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where do these ghost shrimp go2007-11-24 23:42:54

no funny comments please! ;)

I have been reading info. about ghost shrimp and hearing alot of comments about ghost shrimp dissappearing..are they crawling out of the tank? being eaten, ? sucked up in the filter??

i m contemplating on buying some and want to learn all I can prior to..

thanks everyone! :)

Answers:

Being eaten most likely. Ghost shrimp are VERY yummy to other fish. The other cause also may be that people get too many. Ghost shrimp eat algae as their sole source of food, and if you have to many they starve. Ghost shrimp dont really dissapear, they eaither get eaten or die from starvation and THEN get eaten.

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ok i get them a lot my fish eat them any fish will even gold fish i have tryed everything even breadding them at one point but it takes them a long time to do but it was great as long as they where in on tank by them self

also the filter does suck them up if there dead they die ok its like i guess

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Chances are, they're being eaten. I started out with five in my 55-gallon tank a couple months ago - I have none left. I've heard stories of bettas eating them in a sitting, but somehow I think my silver dollars or the African dwarf frogs are more to blame than my betta.

Keep in mind you do need a tight-fitting cover on the tank you keep them in. I had one jump out of the quarantine tank when we were moving them to the big tank - those suckers can jump FAR! I never did find him. At any rate, I've read stories of people coming home from work to find shrimp on their floors because they didn't keep a lid of the tank (one person even talking about how her cat would lure them out and then chase them around until they died).