Today I received the shrimps from speedie. They are beautiful! But then while dripping tank water into their temp holder I realized that they might be too small to be swimming freely in my tank. The clown killifish might eat them for dinner 😱. So for now I have them in the breeding box and see if the fish will try to pick on them through the net...
Anyone has experience with killifish and small shrimps?
Especially one named "killfish" :icon_roll
And this is exactly how I came to have a shrimp tank. Before they were all large enough to brave the community tank I had 4 berried and I'm sure before those all grow up I'll have more berried. In fact the 1st one has hatched the eggs and is berried again. Guess I'll always have a shrimp tank!
My advice...... just go with it..... enjoy your shrimp tank:thumbsup:
Yeah bad idea, that was some expensive fish food. Move the fish or the shrimp will get eaten or killed by them..... You should really read up before buying shrimp. On the do's and don'ts to shrimp keeping. One of the top things is do not keep with other fish besides ottos..... Even if the fish do not pick at the through the breeder, they will when they become free swimming... If you would like I will pay the shipping and you can send them to me, I will make sure they are safe.
Stupid me. I forgot about the danger because I have 5 medium size CRS and 7 FRS in the tank, and the clown killifish have never bother them. Now I think maybe I can either keep the little shrimps in the breeding box until they get big enough, or move the killifishs to my Betta tank...
I have the tank for 2 months only but none of the shrimp have berried yet. That's why I questioned if all the shrimps are in the same sex and ordered some from speedie to "spicy" it up 😆. The clown killifish have been spawning for two weeks, however.
They are both so cute to watch. I have my Zen moment now everyday by watching the fish tank instead of the TV. Too bad now I have to wait until the new shrimps become medium size before they can join the zen world.
I had the same trepidations when I was dropping my juvie speedie shrimps into my tank with CPDs and Rainbow fishes.
The fishes first nipped at the juvies when introduced into the tank but left them alone immediately after that.
I don't know anything about your fishes though.
And, my shrimps did get berried a few times. I think my shrimps are on F3 now. I started with 3 blue velvets and a year later I got 8 bv/sb mutts. So, some fry were shrimp food but enough survived to sustain the line.
I am not breeding shrimps, so this works out fine for me.
idk when i had clown killie they always stayed at the top of the tank. shrimp tend to stay close to the bottom and with moss as a cover they should be ok but you might lose babies
IMO, it's time to get another tank that is shrimp specific. It doesn't have to be a large tank and you will be able to watch the colony grow. I just can't bear the thought of one of my little creatures becoming fish food. Eeek. They are such peaceful creatures, they deserve a safe environment free from stress of being eaten.
For some reason my clown killifish are not typical. They never stay on the surface and swim everywhere in my tank. They go through all the plants & driftwood holes like a roller coaster. I am going to put the biggest young CBS out and see how it goes...
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