AAAHHH! KILLER GHOST SHRIMP!!!

I've witnessed my berried ghost shrimp pulling out her own eggs and crushing them, at least that's what it looked like she was doing..very strange.
 
there are about a million type of shrimp that get sold as "ghost shrimp." Some can be very aggressive. As scavengers, there's little they do in terms of finding a meal of opportunity that would surprise me.
 
I have heard accounts of this, but I didn't keep ghost shrimp with red cherries, so I didn't experience it firsthand.

I'd reccomend taking the ghost shrimp out and putting them in a new home. On a side note, the GSP would love them...
 
Oh yeah, I thought my GSP's were wimps because they always seemed to turn their noses up at the sight of a ghost shrimp. That is, until I decided to buy a bunch of berried female ghost shrimp in there for an experiment to see if their larvae would have a higher survival rate in the brackish water...They enjoyed every single morsel of my experiment,lol. The ghost shrimp in the red cherry tank were the offspring of the berried ghost shrimp for my freshwater part of the experiment.(that I had put in the red cherry tank, and removed when they were no longer berried) I had a better turnout of baby ghost shrimp in the freshwater.
 
I caught one of mine eating a platy fry that was hanging out on the bottom of the tank (where platy fry usually are).

My GSP ignores my ghost shrimp as well.
 
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