Do Shirmp Eat Baby Shrimp?

[simplysim]

Hi

After posting about my new baby Red Cherry Shrimp, last night i was having a good look in my tank to see if i could see any (long shot) and i did see one very tiny transparant shrimp moving around and then all of a sudden i saw one a bit bigger but had its red colour, so im thinking the ones which hatch on Sunday must be the second lot of babys.

Anyway no sooner had i seen the red baby one of my Amano shirmps came along and what looked like he nabbed the baby and ate it??? Is this normal? Do shirmp eat other baby shrimp?

 

[shroob]

Red cherry shrimp will not eat their young, but I wouldn't put it beyond the realms of possibility an amano shrimp would.

How sure are you that you have an amano shrimp? Might sound a daft question but it has been known for people to misidentify their shrimp and find out they have a macro shrimp (one with pincers that will eat baby shrimp/even fish in some cases).

I did a few searches on the internet and came across a thread where someone's large female amano shrimp ate a baby guppy, and in the same thread someone else reported that their amano shrimp was turning a pale red from eating lots of RCS young. Having said that that was only 1 result out of my searches and I couldn't speak on the validity/reliablity of the posters. Though I did find accounts of amano's actively hunting daphnia so not a huge leap from that to newly hatched shrimplets one might say.

Overall I would say its very unlikely that an amano shrimp would eat a baby shrimp, however I wouldn't say impossible.

 

[pippoodle]

My ammanos occasionally eat a baby cherry shrimp but only when they are hungry - ie when i went away for 5 days i came back and found the amanos munching on baby shrimp so i can only think that they were hungry
are you supplimenting the shrimps diet or just letting them munch whats in the tank ?

Ammanos will hunt and catch the live daphnia , brineshrimp and bllodworms - the cherrys eat all of it live but waits til its on the floor the amanos swim round chasing it lol

 

[simplysim]

Amanos are algee eating shirmp right? I have algee eating shirmp have i got Ammonos?

Maybe i made a mistake wasnt sure if the baby got away quick as they are fast but it just look like the Amanos shirmp was munching on something at the same time.

I have been feeding twice a day with Flake food and once a week i give them a blood worm cube as a treat. Do you suggest something else? I did buy pellet food (that falls to the bottom) for my shrimp but my fish just ate them all, the Shrimp didnt get a look in.

Thanks

 

[shroob]

Amano's do eat algae, but they also eat other things as pip~ demonstrated by the feeding of daphnia/blood worm.

 

[simplysim]

They have a black stipe all the way down the middle.

 

[pippoodle]

look here for pics hun http/www.fishforums.net/index.php?showtopic=142468

Also for the shrimp try to get some shrimp pellets these take longer to disintegrate then normal ones , i know hikari and sera make some for shrimp

shrimp food should be left in the tank for an hour and then removed if not eaten as they take so long to eat it
It might be worth puting the shrimp food in first then dropping the fish food in right after so the shrimp get a bit longer to eat before the fish finish theirs

I feed my shrimps every other day aswell as them eating the algae off the tank
i feed them ,
treat food
daphnia , bloodworms , brine shrimp , butternut squash and peas

basic food
sera shrimp pellets , algae wafers , spirulina wafers

i feed one lot of treat food one feed then the next feed 2 days later they have basic food - alternating each time

 

[simplysim]

I put in some cucumber last night and they loved it.

 

[pippoodle]

I put in some cucumber last night and they loved it.

Great they love it
yeah i forgot cucumber mine love it too , and also i hang apple skins in for an hour

 

[simplysim]

Apple skins really? Can you recommend any other food they like. Its great to see how they eat the cucumber and leave a great big whole.

Another question about my red cherry shrimp, once they have laid thier eggs is thier a change they can lay more quite soon after or not all at once?

Thanks

 

[Schmill]

After reading this thread I put a block of cucumber in my shrimp tank last night, weighted down with an old plant weight and...... this morning took out the same untouched peice - lol

I guess maybe they were more interested in something else!