Vanishing Shrimps

[Jofish]

I added 4 amano shrimps to my tank last Thursday, and I have not seen one since Saturday. Now Tuesday morning. Do you think my fish have eaten them. I have black neons and ordinary tetras and rasporas and panda cories. The shrimp were quite large and I was told that they would be OK. I know they are translucent but I should see something?

 

[NickAu]

Is your tank planted? They could just be hiding. At 1 stage I couldn’t find a single shrimp in my tank, Then I re did my plants pulling some out pruning some also, All of a sudden I had about 12 shrimp. They were just hiding.
 

 
Do you think my fish have eaten them

 
No Idea.

 

[Tooombsy]

Usually Amanos are a good size already when brought from the store, I can't imagine the fish you have would attempt to eat one.
As stated above they are probably hiding, I have 6 in my tank and some days I don't see any.
They like to hide at the back cleaning my plants

 

[Jofish]

Thanks I will keep looking

 

[Baccus]

Also check your filter, shrimp are experts in getting into filters either through the intake or via the return.

 

[NickAu]

 
Also check your filter, shrimp are experts in getting into filters either through the intake or via the return.

 
Cover your filter intake like this. I did this after Baccus told me the same thing in another post.
 

 

[dave840f1]

What do you mean by ordinary Tetras?

 

[the_lock_man]

As others have said, they are masters of hiding.
 
 

What do you mean by ordinary Tetras?

 
I suspect that since the previous phrase was black neons, that "ordinary" refers to "ordinary" neon tetras.

 

[dave840f1]

I'm sure Jofish can answer for himself, one should not assume what other people mean. I'm not having a go at you but I would have liked Jofish to have clarified the question.

 

[nic1]

Hi,
I have amano shrimp.
As well as being king of hide and seek they also can climb up the walls of the aquarium and out of any tiny hole, once I found one on the roof of my aquarium lid just chilling.
When I first got them I didnt see them for at least a week, then I only saw one at any time, it was about a month when I saw all of them together, but the more you have the more likely you will see them...I have found its all about safety in numbers with these lot!