# When do leeches disappear?

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**Created:** [July 30, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644 "2024-07-30T20:10:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![possopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@possopo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/possopo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:10pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644/1 "2024-07-30T20:10:45Z")

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hi everyone,

as I understand it, a note receives a leech tag after 8 wrong answers (and you can change that number in the options but that’s off-topic). but does the tag ever disappear when you start getting good answers repeatedly ?  
or is stuck on the poor note forever like a bad tattoo (and god knows how bad tattoos proliferated in recent years) ?

thank you !

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**Author:** ![Danika\_Dakika](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/danika_dakika/32/17815_2.png) [@Danika\_Dakika](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/Danika_Dakika)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644/2 "2024-07-30T20:39:07Z")

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You can remove that tag whenever you want. After you’ve taken care of the issue on the note/cards that is causing the excessive lapses – that’s is a good time to remove it.

The tag will be re-applied to the note if the same card again hits the “half”-threshold of additional lapses, or if another card on that note hits the threshold. [Leeches - Anki Manual](https://docs.ankiweb.net/leeches.html)

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**Author:** ![possopo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/59ef9b/32.png) [@possopo](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/possopo)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644/3 "2024-07-30T21:56:31Z")

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thanks. so the system never removes the tag on its own ? not even after you reviewed the card eight times successfully ?and you need to decide whether you want to keep the tag or not ?

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**Author:** ![sorata](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/forums.ankiweb.net/sorata/32/34115_2.png) [@sorata](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/sorata)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2024, 2:12am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644/4 "2024-07-31T02:12:31Z")

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You are correct. Anki doesn’t remove the tag from the note by itself.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/anki2/original/1X/8f1279ababc5879d54e4838989f606cfe55af8c7.jpeg) [@system](https://forums.ankiweb.net/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2024, 2:13am UTC](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/when-do-leeches-disappear/47644/5 "2024-08-30T02:13:12Z")

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