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i think my crs are eating my anacharis(elodea) -__- moving from the bottom up where the anacharis is planted, the leaves are slowly dwindling and disappearing from what seems to be having been eaten off. there are signs of the crs eating into several other leaves at the top. and i highly doubt it's a plant virus or something considering the other anacharis in the tank is really healthy...

any way to cure this? i already place around 1/8 of an algae wafer inside the tank for them.

oh...and this tank is a 1 gallon (YES YES I KNOW VERY SMALL. but i'd much rather be able to see them grow without any problems before moving them into a larger tank on their own), with red sea's flora base, a few scattered pebbles, 2 anacharis, some najas, and should be around 8 crs that are all juveniles (average 1/3 of an inch).

First of all, the abbreviation for Red Cherry Shrimp is RCS not CRS. CRS stands for crystal red shrimp. Please follow this convention to avoid confusion.

Second, your plant is just losing leaves (i.e. leaves are dying) from the bottom, which is normal for that type of plant in certain situations (such as lack of light and/or lack of nutrients, the fact that it's store bought among many other things), especially in a one gallon tank which is WAY too small for Elodea densa. A shrimp might nibble at a dying (i.e. parts of it are already dead) leaf but dwarf shrimp won't ever eat healthy leaves in my experience.

Third...I really, really urge you to read the stickys in the forum (for some of the rules...and the fact that "I am too lazy to search" (a sentence you have used before) is not a desired comment in this forum), read the articles I wrote and thoroughly search the forum for information before posting anything. There is a lot of good information out there already which does not have to be repeated. If it says in the article and countless posts that shrimp don't eat plants, then it's probably a good idea to think of other reasons why your plant is losing leaves before asking a question about it. Using a search engine such as google for your plant question (in addition to searching the forum) for that purpose would not have been such a bad idea. If you still don't come up with anything after all that and after having put in a good effort, then it's probably a good idea to ask a question.