeping so that you can know their habits, and what may be best for them.
Your tank may look pristine, but it is really the water quality, something you cannot see that counts. And, as Lenny ha said, nothing is better than having your own test kits to test the water with.
\Steve//
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