Six line dead?

My six line came out yesterday morning and i left for a few hours, then I never saw him for the rest of the day, and I still havnt seen him today..The tank is enclose so he couldnt have jumped out, i have no sump. The tank is a 29g biocube.

Im worried because if he is dead, then wouldnt that be a pretty bad thing in a 29g? im going to get water and stuff today at LFS but im a lil worried about him.

 

are your daylights already on?

IME - when the lights are not on - the sixline is likely snug as a bug in its made-nightly mucus cocoon.

 

I would give it more time. If you have a clean up crew I would not worry too much about it. Smaller fish deaths are usually handled by the biological filter and the clean up crew without a significant noticeable decline in water conditions.

 

Okay, and yes..the daylights are on..they have been for atleast 3-4 hours now..I have not seen him yet.

I have like 6-8 hermits and some nassaiurus snails and nerite snails.

 

i had a buddy that had a six line die and he thinks that it ran out of pods..

 

Six lines eat pods only? I have had two and the other one was a lil bigger but it lived for like 5 months before i removed it and it ate flake and mysis.

 

No they eat fish food as well.

 

OH okay..

Well..Just so you guys now, when i was doing a WC yesterday, he came out..He is happy and doing fine.

 

thats good and also they eat bristle worms and pyramid snails as welll as pods. i never couold consitantly get mine to eat pellets though. never tried any other prepared foods

 

my six line eats every thing did he get sucked in the back of the cube?