My Neon goby is MIA in my saltwater nano... His name was Nike and I wubbed him.
I'm pretty upset...
But, it is an open top tank.... but no fishie cookies... so, who knows.

Sorry to hear that! Those darn aliens! I just hope the aliens know the difference between fw and sw fish! I mean if they returned them but got your's and Bella's mixed up that wouldn't be so good for your goby and Bella's bettas! This alien abduction thing is getting to be a problem! I had 2 panda corys disappear last week! Have they shown up at any of your houses? I'll watch for any gobys named Nike.

(Seriously tho, I am sorry to hear he's missing. I hear they have big personalities and would be easy to get attached to. :hug: )

Sorry about your fish. could he be stuck in a tank ornament or the filter intake? or could mr or ms cat have gotten him? I remember reading on the goldfish site I belong to that one of the people on there kept coming home to her cat eating the fish. It got to where it could put it's paw down the small opening in the back of the tank

The cat is a theory... see my pic??
She's murdered 2 bettas. and her paws smelled like SW earlier in the week.
But... neon gobies are FAST.

Another theory is that he jumped and the cat ate the fishy cookie.
I've looked throughout the HOB that is converted to a sump/ refugium.
And I don't see a bright blue streak anywhere in the tank.
When I say bright blue. I mean... NEON BLUE.

I'm more upset about this disappearance than the death of Aristotle. Probably bc I have known for months about Aristotle inevitable passing.
Plus... this is a much more expensive fish.

Sorry about your disappearance. It really bothers me when fish go missing, it is like there is no closure, and you wonder what happened.
Worse than a death, because you don't know how it happened, so you don't know how to prevent it from happening again.

When fish disappear from a closed top tank it really drives me nuts. I had a group of 5 dwarf corys. Well one died when he got stuck on the filter(oops) and the other 2 just vanished from a marineland eclipse 5 tank. They live with a pair of guppies.

I thought I had a girl get alien-knapped a week or two ago. I did my water change, filled the floor tank, filling the wall water resevoir, and was looking through everyone, just at a glance, to see how every one was. And there was one of my girls missing, and I'm just stanging there going what the... I thought she might have leaped out of the hole punch sized hole on the top, but she wasn't in any of the usual places where they jump when they are still small enough to fit (I'm amased she still was able to).

Well, she ended up jumping and going between the floor tank and the barracks, onto a cement floor. A 3+ foot jump. I couldn't really reach her, and by the time I got her back into her cup, she was still alive, but couldn't swim, I think I might have pinched her a little too hard trying to get her (I was trying to pinch her fins, but the tips of my fingers barely reached her as it was, and she kept jumping out of my fingers I just wanted to get her into water and wet again). I lowered the water to 1/2 an inch and put a java fern leaf in there and set her on it so it kept her up to the top.

Well, she is now healthy, happy, and I don't know HOW she survived but she did....

Sorry to hear about the goby. They are awesome fish... and saltwater. *drools*

I hate it when you find a betta that is almost to the point of becoming a dorito but is somehow still alive. The sad thing is most of them don't make it. And you think to yourself... "If only I had found him/her 5 minutes earlier, would they have made it?" Ah well, just another one of the joys of fish keeping. :blink: