Do you think something ate my shrimp?

Zenz

Zenz

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I got 3 cute amano shrimp yesterday. I saw them a few times throughout the day and last night before bed. I also saw one of them have a showdown with my blue rams, feeling her face and then flitting away all the way to a top leaf in a blink of an eye. This morning, I can't see any of them. :(

I have 2 blue rams, 2 dwarf gourami, cardinal tetras, pleco, dwarf cory cats, mystery snails, red arc pencilfish, and a male guppy.

Tank is 29 gallons medium/heavy planted.

What do you think?
 
maybe the gouramis or the rams? how big were the shrimps?
 
I'd put my money on the rams ;)
 
Or hiding somewhere.
 
I'd say the rams as they can go crazy (in my experience), if something pokes them the wrong way.
 
Do you have driftwood in your tank?

Both my Amano & Ghost shrimp LOVE hiding out in my driftwood
My rams have never touched any of my shrimp
 
Most likely Hiding.

I have Ghost shrimps with my Rams and they don't care, They even feed together.

Shrimps can get away really fast they have spidey senses. :lol:
 
I do have driftwood. I have two pieces. I looked all around on the wood but of course there are areas that I can't see. I hope they are just hiding and glad to hear that rams usually get along ok with them. The rams are kind of king and queen of the tank but they have not been aggressive in the tank. They will chase each other sometimes and will sometimes push the gouramis away.

I see the gourami play with each other but they are not curious about everything in the tank like the blue rams.

I will keep hoping that they are just hiding. I watched them on the leaves at the top of the tank last night and the little shrimp just looked so happy and eating away.

They aren't teeny tiny either. They are bigger than the dwarf cory cats for sure.
 
I had 2 for a while (before they did get eaten, my mistake) but they hid quite often. I read they are most likely to come out more when kept in larger groups. I only saw mine at feeding time, they'd come out long enough to snatch some flakes.
 
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