Will My Cory Cat Eat My Shrimps Eggs?

[weAREtheirVOICE]

I have my fish split up into 2sm tanks while waiting for my new 20g to set up- I put my ghost-shrimp and my sm cory cat in a 5.5g together w/ driftwood and plants. I can see that one female shrimp has fertile eggs, and I've seen them lay in the moss before. I've never actually seen any larvae before (Im assuming they were all either sucked up by the filter or eaten by the Betta and Platys) but w/ the sponge & under-gravel filter I'm using in the sm tank, I figured they might have a chance. I guess what I'm trying to find out is- will my Cory eat the eggs before they even get a chance?

 

[Baccus]

Baby anything is usually fair game as food in the animal world, however I would not necessarily blame cory's for eating eggs (except their own) or shrimplets. Really it depends on what type of shrimp you have as quite a few of the egg layers ( really they just retain thier eggs under the tail but the babies that hatch are known as instars and have a few moults prior to looking like the adults) actually need brackish conditions to complete the life cycle while many of the live barers just drop their miniture replicas of themselves any where in the tank. These tiny shrimplets are very good at hiding until being past easy snack size. I have cherry shrimp living with cory's and the cherry shrimp population is on the definant increase

 

[coldcazzie]

While that is true Baccus, ghost shrimp (which is what the op says they have) do not require brackish conditions. So if they're ghosts then that doesn't apply.

The short answer is yes, the corydoras will eat the eggs or shrimplets if they find them. But so would any other fish.

You say you have moss, as far as I can tell you're giving them the best chance you can

 

[Baccus]

While that is true Baccus, ghost shrimp (which is what the op says they have) do not require brackish conditions. So if they're ghosts then that doesn't apply.

The short answer is yes, the corydoras will eat the eggs or shrimplets if they find them. But so would any other fish.

You say you have moss, as far as I can tell you're giving them the best chance you can

Am I bad some how skimmed over the part about ghost shrimp, being the shrimp in question. But given plenty of thick plants the shrimp will have the best chance of surviving.

 

[coldcazzie]

While that is true Baccus, ghost shrimp (which is what the op says they have) do not require brackish conditions. So if they're ghosts then that doesn't apply.

The short answer is yes, the corydoras will eat the eggs or shrimplets if they find them. But so would any other fish.

You say you have moss, as far as I can tell you're giving them the best chance you can

Am I bad some how skimmed over the part about ghost shrimp, being the shrimp in question. But given plenty of thick plants the shrimp will have the best chance of surviving.

It's ok we're all guilty of skim reading at times!

 

[weAREtheirVOICE]

I'm buying more plants for the new tank this weekend, so I'll put some in for the babies :] I may even keep the shrimp in the lil tank until the 20g is set up so they can raise some fry in peace. I feed the sm Cory pellets and algae wafers reliably in the morning and night, so I'm hoping that might be enough to distract it from any eggs. I'll get it some black worms too, keep it nice n busy! lol

any other suggestions?