So, first and foremost, I know killies are jumpers and the tank has a lid that fits tightly and a water level a couple inches below the lid. That said - I keep literally losing clown killies. I'm not finding them on the table or floor, and I've moved everything and looked, and I cannot find any. I really don't think they're jumping. The filter is a sponge filter, so they're not going in there. I have never seen a carcass, though they're small enough I guess the snails or their fellow killies might be eating them quickly. But what the heck? I had 6, all fat and sassy and eating well. One male is larger and more brightly colored, and will sometimes run the others off, but I put food in 6 different spots to try to ensure everyone eats. Slowly they've just vanished without a trace. Last week I was down to the big male, a slightly smaller male, and a female... and this week the female is gone. I don't want to replace them unless I can figure out what is going on. I even had fry at one point who got up to about the size of a grain of rice and could be seen eating well. Mostly they eat vinegar eels supplemented with "fry crack"
Water should be good; room temp (between 70-73F), TDS around 250, pH 6.6-6.8, kH is about 40ppm, gH about 300ppm, no chlorine. 0/0/trace ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. Anubias, java fern, a nice cover of dwarf water lettuce with trailing roots for them to hang out in. I've got 6 other tanks/ponds and this isn't happening in any of the others so I don't think I'm like, inadvertently poisoning them with residues or my aged tap water (also treated with Prime).