Um monster shrimp

[cassharper]

you can try exodons. They look cooler and would probably do the job faster. You can find some at this website --------> CLICK HERE

I was expecting a rick roll

 

[SmokinCoCo]

Hey MHCBlues119 you get a chance to take any pics this weekend?

I went to my lfs on Sat to get some feeder molly's but he was out...they are supposed to get some in later this week so I'll try and get some pics this coming weekend.

 

[freshienow]

I want to get some shrimp, especially after this summer when I have a larger tank. I am very hesitant to after reading this thread though because I don not want any unneeded casualties. Are there any other shrimp that takee a ghost shrimp's role....without the killing?

 

[Albel]

Um... I kninda believe ya buddy!
I think we under-estimate our ghost-shrimp buddies and amano buddies!
I have witnessed my big amano shrimp grab a cherry shrimp that had jsut begun to molt, and start eating the exposed flesh! My poor little cherries! I had thought my betta had suddenly went in a killing frenzy after 2 months when 2 of my 3 cherries dies (although I have never seen him bothered them)... but also had noticed that their deaths all coincided with their molts... yet my amanos had no trouble moulting and I always their calcium and iodine supplements. Well the last cherry was doing great... until the amano grabbed it!
I have since fallen on a few forums where people have witnessed their amano or ghost swimming up and grabbing a passing-by guppy... and even a platy!! A girl also mentioned her amanos killing all of her cherries. I have also heard mention of ghosts killing neon tetras.

I have two amanos, one (the small male) is entirely placid and never bothers anyone, the female however (that is more than twice his size) is VERY agressive and always shoves him to steal his food, and I have even witnessed my betta stealing her food... and then she attacked him and got the food back with my fish backing-up and watching her eat the leftovers from a safe distance!
She even comes up and grabs food right out of my fingers!
I have had her since she was little (thought she was a ghost shrimp back then until she gained her colors) and she was afraid of everything and would back up right away whenever my betta swam by her. Now she is afraid of nothing (heck I can put my finger next to her and she does not move) while the other one is afraid of everything! So I guess it depends of the shrimp's agressiveness too!
I think the only reason my betta is ok is because he is bigger and likes to boss the shrimps around and remind them its "his" tank once in a while, and he will fight back if she tries to push him away. I will seperate them however just to be safe!!

Lets just say I have witnessed so much aggression and "hunting" from that amano that I now have no doubt that she is not to enter a tank with cardinal tetras, guppies or anything small!

 

[Albel]

I can believe they ate the betta. I can't see how they killed it though

They dart high speed on the fish, drag it down to the bottom, then their fast moving little "clippers" go right at the soft tissue spots! Bettas have strong bodies so one shrimp would have a hard time killing it I would say, but if the moment it was brought down some other shrimps got to him too... then yes I can imagine it happening, especially with 25 of them in the tank...
They fight for food all the time these shrimps, so if the others saw one with the fish, they certainly would of tried to steal a bite!

 

[Albel]

I think you just need to feed more your shrimp. They are so hungry they need hunting for surviving

I always fed my shrimps tons! I spot feed them and trust me they get LOTS! And the water does not get fouled because they eat everything fast, and I'm still carefull not to exagerate! Yet she ate my cute cherries!

Shrimps are scavengers, but not JUST scavengers! They are opportunist feeders and they are very capable of killing a fish, there "clippers" might look tiny to us, but they certainly can cut through flesh efficiently! Its probably more that they look for easy preys, they don't seem to give much of a fight when they realise the opponent is stronger... but they still try.

I think these guys must kill fish a little more often then we would think, its just that the normal response when a person sees his guppy or tetra being devoured by a shrimp is "I wonder what it died of?", taking for granted the fish was sick or died and that the necros are just doing their cleaning job... and so the killing stays well undercover and no one suspects the shrimp! Since they are not predatory like usual predators, they don't seem to kill THAT often, so its even easier for their occasional killings to go unnoticed, because we tend to think "if it hunted fish then it would go after them right away and eventually kill them ALL".. which does not seem to be the case with people claiming they saw their shrimp grab on the occasion a passing fish.
The perfect crime!

 

[griffin]

This would explain whats been happening to my Platties. I'm pretty sure the ghost shrimp have been attacking them at night while the lights are off.

 

[zfoster22]

monster shrimp is a funny oxymoron hah my mom just said that earlier!

 

[BLACK ICE]

Ok now all the dead guppies and 1 dead baby bullhead is starting to seem like less the arowanas fault. I was wondering why he was killing them and not eating them...

As far as the ghost shrimp being able to kill things much larger than them if it is my shrimp that are doing it they killed a bullhead 3 times their size and there is only 8 shrimp about 1" a peice

 

[BTD930]

do u hav any pics?