I had 3 ghost shrimp for about a month...now they are gone..poof! I have 6 platies along with them...would they have eaten them if not....what the hell happened to them?
2007-07-11 12:12:18 · 8 answers · asked by Clayton 1 in Pets ➔ Fish
I have 5 adult GS and 1 baby (or at least that is all I can find...had 3) in a 55g tank. Unless I feed, I can not find any of them! This tank is not planted at all...very open.
Now that being said...all "critters" in an aquarium will eat anything dead in the tank! Go to a "bad" petstore and see for yourself...If the GS died, then I would say yes, the remaining GS and Platies have eaten them, and the last GS would have been eaten by the Platies. Do you have snails in the tank? I lost a GS, and the snails had it completely GONE in about 6 hrs!
It does not take long to eat a dead shrimp...I have another tank with just Cherry Shrimp, and I lost one (due to an injury, so she was easy to identify when she was alive)..she was alive when I left for work, and 6 hrs later, all that was left of her (including the exo) was a small piece of pink flesh that the other shrimp were "fighting" over.
2007-07-12 06:24:18 · answer #1 · answered by Suzie Q 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ghost shrimp are notorious jumpers, so check behind your fish tank. Look for crispy, orange shrimp stuck to the floor. Platies will not eat an adult ghost shrimp, but it wouldn't surprise me to see one ghost shrimp eating another. You could have had one shrimp that ate the other two, and then it died and decomposed. This would explain what happend if there are no crispy shrimp on the floor.
2007-07-11 12:21:31 · answer #2 · answered by fivespeed302 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
From what i've got have been given be taught the shrimp will each and every so usually eat their youthful. to circumvent that verify you have a great sort of flowers/moss for the babies to cover in mutually as they have hatched. additionally, what length is your tank? Goldfish are offered a juveniles at doggy shops. They grow to be around 23 inches mutually as they are adults!
2017-01-02 05:18:12 · answer #3 · answered by bashford 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They might just be hiding. Every once in a while, Shrimp have to molt (shed their exoskeleton) so they can "upgrade" their "skin" when they do this, they become very vunerable, so they are likely just hiding. Wait a few days before digging through your tank to find them...
um... what Chelbell, are you an idiot... or ummm... a blonde?
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2007-07-11 12:19:44 · answer #4 · answered by nosoop4u246 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The fish may have killed and eaten them after a molt before their exoskeletons could harden.
2007-07-11 12:29:28 · answer #5 · answered by Mimik 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they aregood hiders, so check carefully.
But ghost shrimps will be eatten so it is possible thatthe platties ate them.
2007-07-11 12:21:27 · answer #6 · answered by Coral Reef Forum 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
my friend has one, but you can se it unkess is goes by the light in the fish tank.
2007-07-12 02:57:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
what OK is that a kind of shrimp of the ghost of one ummmm wow
2007-07-11 12:18:24 · answer #8 · answered by Jane is not my name! 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋