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would love to, but will probably find that I need another liscence to do that, might put down a few crab pots and find out what they come up with, put them in a 100 g tank and see how much they'll eat, but this sort of research has to stand up in court, so many rules and excepted protocols.

Yea we have all permits as this is for crime research, and pigs are excepted as the best type of analogue for humans. as to effecting the water way it is known that a human corpse can not change the water chemistry at all, wish it could, body finding would be soooo easy. So as I will be using ...

Thanks, gives me some areas to start looking, right now the plan is to drop dead pigs in areas, possibly with a critter cam and watch them feed, the general idea is that crabs and other such scavengers will turn up, but other wise I have many hours of watching a pig decompose.

Every one will be asking what your water paremeters tank size filtration are etc. so be ready, but it might be an idea to look through the archives and see if anyone else has posted a similar question as these may have photo's, which might tell you what your litle guy has.

I'm studying scavenging of decaying remains by all underwater lifeforms, and whilst my research is based in England I'm just looking for stories, texts references, really anything, will fish eat dead people is the general question, and do they do it fast. Possible not the best site, but with the ...

I've also had mucus floating when we moved the clowns, and when two small clowns were in the (heated) goldfish tank they were the only fish the gold fish didn't try to eat, but they did try to eat the Fire Belly Newts that were also in there temporaily, and they do have posion glands.

Tell me about cost, i used to live in Barbados, now in England, still an expensive island, but at least the cruise liners dont clear you out.

Having moved house about a month ago my 90g tank has just got back to normal, except my clowns, even with their dither fish they were not coming out to play.
However my lfs was shutting down, and all fish quarter price, so home came weather loaches x 4. Boseman x 8, kribs x 4 and one lonely little ...