Red Nose Shrimp

[newshrimplover]

Hi,

Just bought 4 red nose shrimp. Put them in my shrimps only 2 ft tank together with Tiger and Cherry shrimp. After 3 days, I notice the red nose begin to eat up most of the plants, including moss.

Does anyone else have the same experience ?

Thank you.

[samosette]

They are great algae grazers. Mine pick at my plants all day and night long, but they dont seem to eat or harm the plants. At least mine don't, they just clean em.

[newshrimplover]

Thanks for your reply. I have just isolated the red nose to a smaller tank and added some more plants. Will see what happen next.

[Sami]

Hi,

Just bought 4 red nose shrimp. Put them in my shrimps only 2 ft tank together with Tiger and Cherry shrimp. After 3 days, I notice the red nose begin to eat up most of the plants, including moss.

Does anyone else have the same experience ?

Thank you.

Yes. I have red nose shrimps which eat plants, but only Egeria densa. Both of the plants grow quickly in my aquarium so compared to their algae eating skills it doesn't matter that they occasionally bite of few leaves of plants. They don't eat plants all the time and I've heard that the eating _may_ be related to gender. All my red noses are female.

[newshrimplover]

Hi Sami,

Maybe you are right, 'they don't eat plants all the time'. My tank is relatively new, about 1 week old. No algae as yet. Perhaps that's why they eat up all my plants.

[Swervedriver]

Sami, what do your female red-nose shrimp look like? Any characteristics distinguishable from the males?

[newshrimplover]

I am not sure which is male or female. I got only 5 and looks the same to me.

[kimco]

From observation of my red-nose, I think the female tends to be bigger in size and comes with less red stripes while the male tends to be smaller but are more colourful in terms of red stripes on their bodies.

Cheers,

KG

[BlueEL]

another thing is the red nose of the male tends to be longer and skinner.