[oneill8902]

Ive had 4 amano shrimp in my 60 p for about 2 weeks now. Starting a few days ago i noticed small holes on some of my Alternanthera Reineckii Mini. I thought it was odd trimmed them off and moved on. now a few days later all of them have massive holes and if i come into the room at night and pop the light on i notice the amano shrimp feasting on the leaves. Is there anything I can do to get them to stop eating them?

I tried to get some algae wafers but they seem to largely ignore them in favor of continuing to eat on the plants.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

You can see one of them scurrying away shortly after i turned on the light to take this shot. before this he was on top of the leaves feasting away.

 

[oneill8902]

Thanks everyone for your responses. As you mentioned somewhatshocked the tank is about 2 months old now and I added amonos 2 weeks ago friday after my nitrites hit 0 and i had some algea growth on the rocks. My error was I feel like I added them before enougth bio load was there as they had cleaned everything off of the rocks in about a week before turning towards the plants. I'm going to get some shrimp foods this evening as it seems like they were primarily attacking them much more as they were hungry and hopefully they level off.

Ive been feeding them algea wafers every 3 days since I 1st noticed them attacking the plants but after the 1st instance of feeding them they seem to nibble on it and leave it alone for me to pull out of the tank later so it doesn't cause a spike. Any advice on a good alternative food for them to suplimen their diet would be greatly appreciated.

The AR grows incredibly fast under the lighting i have now (85% on Twinstar 600S III) and ive been dosing ada K and Mineral every day and soon to be adding Iron. I dont think they have any deficiencies but this is the 1st time ive ever kept them. My Hopes is that the growth will outpace the hungry amanos. They DID start their lives as culture plants and as you stated they only seem to go after longer fully grown leaves that have a slight green sheen of algae on them

This weekend ill probably adjust the lighting up to 90% as my goal is to eventually get it to 100 little by little to get the H'ra to go completely red.

Any recommendations on how to better maintain them would be greatly appreciated as always

Here is a picture of the full tank after trimming