African Filter Shrimp

we'll see.....

I've had the shrimp for a full 3 months. This is the first molt. The shrimp is in a crevice under some slate. The clowns cant get to it.....but some of my smaller fish probably could. I've seen the shrimp defend their personal space by poking fish with their front legs....even poked at my big 8 inch clown. The fish seem pretty uninterested. My tank is 125g with a lot of bogwood and rocks. Plants consist of crypts, anubias, java ferns, and java moss. Since i've had my shrimp the stay in a pretty small area of rock and wood dominated by a big java fern that grows on the base of a stump by the substrate.
 
They should be okay, it takes them a day or two to get active again after a molt. When they have a space in the tank they like they tend to stay there. I do feed mine a bit of crushed flake sometimes, I put it on a tweezers squash it a bit and let if float into the fans. Your tank is quite big so I guess as long as you see them pooing regularly then they are fine.
Good pics of them too.
 
This is some information for people not familiar with filter feeding shrimp. The easy way to tell if your filter feeders are getting enough food, watch for scavenging. They will take their fans and scrape them against rocks/glass or what ever, instead of holding them open in the water, there may be a problem. If you see this behavior once in a while it's not necessarily bad. Some just like to. But if they habitually do this, or if all of your filter feeding shrimp do it, then they may need supplemental feeding, or even more importantly, higher volume of water stirred in the tank.
 
Molted!

The smaller of my 2 vampire shrimp or african filter shrimp or what ever you want to call it....molted. I will try to post some pics, but he is still recovering.
 
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