joe

1 of my platies died like 3 weeks ago when i was at a camp and my mom didnt get it out. I looked for it the next day and it wasnt there. Where could it have gone? Is it bad to never find a dead fish?

Gunnie

It could have been eaten by your other fish. that's not uncommon.

FishFan

Miss Mouse

Sorry to hear that Joe but dont worry - the others probably had a good meal

Jason

That snail-gut thing is pretty disgusting

Adz

The same thing happend to me a few weeks ago, I couldnt find it anywhere

fletch

I had a large sword tail and a large cory in my tank. They both died in the same week and the first I knew of it was an awfull smell and cludy water. I looked for ages for any remains but couldnt find any. I couldnt get rid of the cloudiness so I cleaned the filter. In the filter was tons of green goo, it definately wasnt algae so I presume it was dissolved fish. gross!!

Adz

That is gross!!

fletch

Put me off curry, beans on toast and anything else remotely wet looking for a while

joe

that is the sickest thing i have ever heard :P

Evan1

Sorry to hear about your fish Joe. The same thing happened to me about a year ago, I had a large Gourami, about 3.5" long, and overnight, literally, he just DISSAPEARED!! No remains, no one said they cleaned up his dead body, Nothing!! Just gone. He also didn't "jump ship" in the middle of the night!! Weirdd!!! :

Evan1

Sorry to hear about your fish Joe. The same thing happened to me about a year ago, I had a large Gourami, about 3.5" long, and overnight, literally, he just DISSAPEARED!! No remains, no one said they cleaned up his dead body, Nothing!! Just gone. He also didn't "jump ship" in the middle of the night!! Weirdd!!! :

AquaGirl

Yes Joe, it was probably eaten by other fish in the tank. When I stop by the pet store, I often happen to see some dead fish in some tanks, floating in the water, and all other fish pecking at it. For some reason fish eat other fish even of the same kind when they see one die. Anyone knows why?

Miss Mouse

Probably a natural instinct to clean the area they live in? Like you would move a dead body out of your house instead of letting it rot? Ugh thats really grim sorry

Adz

ya would'nt eat it tho :P LOL

joe

that is true i wouldnt eat a dead body

Miss Mouse

HAhaha no i definitely wouldn't - but I think most animals would do the same. It's just their instinct to keep their living area clean I guess - at least we can move or bury something icky but I dont think you'd see the fishies shovelling gravel over the body

Durbkat

That happened to me to when I was about 10 years old I had to gold fish in a fish bowl and one of them died and when I came home All I found was the bones of the dead fish then the other goldfish died a few weeks later because the fish he ate was sick.