who ate who?

dave76

dave76

Home Zookeeper in Training....
May 13, 2003
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I just added some new plants (red ludiwiga & microsword) to my planted tank. several small snails and two amano shrimp were in with the plants. The snails are still around but the amano's are gone. I have a peppered cory, a julii cory and 3 bolivian rams that might have been the culprit. The rams seemed to ignore the shrimp and were all pushed around by a blue ram that was half thier size prior to separation. Also the tank temperature was 88F and all tank parameters were as normal ammonia 0ppm, nitrite 0ppm, nitrate 10 ppm gh 150 kh 120 ph 7.2. The only other inhabitants are a school of neons and a school of glowlights. I just dont think they are the ones that did it. Any Ideas?
 
Who ate the shrimps?

There are quite a few horror stories about snails eating goldfish and stuff on the board. Are you snails the big varieties? I doubt small ones can eat the shrimp.
 
WinterWind said:
Who ate the shrimps?

There are quite a few horror stories about snails eating goldfish and stuff on the board. Are you snails the big varieties? I doubt small ones can eat the shrimp.
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the snails are smaller than a pencil eraser and one of the amanos was at least and inch long. Thats why I was so confused as to what happened to them. I think either they must have been eaten by the rams or decided to take a walk and maybe one of my cats got them or something I dont know but it was wierd that both of them are gone. Now that you mention it I have not seen the snails today either :huh: hrmmm....
 
Have you checked the filter? Shrimp are very good at getting into filters unscathed. I can't count the number of times I pulled my amanos out--I finally gave up, figured that if they can get in, they can get out--and haven't worried about it since.
 
Check the floor around the tank too...I've had amanos jump out of their tank before and would find them on the floor...dried out.
 
I looked around the bottom on the ground and found nothing, course I am sure that if they did they probably ended up as a kitty snack. I did not see any of them in the filter so I am guessing they commitied suicide. Oh well what can you do. 88F isnt to for them is it?
 
Snails that we keep in freshwater aquariums don't hunt down fast moving prey. I think it was established that that goldfish died and the snail then began eating it. When I kept mystery snails in my pond, they'd try to catch a dying fish but were never successful. Ammanos move so fast a snail wouldn't have a chance.
 
Whenever my shrimp would molt they would disapear until they had a new shell. And I could never find them. Of course if they molted and didn't have a place to go someone could have eaten them.
 
None of those would be able to eat an amano shrimp unless you have a bare bottom tank and there's no where for the shrimp to hide and it molted in the open. Then it's fair to say that you just feed your fish a really fresh & live shirmp pellet.
Have you ever medicated your tank with anything copper related? They are usually the 1 shrimp killer.
 
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