Are ghost shrimp aggresive?

[trisha1972]

My husband bought me a balloon molly (I wouldn't have bought it) thinking it was a pretty pregnant fish (she was kinda gold and sparkly). My dalmations didn't like her, and my mickie mouses ignored her.

She was kinda swimmng near the bottom picking at bits when my ghost shrimp (only about an inch long) jumped on her! It got hold of her tail fin and chewed it pretty good (he got her up against a plant, and I guess she couldn't move).

Is this normal? I had seen some eggs attached to the ghost shrimp last week. Maybe because she had fry she was really aggressive? I'm sure that if the fry hatched out fine that they got gobbled by my dalmations.

 

[Undawada]

All shrimp/prawns are opportunistic predators. I know many types of crayfish, prawns and shrimp can't be kept with fish because they will kill anything they can catch. That being said, I've never heard of a ghost shrimp attacking a fish before. Ghost shrimp and Amano shrimp are considered to small to bother with community fish.

If your ghost shrimp is showing predatory behaviour, you'd best get rid of it or move it to another tank.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Are you positive that you have a ghost shrimp? Heres a link with a pic and a profile on them just to make sure you do have a ghost shrimp;

http/fish.orbust.net/ghostshrimp.html

 

[Undawada]

I suspect it may not be a ghost shrimp too.

It doesn't really change the fact you best move it! Shrimp are particularily nasty, and can kill things much bigger than themselves.

GL

 

[Sky042]

I can't see a ghost shrimp grabbing ahold of or killing anything even a neon tetra.

Though they make great cichlid food.

 

[trisha1972]

Yep, it's a ghost shrimp. I have three. This one just got nippy with the balloon molly. It was the one that had eggs so I am wondering if that had anything to do with it?

 

[Opcn]

eggs might make her hungry but not mean, I'll lay odds that that molly is/was extreemly weekended by some ailment. Ghost shrimp will chow down on fry but really cant hold there own against a molly.