I have a side tank that I usually use for quarentine and holding. One day I picked up about 30 ghost shrimp as feeders for my severum and some other larger fish I have.
I dropped them into the Q tank and figured to feed them out over time.
This all went well. until I go in there and hiding in some decorations in the tank were... I kid you not... a small group of 2-3.5" long shrimp!
Is this normal growth rate and size for a ghost shrimp? Admittedly this apparently happened over a month or two.
At this point they are actually nipping at the smaller fish in the tank. Which I find an amusing "reversal of the whip" on them for eating all their breatheren.
I dropped them into the Q tank and figured to feed them out over time.
This all went well. until I go in there and hiding in some decorations in the tank were... I kid you not... a small group of 2-3.5" long shrimp!
Is this normal growth rate and size for a ghost shrimp? Admittedly this apparently happened over a month or two.
At this point they are actually nipping at the smaller fish in the tank. Which I find an amusing "reversal of the whip" on them for eating all their breatheren.