Ok Ive had these four amano shrimp for a while and i was wondering if they eat fish because some of my fish have dissapeared and i found the skeleton of one in my tank tonight...
Question about amano shrimp???
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Mine ate 2/3 of my killies, found the body of one, found the big pregnant one eating the second in the same spot.
I had lost fish b4, pearl gourami and a fire dwarf gourami, and they had been eating them.
Also they kill my snails, all this happens while they dodge the falling pieces of food that is meant for them!!
Pulled them, they bred, they died, now have dozens of babys that soon will be outta here and with me throwing good ridance signs at them!!
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I had lost fish b4, pearl gourami and a fire dwarf gourami, and they had been eating them.
Also they kill my snails, all this happens while they dodge the falling pieces of food that is meant for them!!
Pulled them, they bred, they died, now have dozens of babys that soon will be outta here and with me throwing good ridance signs at them!!
:silly: :silly: :silly:
I watched the big girl swim down with the carcass. I think she killed it.
All shrimp (besides filter feeds), IMO, will eat meat, some hunt, some scavenge. I watched them kill my snails. Pounding holes in their shells with their 6 little arms then tearing it to pieces :barf: <-- :joke:
All shrimp (besides filter feeds), IMO, will eat meat, some hunt, some scavenge. I watched them kill my snails. Pounding holes in their shells with their 6 little arms then tearing it to pieces :barf: <-- :joke:
Are you sure you're talking about Amano shrimp and not some sort of dwarf crayfish or something?!?
1) Amanos (to the best of my reading and limited experience) scavenge, eat algae and dead fish/other stuff only. They don't kill anything except microfauna and that's pretty much only when they're juveniles.
2) They may breed in tanks, but they have larval stages that require (at least) brackish water, so unless you're going out of your way to accomodate berried females & their hatchlings witha variety of specific gravity changes and specialized nutrient streams, I highly doubt you would ever see any viable babies in an aquarium. If you want viable Shrimp babies in a regular aquarium (sponge filters preferred), get Neocaridina denticulata stock, not Caridina japonica.
3) more on my experience - Mine is now ~fully grown. He's as big as the pork-chops he shares a 5g with. He never bothers them or the pond snails in there. He is a tireless picker of whatever he can find from plants, sand and other surfaces. He loves algae wafers but he has to get what he can before snails arrive as they block him out. He's not exactly a killer...
1) Amanos (to the best of my reading and limited experience) scavenge, eat algae and dead fish/other stuff only. They don't kill anything except microfauna and that's pretty much only when they're juveniles.
2) They may breed in tanks, but they have larval stages that require (at least) brackish water, so unless you're going out of your way to accomodate berried females & their hatchlings witha variety of specific gravity changes and specialized nutrient streams, I highly doubt you would ever see any viable babies in an aquarium. If you want viable Shrimp babies in a regular aquarium (sponge filters preferred), get Neocaridina denticulata stock, not Caridina japonica.
3) more on my experience - Mine is now ~fully grown. He's as big as the pork-chops he shares a 5g with. He never bothers them or the pond snails in there. He is a tireless picker of whatever he can find from plants, sand and other surfaces. He loves algae wafers but he has to get what he can before snails arrive as they block him out. He's not exactly a killer...
I keep Amano shrimp. They certainly don't eat live/healthy fish. I wouldn't put it past them to pick at a fish that was already dead, but they don't hunt fish.
Okay, there's no way those are Amano shrimp. They require salt water for the juveniles to develop. So if you weren't trying to actively breed them, you couldn't possibly have bred them.
Even filter feeders eat meat (they will actively filter out baby brine shrimp or microworms). However no Amano shrimp will "pound holes in their shells" to get to a shrimp.
I suspect that you were sold some Macrobrachium species as Amano shrimp.
Sam
Amano shrimp do not actively hunt and kill fish. However, they eat just about anything. If a fish dies, or is sick they are opportunistic, and will fill their bellies. I've kept Amano shrimp with with fish such as guppies, endlers, pleco, and they've never 'hunted'. I even have five in my red claw nursery tank. They have never chased any of the much smaller infant shrimp.
Another thing to consider is, many shrimp are sold under an incorrect name. So you may think you have Amanos when infact you have a different species. I've even heard of people purchasing 'ghost shrimp' and actually getting Macrobrachium Rosenbergii. That has got to be the most aggressive fresh water shrimp. They also get HUGE!
You should see one of my blue crayfish hunt!
He's not very good at it. He likes to climb a plant to the top of the tank. Then he waits with his claws out wide. When a fish gets close he leaps out at them and floats down to the bottom. So far the score is Tarzan (blue crayfish): 0; Mollies: 45 (approximate number of days the crayfish have been in the tank).
Another thing to consider is, many shrimp are sold under an incorrect name. So you may think you have Amanos when infact you have a different species. I've even heard of people purchasing 'ghost shrimp' and actually getting Macrobrachium Rosenbergii. That has got to be the most aggressive fresh water shrimp. They also get HUGE!
You should see one of my blue crayfish hunt!
He's not very good at it. He likes to climb a plant to the top of the tank. Then he waits with his claws out wide. When a fish gets close he leaps out at them and floats down to the bottom. So far the score is Tarzan (blue crayfish): 0; Mollies: 45 (approximate number of days the crayfish have been in the tank).
*sigh*
Ok, heres some more proof if you havent been reading my threads...
Ok, she got pregnant in my tank, but refused to have her babys, and finally, over 2 weeks later I put her and the others in a 1g bowl temporarily, and droped in 4 pieces of aquarium salt to see what happened.
The babys were about a tenth of the size of a flea, barely visible, didnt resemble shrimp at all, and couldnt move very much.
Now, the dozens of babys are shaped like shrimp and can swim quickly like their parents. They still stay near the top.
I wish I had dwarf crays. Ive been looking all over for them, but im stuck with amanos.
They did eat algae, because now that theyre gone its everywhere, and they were amanos, no doubt about it, I've read up on it alot, and Ive got em.
Ok, heres some more proof if you havent been reading my threads...
Ok, she got pregnant in my tank, but refused to have her babys, and finally, over 2 weeks later I put her and the others in a 1g bowl temporarily, and droped in 4 pieces of aquarium salt to see what happened.
The babys were about a tenth of the size of a flea, barely visible, didnt resemble shrimp at all, and couldnt move very much.
Now, the dozens of babys are shaped like shrimp and can swim quickly like their parents. They still stay near the top.
I wish I had dwarf crays. Ive been looking all over for them, but im stuck with amanos.
They did eat algae, because now that theyre gone its everywhere, and they were amanos, no doubt about it, I've read up on it alot, and Ive got em.
My killies were new, and probably stressed, AKA "sick".
That would explain why my shrimps at them.
They dont look anything like ghost shrimp, and not nearly like most others.
That would explain why my shrimps at them.
They dont look anything like ghost shrimp, and not nearly like most others.
That doesn't sound like Amanos to me. I've kept them for a few years now, and the only time I've seen them eating a fish is when it was already dead.