ok everyone stop what you are doing I only have four fish

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I am not really here okay

but dd had five fish and now there are only four

they are tiny zebra something or others but there are deffo only four of them no floaters and I have peered hard into the gravel can see none lying down

is it possible for a fish to disappear?

I am not good with death NB I am alone do not scare me

it has a lid on Fish 5 can't have flipped out

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Cannibal fish?

Bigger fish ate it.
Saw that on another thread coup[le of fdays ago.

Is one a pirannha?

cross posts JV.

no good god no they can't have eaten it

dd has been feeding them their damn flakes

anyway they are all tiny

Cod - you're proper into roleplay today

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if they had eaten it would there be - boak - remains?

what on earth do I tell dd? "your fish are eating each other"

How can I tell her not to pull her sister's top again after that display of animal behaviour?

oh CHRIST

I thought fish were safe

we have avoided pets for years on grounds of dh's asthma

we hate animals but she begged and pleaded so

I hate dead animals the very thought of them, I have always told dh if he dies I can do without the sex, the housework, the gardening, the conversation, but I'll have to pay a man to come and check the lawn for bird/mouse/frog corpses every morning before I put the washing out

oh god oh god oh god oh god

fio are you listening

no cats

oh god no they are evil little fecks

also they die, but in a larger and furry way

I hate pets

in fact it took a while to reread this thread becasue Pets was one of my ignored threads

good good they are eating one another in my own home

Had trouble with a sucking loach recently helping itself to big chunks of DD's goldfish. Truly horrible. But I must admit the bodies didn't disappear - wish they had 'cos it was most unpleasant retreiving the little corpses.

I will never view fish in the same light again!

I have just rung dh he said it is 'quite amusing'

is this because we forgot to feed them the other night?

do I have to blame myself?

the woman in the shop said it was ok to miss a night now and again

Noo. You should miss a night regularly. Most fish suffer from over-feeding.

I bet they do if they are eating each other

oh I am quite distressed by the whole thing. Why isn't there any bloody whisky in the house?

Yes 'cos then you could put some whisky in the tank. That might mellow them out. Alternatively it might make them punchy.

don't panic when we've had one missing it usually turns up (albeit dead) in the middle of the foliage. Not much help really

got no foliage

minimalist (ie too small and cheap) fishtank

there is nowhere for it to hide

Definately eaten.

My brother had some fish a couple of years ago. He swore blind that every morning the big brown one went missing and reappeared that evening. Like it was going out to work or something.