Missing Apistogramma cacatuoides!

[Don90]

As above! My female Ap. cactuoides orange flash has been missing since wednesday!

I checked the floor, but still couldn't find it! checked underneath the DW and all caves but still nowhere to be found!

I really wonder where it could be hiding....

Could it be eaten up by the other tank mates?

tankmates include : 4 cardinal tetras, 2 zebra otos, 1 red lizard catfish, 1 oto, 1 male Ap cacatuoides orange flash.

[illumnae]

did you try checking the floor/area around the tank? she may have jumped.

alternatively, she may have found a hidden corner where she laid eggs and is zealously guarding them. i once had a female apisto that dug a hole under my moss foreground mesh and laid eggs there. i thought i lost her, but later when i lifted the moss mesh as a last resort (the tank's rather bare you see so there's not much other places to search) she darted out and i saw eggs under the mesh.

thankfully i didn't lose that batch of eggs as she went back to guarding them after i placed the mesh back

[DCguy]

My guess is that she is sitting on eggs/fry and you will soon see her leading her fry around the tank.

DC