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.
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?
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My 2 ft tank
Flora: Anubias barteri var Nana, var "Gold" and "mini", Crypto Wendtii, C.parva, Marsilea Hirsuta, Flame Moss, Hygrophila Polysperma, H.Violacea & H.Corymbosa, US Fissiden
Fauna: Guppy, Pelvicachromis Pulcher, Nannacara Anomala, Laetacara Araguaiae 'Buckelkopf'
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.
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i just removed them and flushed them down the toilet bowl... :P
no water change. just monitor and try to find out why.
Find out the reason for the death haha ! So for me its the flush and monitor technique as well haha !
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.
what contamination are you talking about? in any case, 50% is a lot of wc to do.. might stress fish even further.
Depending on the fish size/tank ratio, also importantly how long the fish was dead
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.
A Liverpool Fan In Singapore
My 2 ft tank
Flora: Anubias barteri var Nana, var "Gold" and "mini", Crypto Wendtii, C.parva, Marsilea Hirsuta, Flame Moss, Hygrophila Polysperma, H.Violacea & H.Corymbosa, US Fissiden
Fauna: Guppy, Pelvicachromis Pulcher, Nannacara Anomala, Laetacara Araguaiae 'Buckelkopf'
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.
say a prayer for them and flush down the toilet bowl....$$$ down also
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?
A Liverpool Fan In Singapore
My 2 ft tank
Flora: Anubias barteri var Nana, var "Gold" and "mini", Crypto Wendtii, C.parva, Marsilea Hirsuta, Flame Moss, Hygrophila Polysperma, H.Violacea & H.Corymbosa, US Fissiden
Fauna: Guppy, Pelvicachromis Pulcher, Nannacara Anomala, Laetacara Araguaiae 'Buckelkopf'
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.
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Ya. My yamato shrimps, and especially the nerite snails are eating the dead bodies.
i have two tanks and the dead are fed to my blue lobster
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.
feed my tarapin...
Do ware change and add 0.2% salt
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