What would you do after you have netted the dead fishs/shrimps?

[Aquanoob]

Normally, after I have netted out the dead fish(es), I will immediately do a 50% water-change in case there are any contamination in the water. Do the members here also do the same thing?

[eviltrain]

sometime have to depend on the natural of death. if old age nothing can be done, if you change the water in such a great amount, you might even stress the rest of the fishes/shrimps more.

[Jimmy]

i just removed them and flushed them down the toilet bowl... :P

no water change. just monitor and try to find out why.

[AsNiDmY]

Find out the reason for the death haha ! So for me its the flush and monitor technique as well haha !

[Holy_Dee]

If they are new comers,I wont mind it as they just cant adapt to the new environment. If it happens to a stable tank and last for a few days,I will check what's going wrong.

[rainman]

what contamination are you talking about? in any case, 50% is a lot of wc to do.. might stress fish even further.

[Shaihulud]

Depending on the fish size/tank ratio, also importantly how long the fish was dead

[Aquanoob]

Just wondering for those heavily planted tank, and let say a tetra or guppy died naturally, is it possible to notice its sunken body in the greens. Or even noticing that one fish is missing.

[ranmasatome]

Sometimes i don't even know where my fish went..they just do disappearing act. If i find any dead ones, i put them in my potted plants so they give back to the plants... might as well not waste.

[hoverfish]

say a prayer for them and flush down the toilet bowl....$$$ down also

[Aquanoob]

That is why I am wondering, for example, a 4-ft tank with 50-100 tetras, if 5 of them suddenly died and their body sink into the heavily planted greens, how can you notice their disappearance? I think you can't count how many you have or left as they always school together.
And talking about the dead bodies, I think they will contaminate the water
and we don't have enough scavengers to consume the bodies, am I right to say that?

Sometimes i don't even know where my fish went..they just do disappearing act. If i find any dead ones, i put them in my potted plants so they give back to the plants... might as well not waste.

[BFG]

If you have yamato shrimps, they would take care of this service for free. The bone will be left clean and that will breakdown naturally. I wouldn't worry about this if the tank has scavengers especially in a large tank, say a 4ft. In a tank 2ft or less and without scavenger, remove as soon as possible.

[Tamama]

Ya. My yamato shrimps, and especially the nerite snails are eating the dead bodies.

[veryboring]

i have two tanks and the dead are fed to my blue lobster

[Jungle-mania]

I recommend looking at them with a magnifying glass and see if you see any symptoms that might alert you of a disease. You can take a picture and discuss it on AQ, talk to the gurus and check the library for books on fish diseases, this is where the hobby takes a serious turn.

Also look into the tank for oddity and I won't rush with the water change, but I normally do a quick 20% water change siphoning near the water from the bottom and add an air stone to aerate the water for a week just in case the water has turn anaerobic. I don't normally bother with medication unless the signs are obvious to me.

[reagan022]

feed my tarapin...

[Crusaders]

Do ware change and add 0.2% salt