Can you please tell me if it is safe to have cherry shrimplets in the same tank as adult ghost shrimp? I have a pregnant cherry shrimp and I wanted to know if I should move her or the ghost shrimp before the shrimplets arrive.
Thank you.
cherry shrimplets with adult ghost shrimp?
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I agree with badflash, although I must admit I am not a very experienced aquarist.
Recently I set up one tank in my classroom that had only plants, snails and ghost shrimp, and another tank with only snails, cyclops and daphnia. During boom times for the daphnia, I would transfer them to the shrimp tank. Some of the shrimp were remarkably good at eating daphnia. The currents in the tank would cause daphnia to become concentrated in certain corners. The shrimp would hang out in these corners and gobble any daphnia that touched their claws.
The ghosties would eat anything they could grab with their grubby little claws, and that probably includes tiny shrimplets.
The largest shrimp in the tank (probably not a macrobrachium, because she at two inches she was already carrying green eggs) developed a taste for her freshly molted tankmates. I was wondering why some mornings I would look into the tank, and see a molted exoskeleton and a dead legless shrimp. Eventually I caught her in the act. She picked off most of the other shrimp in the tank, and I eventually sent her to the big fishtank in the sky.
I have heard that cannibalism in ghosties means that they are missing something in their diet or water. When the ghosties all died, I kept the water, snails and plants, stocked the tank with red cherries, and the new residents seem to be doing just fine. So I guess it's not the water.
Recently I set up one tank in my classroom that had only plants, snails and ghost shrimp, and another tank with only snails, cyclops and daphnia. During boom times for the daphnia, I would transfer them to the shrimp tank. Some of the shrimp were remarkably good at eating daphnia. The currents in the tank would cause daphnia to become concentrated in certain corners. The shrimp would hang out in these corners and gobble any daphnia that touched their claws.
The ghosties would eat anything they could grab with their grubby little claws, and that probably includes tiny shrimplets.
The largest shrimp in the tank (probably not a macrobrachium, because she at two inches she was already carrying green eggs) developed a taste for her freshly molted tankmates. I was wondering why some mornings I would look into the tank, and see a molted exoskeleton and a dead legless shrimp. Eventually I caught her in the act. She picked off most of the other shrimp in the tank, and I eventually sent her to the big fishtank in the sky.
I have heard that cannibalism in ghosties means that they are missing something in their diet or water. When the ghosties all died, I kept the water, snails and plants, stocked the tank with red cherries, and the new residents seem to be doing just fine. So I guess it's not the water.
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The impression I came away with from my ghost shrimp, was that sometimes they just felt like tasting a little fresh meat, but not if there was a chance that the "fresh meat" might fight back.badflash wrote:There must be some differences in temperment. My ghost were well fed too. They killed for sport.
