Armoured Shrimp Help

[babybell911]

Ok so I work in a pet store and a customer bought in an armoured shrimp today saying it had killed all of his fish. He said it had killed them all with the points on it's front legs waited for them to start decaying then eating the rotting corpses, which weas nice. Now to me it looks like an atya Gabonensis filter shrimp which I thought were completely harmless to fish. Now in all fairness he didn't look like he knew much about fish so I'm guessing the fish had died and the shrimp was scavenging.

I just wanted to double check ifI'm right and this shrimp will be fine if I sell it to someone with fish in the future.

Thanks

 

[lordofthesea]

he is 100% wrong.

it was probably his lack of knowledge that killed his fish

they are completely harmless- i have them with my fish and they have never killed anything

 

[CTlovesKS]

have never kept them myseld but they keep the amored shrimp with loads of platties and other fish in my LFs and they have never been a problem. Also they are completely harmless as above said...

 

[Shrimper]

They are normally harmless, i've never heard of one killing a fish before.

They like a tank with lots of water flow and if they are happy will sit in one spot feeding with their fans on the microscopic animal you get in mature tanks. If they are scavenging at a corpse the tank probably wasn't mature enough, hence the dead fish.

 

[raptorrex]

They are normally harmless, i've never heard of one killing a fish before.

They like a tank with lots of water flow and if they are happy will sit in one spot feeding with their fans on the microscopic animal you get in mature tanks. If they are scavenging at a corpse the tank probably wasn't mature enough, hence the dead fish.

indeed! i would think the only way a Armoured Shrimp could kill a fish, is by, falling on it. or perhaps, choking one. they are keen on a well planted tanks, loads of places to hide and chill. with good flow, as you say. i admit the tank maturity was not on the top of my list here. kinda smacks you in the face though, good point. best not kept with fish, though some do it, as they are very vulnerable during moult.

 

[babybell911]

Ok thanks everyone. Thats what i thought but wanted to double check. Hopefully I can find him a decent home now! x

 

[saltynay]

Who ever you sell it to a second accesory sale would be a pippette and some fry food powder, they need direct feeding every day even if the tank is above 40 gallons (which is reccomended minimum size to support enough free-floating food for the shrimp) and it will also help you shift more items so triple bonus for your store, your concience and your customer satisfaction.

 

[babybell911]

ok thank you he's been getting some liquifry squirted at him at work x