Amano shrimp dissapear?

hirschy75 · Post by **hirschy75** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:08 pm

Hi everyone i had an amano shrimp in my eclipse 3 and now it is totally gone, i can't see it anywhere. it has no fish so i know it wasn't eaten so i did a little reserch to see if they eat their own kind and i discovered a thread on aquariacentral.com today that talked about the shrimp being totally gone and then like a week later coming back and i think there were like 3 other people that said the same thing and i was wondering if any of you out there have had this happen to you

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 6:17 pm

The only time I had an amano shrimp disappear was when it had climbed out of the tank. It was not a happy ending as I found it 20 feet away dead on the carpet

After that I made sure the tank was tightly covered.

badflash · Post by **badflash** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 3:58 am

If they don't like your water parameters, or there is no place to hide when they molt, they will try to escape. I've seen this with Bamboos too.

eklikewhoa · Post by **eklikewhoa** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:49 am

These things crawl like crayfish!

I had some go missing too but found out it was my Apisto eating them.