My Guppy Fry Are Dying!? Is It The Ghost Shrimp?

[guppymommy]

I have a ten gallon tank that houses three adult guppies and several older fry (ranging from 2-3 months old). I recently added two Ghost Shrimp and my guppy fry have been dying! Do Ghost Shrimp kill guppies? My lfs had them in the tank with the guppies, so I thought it would be alright . . . was I wrong? These are good sized fry, not tiny things, so what's going on?

I've checked my water stats and done a water change (though according to the test strips, everything was within the safe range).

Is it the shrimp?

 

[fish4meplz]

Yes the shirmp can kill the fry, I would get rid of them.

 

[Spader]

im not too sure about that............

 

[guppymommy]

So we have differing opinions here . . . do the shrimp kill the fry or don't they?

Does anyone have ghost shrimp? Do they have trouble with the fry dying?

HELP!

 

[Spader]

lol just think logically, can a ghost shrimp, thats small, actually attack some well sized fry and do damage? eh not likely

I had amano shrimp that are really big in with my fry and no one died

 

[Kame-San]

Well, did the fry look like they had died from trauma? I've never had any kind of shrimp, so I really don't know. But, take into consideration what the fry looked like after they died (did they die from injury, or unknown causes?) and why would the shrimp have a reason to hurt them?

 

[guppymommy]

I didn't see any signs of damage at all, so it must not be the ghost shrimp. I'll do another water change tomorrow and I've put a fungus treatment in just in case (I found one adult guppy with finrot today and am treating her in a separate tank). One more fry died tonight. My amonia reading says it's safe (white test strip pad indicating 0). I hope the treatment works. Poor little fishies!

 

[hot_hazza3]

Keep treating!!!

Good luck Guppy Mummy!!!


H3

 

[Annastasia]

Shrimp can attack fry, yes. How big are these fry?

You don't usually want to medicate unless you know what it is. Over-medicating can be deadly to fry. Have you been adding lots of medicines into the tank lately?

 

[guppymommy]

Nope, this is the first time I've treated this tank. I only did it because one of the females I removed had really bad finrot (with the whitish edge that indicates a fungus . . . she died last night). The remaining fish in the tank seem to be doing fine and none of them were dead this morning (which is the first morning in a couple of days that I didn't find one dead).

The fry are rather big as they are 2 and 3 months old. Here are a couple of pictures . . . the water is dark from the treatment, but hopefully it will give you an idea of the size of the fry.

Are they small enough for the Ghost Shrimp to kill them?

 

[hot_hazza3]

I wouldn't say so from looking at them!!!

H3

 

[guppymommy]

I forgot to put on the pictures that the "adult" guppy is on the left and the fry on the right. But I still think the fry are big enough for the shrimp not to kill them . . . right?

 

[fish4meplz]

They look to be to big for a ghost shrimp to be killing them Ive had ghost shrimp kill my fry thats why i thought that they were doing it but they are to big to be taken down by ghost shrimp.