killer ghost shrimps!!!

[jeromegsp]

omg i never like them was suppose to be food for my damn puffer but he never ate them....when i 1st got them they're like half a inch now they're like 1.5 inch....n e ways 1 of them would always chase my gobies around and today i was wondering why i only had one after serious looking i lefted up a ship decor and found gobie dead getting eaten by the 2 shrimps....1st i thought jerome my gsp might of did it but the gobies always hide in the ship and hes too big to fit thru holes...damn those shrimps getting flush down the toilet!!!!

 

[ecotank]

Highly doubtful that the shrimps made the kill, but once dead, of course they will dine on what is left of your lil gobie.

The shrimp don't have the arsenal available to them to make the kill, just nibble on what is left.

 

[motherpuffer]

When my puffer dines on guppies he only eats the belly. (Picky little booger) Was that particular part of anatomy missing from yours?
I try to get the smaller ghost shrimp for him. They can really flip around when something gets after them huh?? There is only one left that has outwitted him. I've got too many good hiding places in my tank.

 

[Brockway]

I hate ghost shrimp. My roommate last year had a betta and 2 ghost shrimp, and they kept nipping its fins. He finally just threw the shrimp out the window, but the betta died a little later. I had some in my 10 before, and those d*mn shrimp would chew on the clown loaches when they went to sleep.

 

[jeromegsp]

not to mention they're ugly too

 

[motherpuffer]

I like them because whenever someone asks what I bought, I hold up the bag. They give me the strangest lookand say........I don't see anything.

I don't feel bad for them when they become......lunch.

 

[FroggyFox]

Ghost shrimp are scavengers...they really can't do anything to a healthy fish. There was probably a serious underlying problem in any case that a shrimp was going after a fish.

 

[Managuense]

Ghost shrimp are scavengers...they really can't do anything to a healthy fish. There was probably a serious underlying problem in any case that a shrimp was going after a fish.

this is my line of thought.

i have also read posts about a cory cat that "attacked and was eating my gourami on the bottom of the tank!"

or -- "my filter intake pipe sucked up and killed my fish!"

both of these are simply after the fact, and were probably not the cause of the fish deaths.
M

 

[Velvet AciD]

If you think the shrimp are eating your fish, feed your shrimp. Drop a algae wafer in, or whatever is out there for shrimp food.

 

[jeromegsp]

thx for tips but they were flush down toilet today cruel but they were orginally for food n e ways

 

[Gouramiguy123]

Ive got two of the little buggers... Lately Ive been seeing some small nip marks on my Khuli loaches.... are the shrimp to blame and should I ditch them?

 

[jeromegsp]

hmm imo i think they're nipping at ur loaches but thats just my hateful opinion towards those little buggers

 

[Angelfish]

I just bought 20 ghost shrimp last week (for food) and now you guys are making me paranoid! Although Im almost certain that a ghost shrimp could not kill a fish.

 

[Gouramiguy123]

i'd be happy to give them the heave-ho......never really liked them

 

[Gomer]

My ghost shrimp (before they all became food) would race to eat the algae waffers I left for the pleco.