Do you think something ate my shrimp?
- Thread starter Zenz
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So I did not see them at all yesterday. I sat and watched my tank (while surfing on my lap top too) for hours last night and I still I did not see them. I looked all around, used my net to move some plants around to see if they would swim out. Then I saw two white strands floating in the water and at first I actually wondered if they were strands of my dog's hair that maybe were on the net when it fell on the carpet, and then the more tired I got, the more I started to wonder if they were shrimp antennae! I imagined that the blue rams had eaten the shrimp but spit out the antennae and they were the strands I saw. I also wondered if they were loose roots since these strands looked exactly like some of the roots from a few of the plants but how would they come loose (although I did cut down some plants earlier that day).
Today I looked at the tank every chance I got...while talking on the phone, instead of watching tv, while reading bedtime stories :lol: . Finally! I saw what looked like a teeny dead leaf land right in the front of the tank on the substrate. I almost didn't look but I got closer and it was a shrimp!!! So I then watched the blue rams come over and once again surround it and then the female went after it and the shrimp jumped to the rock, blue ram went after it again and the shrimp flew away to a cluster of plants.
I was so excited to see it! they are definitely not full grown, this shrimp was pretty little...the size of my drwarf cory or smaller. Then I studied the leaves and I saw another one! That one is bigger. He was upside down on one of the plants. I watched them eat for a bit and never saw the third but seeing two of them gives me hope for them all...but watching the blue rams surrounding and going after them twice now does concern me.
I never expected to love these little guys like I do. I think they are so adorable and fun to watch. I feel like I need a whole tank full of them! Do they add much to the bio load?
Today I looked at the tank every chance I got...while talking on the phone, instead of watching tv, while reading bedtime stories :lol: . Finally! I saw what looked like a teeny dead leaf land right in the front of the tank on the substrate. I almost didn't look but I got closer and it was a shrimp!!! So I then watched the blue rams come over and once again surround it and then the female went after it and the shrimp jumped to the rock, blue ram went after it again and the shrimp flew away to a cluster of plants.
I was so excited to see it! they are definitely not full grown, this shrimp was pretty little...the size of my drwarf cory or smaller. Then I studied the leaves and I saw another one! That one is bigger. He was upside down on one of the plants. I watched them eat for a bit and never saw the third but seeing two of them gives me hope for them all...but watching the blue rams surrounding and going after them twice now does concern me.
I never expected to love these little guys like I do. I think they are so adorable and fun to watch. I feel like I need a whole tank full of them! Do they add much to the bio load?
My shrimps were also great at escaping from the tank... Is your lid tight or are there spaces? I had 12 ghost shrimps and eventually I ended up with none - either eaten or escaped.
