what is the grey cocoon that incases a dead fish, if it does not get eaten by others in the tank...

[Magnum Man]

I assume I'm not the only one, who has lost a fish, that crawled into a tight spot to die, and didn't get found right away, and if you don't have a large population of pest snails, or other inhabitants that actively eat dead fish, you find it a week later, incased in a grey cocoon... I'm assuming that is a bacteria??? which doesn't seem to effect live fish, or cloud your water... it seems to be part of a naturally cycled aquarium, as part of the "clean up crew" thoughts???

if I see one, I net it out to the trash, butI'm sure there are lots of smaller fish, that never get found...

 

[AJ356]

Maybe this?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Maybe this?

If that's the gray gunk that Magnum is asking about...It ain't working.

 

[Colin_T]

Grey fluffy stuff on dead fish is fungus
White fluffy stuff on fish is a different type of fungus (Saprolegnia). The grey stuff might also be Saprolegnia but could be a different species or genus.

 

[FranciscoB]

Fungus alright. Don’t let it happen (if possible). Have to account for missing fish sooner.

 

[MattW]

My oldest male Sawbwa which died recently, had its rib cage exposed and part of its tail gone by the time I saw it (3 hours after I saw it alive). Amano shrimp don't wait around I don't think it's possible in a tank with amanos for a fish to become a cocoon of fungus.

 

[MaloK]

I seen shrimps following the older ones that where about to die.

To be the first at the buffet.

Creepy...

 

[fishorama]

For me, by the time I see a funky fungus or bacteria fish body the tank often stinks of dead fish smell. I don't have shrimp, but some fish snack on dead 1s...often with no stink. I try to remove dead animals but they can be hard to find sometimes.

 

[GaryE]

"Haunted by Shrimp" is a popular horror film in the world of fish. You need to stream it. Net flix.

 

[Uberhoust]

"Haunted by Shrimp" is a popular horror film in the world of fish. You need to stream it. Net flix.

Looked it up but doesn't exist, then I realized it was a joke. Errrr.

 

[Jinx_]

"Haunted by Shrimp" is a popular horror film in the world of fish. You need to stream it. Net flix.

I think Netflix in fish world would be Netfins or something like this

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I'd go see it.

 

[Uberhoust]

Haunted by Shrimp

Yea I would too. I envisioned some campy horror movie like something out of the 1960s, atomically modified shrimp that take over some isolated coastal town

 

[MaloK]

I worry when a fly follows me... I seen flies eat a horse in 3 days.

 

[Boundava]

My oldest male Sawbwa which died recently, had its rib cage exposed and part of its tail gone by the time I saw it (3 hours after I saw it alive). Amano shrimp don't wait around I don't think it's possible in a tank with amanos for a fish to become a cocoon of fungus.

Plecos are so good at eating dead fish that you don't even know that they're gone until you are looking for the dead fish. Even then you're not going to find the body the fish is just going to be missing and you're going to assume that it's dead and eaten.