I've never had shrimps in my tanks -- I have a 29 and a 10, long standing tanks. Last week I bought Japonica shrimps -- 4 for the 29 gal and 3 for the 10 gal.
The three in the 10 gal tank live with a dozen assorted small tetras -- head-taillight and rosies. The tank is 50% bare-bottomed with pebbles, java fern and a big rock. The 3 shrimps in there are happy, buzzing around, eating stuff and I can almost always find them when I take attendance each morning.
In the 29 gal tank -- it has a sand bottom, lots of wood, a fair number of live plants, 6 bloodfins tetras, 4 corys and 2 bolivian rams. As soon as I put the shrimps in this tank the rams poked them. I didn't think anything of it, they are not huge rams, but when I try to find shrimps in this tank I cannot find even one. I'm wondering if the rams are the type of fish to eat the shrimps? (The shrimps are about an inch)
Yes, they are transparent and really hard to see even when you are looking right at them, so I suppose I'm just not seeing them. But one day I saw a pink body under an overhang of wood. I thought - bummer, one's dead. I didn't have time to remove it just then but when I went back 4 hours later it was not there. So I thought maybe someone dragged it away or consumed it -- I don't know. Do they turn pink when they die?
I picked up one decoration and found the shell of the head end of a shrimp....was that a body or was that the result of molting?
btw, water in both tanks are the same, all good numbers, a little hard.
The three in the 10 gal tank live with a dozen assorted small tetras -- head-taillight and rosies. The tank is 50% bare-bottomed with pebbles, java fern and a big rock. The 3 shrimps in there are happy, buzzing around, eating stuff and I can almost always find them when I take attendance each morning.
In the 29 gal tank -- it has a sand bottom, lots of wood, a fair number of live plants, 6 bloodfins tetras, 4 corys and 2 bolivian rams. As soon as I put the shrimps in this tank the rams poked them. I didn't think anything of it, they are not huge rams, but when I try to find shrimps in this tank I cannot find even one. I'm wondering if the rams are the type of fish to eat the shrimps? (The shrimps are about an inch)
Yes, they are transparent and really hard to see even when you are looking right at them, so I suppose I'm just not seeing them. But one day I saw a pink body under an overhang of wood. I thought - bummer, one's dead. I didn't have time to remove it just then but when I went back 4 hours later it was not there. So I thought maybe someone dragged it away or consumed it -- I don't know. Do they turn pink when they die?
I picked up one decoration and found the shell of the head end of a shrimp....was that a body or was that the result of molting?
btw, water in both tanks are the same, all good numbers, a little hard.
