I lost a crab in a 10 gallon tank a couple of years ago. It was a fairly big medium sized crab and I never smelled the death smell. I waited almost a year before digging and all I ever found was a piece of exo from the big claw and the shell.
It never smelled at all.
Should i dig?
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