Ghost Shrimp Numbers Decreasing

Riso-chan

Riso-chan

The Blue Girl
Jan 17, 2005
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Lately, I keep finding dead shrimp in my tank. Some have obviously kicked off due to their short life span, others look like they were attacked while molting. I removed all of these the minute I spotted. I do remember someone on this forum telling me the danois would make a meal of them, now I know. This is good for the new ottos I bought a few days ago, bad for me because I'm trying to keep my nitrates low. When I purchased them, some of the shrimp were large, maybe full adults. I guess some of the smaller ones will stick around. However, I'm worried about this causing my nitrates to rise. If I keep removing the dead shrimp, and doing regular water changes will it keep my nitrates down?
 
How long have you had your Shrimp for? I was looking into maybe getting some and I read somewhere that they live for like 2 years or so.
Maybe I'm wrong.
 
I heard they live 1.25 years. Anyway, you say danios eat ghost shrimp? I was planning on getting a school of glofish danios.. will they eat my ghost shrimp?
 
any fish that is big enough to attack and eat something smaller will normally do such like the lfs I frequent big fish eat little fish. Ghost shrimp tend to only life about 2 years at most I buy them as treats for my barbs and normally buy about 20 or so at a time to stock it with and watch them as they go about there business for around the month before I restock them as they are eaten as treats by the barbs that hunt them down so fun to watch my tiger barbs.
 
my mollies, the male which is a prety hefty guy, hangs around my shrimp and seems to pay no attention. He even shares sinking wafers with them. They have only been in my tank for a day, but ive seen absolutly no agression.

does regular aquarium salt have iodine? wahts the best way of getting it?
 
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I have 4 ghost shrimp with 6 guppies and 2 clown loaches. When I pop in a few sinking wafers the ghost shrimp will pick them up and try to roll them away. Then the guppies play tug of war with it. Eventually they both give up and just start eating from the same wafer. No aggression in my tank.
 
how important is the iodine to the water? do the ghost shrimp NEED it?
Will it harm other fish?
 
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