Dead Fish

[MillionaireMachine]

Need to know...with all the rock set up and stuff...what happens if your fish dies and got hidden in the rocks...quite impossible to move the rocks and stuff...do you just leave it to decompose.....'

another thing...where of how do we service our chillers....do the normal fridge-repairman werk??

[ben]

no matter how u must take them out. no choice. or will later wipe out ur whole tank.

[SpiderOne]

If its a big fish. or its somewhere u can see just take it out. wont hurt. If its a small fish missing somewhere. chances are the body wont be around for the next 2 hours if u have a well established tank. My 3 inch naso ###### died on one of my LR. 10 mins later its gone. found it at the back of the tank in between the LR structure. go out. come home 6 hours later. left half a skeleton.

heres one of the many culprits.

saw my dead fish suddenly moving around in a weird fashion.being totally noob at that time ( as evident by no. 6 coral chip sandbed ) . i was pretty freaked out

[Achilles Tang]

MillionaireMachine,

Hi.. can you be more descriptive in your thread title in future? It won't waste people's time coming in to check out a thread that doesn't reflect the content.

Read this!

Thanks!

AT

[ervine]

I've had fish gone missing before... the bristleworms, crabs, and stuff usually do a VERY VERY quick job of cleaning up the mess...

[Virus]

Sometimes the thought of it shudders me.. like once something dead, all the crabs and stuff come out and drag the corpse to their den and devour it.

There's one time i switch off all lights and then peer into my tank using dim torchlight.. wa.. never knew i got so many crabs and living orgainism active at night one.. a bit scary..

[MillionaireMachine]

yupzzzz....fish got eaten very fast...taste gd maybe...lol...btw does it help to heep these creatures so that they help in the decomposition process....

[nicky30092002]

i retrieve dead corpse of fishes in tight spot (can see though) by using a needle sticked infront of a ballon stick(from MACd). Poke them and bring them out .. thats how i kill the bristle worm oso ...

Thank to bro who started using the brands bottle to catch crabs oso .. now all my snails are safe ..

[MillionaireMachine]

i have one crab in my tank...kinda cute....but are crabs that destructive to other marine life????

[nicky30092002]

the ST*#ID crab kill 5snails in my tank & i saw it tearing fresh from my biggest turbo snails !!!

by the way, what do u guys do with the empty snail shell, throw or juz leave them there ..

[arcanehacker]

i retrieve dead corpse of fishes in tight spot (can see though) by using a needle sticked infront of a ballon stick(from MACd). Poke them and bring them out .. thats how i kill the bristle worm oso ...

Thank to bro who started using the brands bottle to catch crabs oso .. now all my snails are safe ..

I use chopsticks to take out dead bodies too.. .. but might not work in really tight spots..

[lightningstrike]

IMO, if u cannot c the corpses, then juz leave them to decompose....... more likely to be eaten up by other LS. if not, then get more narssarius snails to eat them up as these guys r scavengers.

[blacknails]

yupzzzz....fish got eaten very fast...taste gd maybe...lol...btw does it help to heep these creatures so that they help in the decomposition process....

Ermm.. If I ain't wrong it is beneficial to keep bristle worms in your tank but crabs as a general rule should be removed as they'll hunt small fishes when they grow bigger...