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Under these circumstances, I would leave it alone. If you are unduly worried, add more shrimps.
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Wanna ask a stupid question...
I got this dead pencil in my tank now (who died of malnutrition cause not eating since introduction 2 weeks ago)...
And it is stuck at the back of my tank which is very heavily planted with Java Fern and Nanas and the hardscape... Its eyes are taken off by my Dicrossus already... And some parts of it is probably eaten by them too...
Can I leave it in there? Or create a Hiroshima in my tank by moving the plants?
Under these circumstances, I would leave it alone. If you are unduly worried, add more shrimps.
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Guess I am really unduly worried... Just went to check it... It is gone... Probably dragged to somewhere else by the yamatoes or eaten up...
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i think if it didn't die because of diseases or something, then it'll be fine as fish food...
If it's dead because of disease then it's better to remove it.
if u can reach it, take it out ... else YAMATOES!!!
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If you have yamatoes, there's no need to take it out. Before the gas in the dead fish body accumulate to float the carcass, the yamatoes might already be finish with it. That's what happening in my shrimp tank.
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If you have tiger barbs and bristlenose, also dun need to bother... I always find skeletons before I realise something had died and they would still picking at the skin/bones...
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personally, I'd fish it out if it's within easy reach. It may be a good source of food for scavengers in the tank, but I wouldn't want to risk infecting all the healthy fishes should it die of diseases. Better safe than sorry. Like Justikanz said, I usually find it (or what's left of it) after it's long dead in a heavily planted tank.
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I wouldn't bother too much of it too. I have a 3 footer with about 20+ yamatoes in it, not much fish though. Anything that dies in there will not last more than 1 day. That's how effective that cleaning crew is. Btw, the tank also house pencil fish only abeit only a few of them.
Something about the water & the fishes that calms me down.
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