Will ghost shrimp go after your small fish? Watch this before keeping ghost shrimp.
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
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Good morning yall....
MasterAquatics shoulda punched the shrimp in the face haha
MasterAquatics good morning
What's that red gourami looking thing?
I have a question I was wondering if you keep about 4 ghost shrimp in a 5 gallon tank with a beta fish recently I bought 4 of the shrimps and about three days later my beta fish died did they kill him :((?
why good morning? it's the night
Fishkeeper: buys feeder shrimp to feed to his fish
Feeder Shrimp: eats the fish
Bro I bought some feeder shrimp for my half-moon betta, and they ate the half-moon bettas tail. it died. I know you made this comment a while back, but clearly, these shrimp are aggressive fish killers cause here I am in the year 2023 wondering wtf happened to my poor betta
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I think you just have some gangster ghost shrimp like a ghost shrimp mob or something... because my ghost shrimp just be chilling with the fry Guppies....
Wtf i'm not even kidding my ghost shrimp killed 3 of my adult male guppies and 1 of my huge adult female guppy. Not even kidding wtf
everybody gangsta til the shrimps start eating
Ja,ja,ja,,, that's was a good one....
Mine attack my fish like wtf
There are two different species of ghost shrimp that are similar, but one is extremely aggresive
Lol the eyeballs look like they been struck with fear.
I was admiring a tiny little fry and my ghost shrimp just walked up and snatched him up and ate him. 😩
Ghost shrimp is a general name. Most in the aquarium trade are Paleomonetes species. Macrobrachium are almost identical but do prey on fish and what I believe you had.
I bought a couple dozen ghost shrimp for my guppy tank. One of them was bigger than the rest and kind of brown, but I figured it was just a darker morph or something. Then half the shrimp and four of my guppies died over the course of 2 weeks. My tank is very heavily planted, so it took me forever to catch the brown "ghost" but once I did and put it in another tank, I've had no deaths.
Probably a Macrobrachium. They grow to enormous sizes and are quite aggressive. Learned it the hard way.
I love how it unintentionally started out like a rap haha
Shelilla you must’ve been so high when you said this I’m baked too tho 4/20 is my homie on gawd no cap for real bruh on my momma ya dig?
Icey Reelz I’m high
Wtf u talkin about? Haha ??
Not even shit close to a rap
This bangs. He do be rhyming ghost shrimp with ghost shrimp a lot doe
I learnt this the hard way. Had a group of 8 baby julii cories. I was worming one of my other tanks so threw 3 RCS in with the fry cause hey, they’re shrimp, they’re no danger to anything! I only have 1 fry left now...
" In this clip, you can see that the baby Angel's eyeballs were stuck with fear"... That is classic right there
Its the Ghost Shrimp Killah
One of mine snagged a small neon tetra last night, which I saw and freed it. Then today, it caught it again and it was half eaten by the time I caught it. First time I’ve ever seen it. Decided to move the ghost shrimp into their own tank.
You probably have a whisker shrimp buddy. A ghost shrimp isn’t going to continuously go after a tetra like that…
Some of those shrimp aren't ghost shrimp (Palaemonetes)... that is part of the problem. They might be whiskers or prawn... but I don't think ghost shrimp should have any markings on their backs.
It's been almost 20 yrs or so since I had them, but iirc, they were like glass. I don't recall any coloring on mine. Always thought they looked cool with my glass hatchet fish. Was looking forward to getting them again, since I am getting back into the hobby, but not if they are gonna be like in this video.
Ghost shrimp are normally peaceful. Whisker shrimp are super aggressive. They look almost the same except whisker shrimp have a banding on them while ghost shrimp are mostly clear, no color nor spots. Pet stores sometimes name them as the same thing, but they are infact different. Just make sure to properly tell if your shrimp are truly ghost shrimp, because whisker shrimp will attack almost any fish you have in your tank. Ghost shrimp will eat dead fish, but they normally never attack.
My dwarf puffer and sparkling gourami hunts even the bigger ghost shrimp (my dwarf puffer and sparkling gouramis grew up together). They work as supplementary food in my display tank.
My Japanese Ricefish who are docile (and smaller than them) don't seem to be bothered by the ghost shrimp at all - they even steal or squabble over what my ghost shrimp finds.
I learned that they also can jump out of the tank no matter how shallow or deep the water is from the edge of the tank. I find dried up shrimp outside the tank whenever I do chores around the tank.
My ghost shrimp hunts my adult guppies not even kidding. I thought the fishes died due to stress or something so i used the test kit but everything was almost 0ppm. Then to my horror i saw a tiny ghost shrimp drag my adult female guppy by the tail and started eating it alive. Then by the time i was able to get it out half of the head was gone and all the fins chewed off. The fish was still alive and flipping around so i ended its misery. They even bothered my baby bristlenose pleco but i quickly removed it. The tank is a 50 gallon btw only about 10 ghost shrimp 4 guppys that all died. Like wtf dude
@@hnewc1919 this was when I had around a year of experience in aquariums I have almost 5 to 6 years now and I can remember that the shrimps were hunting the guppies, I would turn on the lights only to find shrimp jumping and clawing at sleeping guppies and their fins shredded.
@@hnewc1919 besides the original video and comment and mine were about ghost shrimps not whether my parameters were causing the death of my fish.
@@hnewc1919 cheers mate
I had a pretty bad infestation of Malaysian Trumpet Snails(MTS) at one point as they like to burrow and uproot all my S.Repens. I read somewhere that Ghost Shrimps hunt and kill snails. I decided to get some and see what happens. It turns out they did a pretty good job of hunting all the MTS within a week. Later when I wanted to clear them out, I made a DIY shrimp trap from a plastic bottle with some fish food in it and got rid of all the Ghost Shrimps!
My worst nightmare is those mts, bladder snails are fine, I'll actively cultivate ramshorns, but the mts are repulsive.
@@voluntaryismistheanswer ye they are really small to spot and multiply like wildfire
IV being watching your stuff for nearly 2 years I think but I only got active with me channel about a year but I keep over watching yr vids just top quality .
Yes these ghost shrimps are predators! I have a pair of ghost shrimps. I kept them along with betta and a pair of zebra barb. Few days later, betta fish was hunted by shrimps and by morning I found half body of betta fish and shrimps ate it.
Next day one zebra barb was vanished from my tank and now I know who did it.
Hey i have a doubt, are only ghost shrimps predators or all shrimps? I need a cleanup crew for my betta fry tank and it's hard to get snails here
@@simbasait4878 Other shrimps usually don't grow big, but ghost shrimps can grow decent size to hunt down betta size fishes. Even though, shrimps for a betta fry tank is not advisable!
@@sumanm2326 okay thanks a lot, i will find some ramshorn or black helmet snails then i guess
This is a year old,but you probably didn't have ghost shrimp,a similar species that becomes very large is sadly easily confused with ghost shrimp,so you may end up buying it on accident.
Thanks for the info. I was about to put ghost shrimp in my molly fry tank
I got some whisker shrimp in my ghost shrimp batch. And it looked just like my ghost shrimp other than a few lines. And it eventually got way bigger. Maybe u got a long arm(whisker shrimp) in your batch too? Idk ur more of an expert than me. Just a thought
Thanks for posting this. I bought ghost shrimp and they are killing my guppy fry and eating them. A couple go missing every night and the shrimp are eating them in the mornings. I even caught one of the vicious monsters holding on to the tail of an adult and being drug around the tank by the guppy trying to fling it off. Most stuff online claims this doesn’t happen and I am crazy. Glad to see others have seen it too
Those ghost shrimps will eat each other too - the larger ones hunting down the smaller ones.
Agreed, took me a bit to realize they were attacking my betta.
I kept them all tgt and my Betta and one day I bought some to keep and recently saw them suddenly fighting. I was like wtf so I bought another tank to put the shrimp there and bought 4 guppies and one of them literally disappear and the other one died. I think I will just keep them somewhere else
I have them with guppy fry and guppies, danios. But I’ve luckily not had any issues yet. It’s only temporary as I’ve got 12 rili shrimp of different colors and normal cherry shrimp and 2 of the red rilis are pregnant. So once I have a bigger colony which is soon I’ll be able to remove ghost shrimp from the equation. Definitely worth knowing tho!
They might be whisker shrimps... they look nearly the same but a lot aggressive... had many of my small fishes killed by them before I found about them and moved them to separate tank....
I noticed the shrimp are missing the ghost bands.
The comments section is literally *who's gonna tell the most scary story?*
I agree with your video. I’ve found out that the larger ones also exhibit cannibalism, even though there’s plenty of algae to eat. A bigger ghost shrimp will sometimes hunt down and eat the smaller ones.
They prefer meat....
Thanks for posting this! I was thinking of adding some shrimp to my fish tank. I have never kept shrimp before but heard they make great clean up crews and they're kind of cool. I assumed they would only go after fish/fish fry if they weren't getting enough food which doesn't seem to be the case here. I just bought three of these guys but haven't put them in my tank yet. I have fry and some smaller fish and am thinking now I will hold off on adding them. Not sure what to do with them. They're just staring at me from their holding container looking so innocent. LOL!
Apparently they are a different species or so.ething?
Never put fry with anything else. That's why I put my pregnant ghost shrimp in her own temporary bowl. Babies should always be kept alone, my mom to be has her own air and everything till she drops her fry. Then she will be put with my betta and tetras while the babies stay safe in the grow out bowl. If I ever breed my other fish, there babies will be in a separate tank.
Not exactly true, snails are just perfect for baby fishes
That's the shrimp getting revenge LOL
I've had a large ghost shrimp (marine but looks exactly the same) take down a bangaii cardinal. I saw it happen and was able to use my pipet to blow him off of the fish! He had dragged it under the coral rocks, so I was fortunate. It went straight back to the rockpol I caught it from after that!
Nathan Explosion: *_-BRUTAL-_*
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Moving up the food chain
Had one eat my cherry shrimp today. Ghost shrimp are now feeders in my big tank 😋
I used to have the same situation and didnt know why. All of my fish died only at night time.
As a kid I had ghost shrimp with some small fantail goldfish. One day I found the shrimp attached to the tail eating all the way to the muscle. It was very sad as I lost that fish, I never thought that could happen.
I have a monster ghost who’s been hunting my neon tetras at night. It’s wild
It's true guys
I got some ghost shrimp and I think they are eating my endlers 😕 well they are going into the 75gal for dinner now.
My ghost shrimp literally murdered my plecos and guppies
Taeseong Lee Mine recently ate one of my tetras. I had to put it in a separate tank. Not sure what to do with it now
Dylan Hovey eradicate it
Anonymous Creature no these tiny shrimp are just thugs, plain and simple. I had one jump out my tank and ate my pitbull! They’re wild, I don’t recommend keeping them with other animals around. Hell, I’ve heard stories of them eating their owners.. be careful out there.
Mine ate 2 of my emperor tetras
Dylan Hovey mine ate two of my tetras I don’t know what to do with it either I was thinking about starving it
At night when my gold fish are sleeping they go after they're fins if they are hanging in shrimp cove. (That's what I call the ship wreck ornament where I let all the shrimps loose they all hang out in there)
I just watch a video that said there are a few shrimp that can be called glass shrimp, some are larger and will eat small fish.
Cricket's of the sea
Where did you geth that honey gourami! Its so vibrant I want to get a red one soon.
I have a few in a 2foot tank with some guppies. I have noticed that a couple guppies have “died” and the shrimp have been eating them. Do you think they could have killed them or are the guppies to big of a match with the shrimp?
They could have killed them. Several people in the comments here have similar stories, and I've lost a few medium sized guppies myself to these shrimp. Even caught one shrimp hunting one day, standing up on top of a plant trying to swipe at and grab some of the smaller guppies. People at the LFS say that ghost shrimp shouldn't be able to catch and kill a healthy fish and that they're mostly peaceful. But, I have seen otherwise. The neocardinia, amano, and other similar varieties are better in my opinion. I've had better luck with them not being aggressive or eating things I don't want eaten, but those varieties tend to be more pricey where I'm at and them being smaller and more peaceful, they also get eaten more often. Around 10$ea. for assorted rainbow shrimp from my local petco makes for some very expensive fish food. Vs 39¢ for ghost shrimp.
TLDR; yes. Ghost shrimp can be jerks.
I saw one ghost shrimp catch a Barbodes barb at the tail. The fish was almost 2x the size of the shrimp and VERY powerful swimmers, but it had to struggle a bit to get free of those deceptively thin claws.
Im traumatized right now😭 I was about to feed my fish and I noticed a horrible image of one of my favorite beautiful fish being held by the shrimp underneath a piece of wood and I immediately introduced my hand and tried to stopped it and half of my fish bodywenton a spiral😭😭😭 and he was still alive🙈
I love watching your channel everyday keep it up man 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Wow so much information you know but yet not boring at all you should have no haters at all
Those are whisker shimp ghost shrimp have orange bands on their legs and antenna
does ghost shrimps eat snails like nerite ? etc
God I love that thumbnail lol
Yeah, it killed many of my guppies and also my rummy nose once I had to clear it out. Hopefully no babies of ghost shrimp are there hahaha
Your Koi-Angelfish are sooooooo beautiful :)!!! (I saw them in other videos)
Again nice video, keep it up!
In down south Louisiana we called them a grass shrimp
I know this is an Old Post but there are different species of ghost shrimp some will get bigger with longer legs these ones are definitely predatorial and can kill small fish like baby angelfish Guppies and other live bears
I had no idea they were opportunistic predators... My cherry shrimp are gonna be harassed for sure then
Well we can't just have an aquarium and expect not for the inhabitants to catch a snack if they can. That is nature. Not like we can put a sign in the tank and expect that to work.
I have ghost shrimp with my rosy red minnows
I recently started raising ghost shrimp and they seem to go after other shrimp, i just watched one shrimp eat a gold shrimp alive, they were roughly the same size to
Yes back with another vid
My 5 ghost shrimp just disappeared, u bought 5 today and now I don’t see them 😭
Phantom Shrimp Menace
awesome videography brother
I was thinking about getting some shrimp to scavenge my tank. My Corydoras scavengers ate a guppy fry but i've isolated them now. Now I'll think twice about shrimp. Thanks for this video.
Get cherry shrimp. They are a different breed of shrimp and will never try to eat a live fish.
Jurassic Tank hi, wondering do cherry shrimp eat fish eggs ?
I have a ghost shrimp who catched one of my small neon tetra. It was shocking.
have the same expirience,,, my ghost shrimp ate my beta fish, literally just seconds after i put them on the same tank
I don't get how they kill though because thier pincers are so small, maybe I'm in denial lol I don't want to move them ;(
They have a sharp barb on their head
Good Intro
They’re like a quarter at Walmart.
Guppy Fish in my state they are 8 cents each at Petsmart
Good video so if we have something nocturnal and eats shrimp I will be good because I have baby clown knifes
One time I remember a community tank I have a ghost shrimp ambushed 2 of my fish and killed them, one was dead in the morning, then I witnessed it hunting and killing another, never owned them again.
I just had a baby Molly die, and one of my ghost shrimp completely ate the whole fish. I can see it inside the shrimp
I didn't know they are good in fry population control. Thanks for the tip!
They are good way to cull the weak fish in tanks
I was thinking of adding them with my guppies but not anymore
Tap water or still water is best for the tank to keep in tank as tank water for the grass shrimp?
And now i can feed them to my axie with zero remorse
Can I keep ghost shrimp with crayfish or feed them to pet insects like praying mantis
Thanks
I spent 5 hours catching them and i got 26 of em now
My ghost shrimp is completely okay with my fish, my snails however, a completely different story
I have a 5 gallon tank. Thinking of getting 2 male guppies and 3 ghost shrimp as well. Is it going to overfill the tank or will the guppies eat the shrimp. I’m not sure what should I do?
I found i had 2 aggressive quite large ghost shrimp and they had ganged up on my pregnant Leppard tail guppies and like you said went for her stomach and killed her and 2 others
And 4 other smaller shrimp in one day
the iaaue is knowing what type of 'ghost ' you have ?
New sub!!! Awesome video
Ate my tetras. I feed my shrimp a lot but they eat all the time. -_- i even fed them extra before bed last night. Woke yo this morning and all my new fish were dead. Stomachs eaten out of them
Umm so should i keep gost shrimp with not newborn betta its not adult not baby something between,its female
This is happening to me as well with guppies and mollies. I caught them eating 2 of my guppies and about to kill my molly, good thing i can save my molly in time and proceed to evacuate all the ghost shrimp to an isolated tank. Funny thing tho the ghost shrimp did not successful in any of my guppy fry, just the adult ones.
I hate them I got them as food for my fish and there horrible and I can’t get rid of them I need help what will eat them
hey, so i recently got a betta fish, i want to get him a friend + something to go with him in his tank. but im worried the ghost shrimp will eat him, or he will eat the ghost shrimp. is it safe?
There is NO way a ghost shrimp can eat an adult betta fish. Your betta may eat the shrimp may not. Usually ghost shrimp are cheaper so if he eats one then he got a special treat and if he doesn’t then maybe try adding a few more. Keep in mind that it’s not good to add too many as if your betta does chose to eat them then he can overeat and become constipated. Also, bettas are less likely to eat ghost and Armano shrimp then others because they are mostly clear/lighter in color.
@@patcheslove55 hey i really have an urgent doubt, i wanted a cleanup crew for my betta fry tank and i don't have much snails around here so do all shrimps predate over small fish or is it only ghost shrimp
Should I be worried about 2 ghost shrimp living in my cherry shrimp tank, will the ghost shrimp eat the baby RCS
My friend's ghost shrimp ate one of his neon tetras :(
Like a monsters.i have 3 pregnant guppys with ghoust shimp 7 in 20gallon
My dad thought that the shrimp will get eaten by tje mbu puffer but it is dead so that the ghost shrimp is my pet
I had bloodfin tetras and I also had ghost shrimp with them and all the ghost shrimp killed my baby tetras within a few days I found them with there fins chewed off and still moving.
OMG, I searched because I threw some ghost shrimp in with my baby plecos because algae was taking over.
MY TINY BABY PLECOS DISAPPEARED 😢
my goldfish decimated an entire japonica population in 5 mins flat, feels bad man
Attack Shrimp!!!
GRRR-RRR-RRR!!!
im on time again for the 3rd time in a row ....lol
:)
is this only with ghost shrimp or other shrimp as well? i dont want to witness another massacre :(
ya bro. thats why when they in a tank with something bigger than them they are like oh shiiiiy