Shrimps & Snails Eating Dead/dying Fish?

The main problem I have with nerites is that I only usually see them when they are climbing up the front glass, which is not exactly their most attractive side.

Starting a new thread with a quote from another - hope this works.

The other issue that puts me off keeping snails and shrimps is that I've read that they often make short work of a dying/dead fish - is this true in people's experiences? [When my pets/fish die, I tend to have quite a ceremonial send-off process for them which wouldn't be possible if this were true, so would be grateful to know of people's experiences before deciding whether or not to even consider them as a potential addition to the tank.]

In my tanks shrimps do a better job of 'recycling' than nerite snails - which don't seem to touch anything including algae wafers, courgette, blanched lettuce etc. If a fish dies in the 50 litre I usually notice it because of the shrimps standing on top of each other to get a share.

Other snails might be different. I have never had assassin snails so I don't know if they would eat a dead fish or not.

Fish will also eat dead fish. It's not just shrimps or snails.

I have certainly witnessed both shrimps and fish "cleaning up" in tanks at the local Pets at Home.
I know it's all part of nature, but I found it slightly disturbing as well.

WTF?!? 
That's awful. 
Even if he was going to do that it shouldn't have been done in front of customers.
I don't blame you not going back there.

It usually means 'What the f***'

Well, goodness me............honestly? ............no, it can't be........."flipping- heck" doesn't fit ...........?

                                    Skittler

PS I only wish I could post Smileys !!

My tanks are so dense with plants and wood that if  a fish dies it is likely to be somewhere hidden and I may not notice, when you have 10 or more small identical fish in a shoal it can be difficult to even count how many there are as they mill around. So it's better to have something clean up the body than have it decay and produce ammonia. That's nature, it's not pretty.
Nerite snails do appear to be almost entirely algae eaters but most others will eat meat if they can get it.

It's obviously the way I was brung up 

WTF stands for What The any word you want beginning with F that means the phrase goes with this smiley 

 

Putting my moderators hat on, I will say that as far as I'm concerned it is fine using acronyms as someone too innocent to know what it means can't be offended. It is using the actual word that is not allowed.

Discus in a piranha tank in front of customers, accompanied with such a dismissive attitude, absolutely deserves dropping the f-bomb.

I agree.

Well Ladies,

I've only just stopped laughing from your recent posts. Hilarious. Having started my working life as a student apprentice in an engineering dept., this young, naïve, good Christian boy, soon realised that he needed to speak a different language, in order not to have the urine extracted mercilessly. So, I am qualified.

I am afraid that last night I took myself off to the Unicorn across the road, for their excellent Wednesday carvery (£5.95), and spent the "savings" on another (very) large glass of shiraz.......and when I'm under the affluence of incohol the fingers are out of control. Thinking about it..........that's how I ended up rushing to the altar as well! (Emoticon of one smiley beating the brains out of another!)

                                                Skittler

PS Sue, just seen your last posts. Could we have a photo your "Moderator's Hat" please?