Assassins vs. Ghost Shrimp.

Ghost Shrimp has been known to eat smaller snails like pond/ramshorns. But ghosts are shrimp and usually just curious to whatever drops in the tank and immediate picks/cleans it. The assassins should be fine with a tank of ghost shimp in my opinion.

I fed my ghost shrimp to a Convict because it was eating my pond and ramshorn snails. He was shoving that claw right into'em.

i have used the ghost shrimp from wally world to get rid of all of the pond snails in my 30hex. i read an article that explained that some of the breeds of freshwater shrimp sold as "ghost-shrimp" are small macrobrachium(sp?) species which are moluscavores (sp?). i bought a dozen from wally world, dumped them into the tank, and after a coupla weeks, no more pond snails.

I have ghost shrimp- and no they're not the macro juvies that Walmart sometimes sells- these are genuine Palaemontes (sp?)grass shrimp .

I don't have any snail (other than MTS or Quilted Mels that they seem to ignore) under about 5mm in diameter besides a few that I keep finding in the HOB. The ghosts will eat any snail small enough- quite vicious watching them- they pluck them up- reach into the shell for bits of meat- then roll the snail round and round and round with their legs and then pluck more meat... roll again- pluck again.

Some people have palaemontes that don't eat snails... don't know why some do and some don't.

They will also eat the eggs of the snails- and outcompete the snails in terms of gathering food... so long term- with shrimp you'll have fewer snails.


I don't know how big your assassins were- but if they were bigger than 5mm diameter they're probably too big for your ghosts unless you were sold Macros instead of Palaemontes by mistake.

Sometimes wild-type Neocaridina shrimp are also sold as ghost shrimp... they won't eat snails and are quite a bit smaller.



Oh, and assassins on very rare occasions have been known to catch and eat healthy shrimp.