too much similarity... several cherry shrimp in my Hillstream tank, got eaten today...

[Magnum Man]

It's been several weeks, since I did shrimp cocktails for my fish ( a blend of several small ( brine and others ) shrimp, and bloodworm frozen cubes, thawed and mixd up in a shaker bottle full of RO water... the fish love these, and the Denison Barbs are particularly boisterous, this morning, after shrimp cocktails last night... even though small cherry shrimp are larger than what is in the shaker, I'm guessing the bright red blood worms, and mostly brine mix, is just too close to the young cherry shrimp, and I saw a couple of them get eaten this morning by the Denison's... they don't seem to bother the really large shrimp, but the young appear to be too close to their favorite meal...

I guess that is OK, as I just had another big hatching in my cherry shrimp breeding tank, they were all over in the tank, at last nights feeding...

 

[TwoTankAmin]

My experience is most fish will try to eat anything that will fit in their mouth. Shrimp would qualify. I have both the red cherry and the blue dream stains of davidi. The blues are in a heavily planted 15 gal. There is a single albino bn and a few white clouds in that tank, The shrimp produce like crazy there and are not eaten, There are also a few amano shrimp in the tank.

The red shrimp have been in a 5.5 gal. well planted tank for about 15 years now, The fish that have been in that tank included a few apistos, a few panda corys and CPDs. I have not had any fish in that tank for a few years now and it is overrun with shrimp. I am pretty sure the fish used to pick off some of the baby shrimp only. That colony started with a few shrimp long ago and they were always a group there since.

I have a few other planted tanks which have just amanos, But they are a bigger shrimp and more likely to eat fry than fish are to eat the amanos. I had that happen 14 years ago well planted in a different room. I parked a pair of bn in it along with a number of amanos. Th bn began spawning but the fry always vanished. Since the bn do not eat their young, it was when I discovered that the amanos can and will do so. I never took a single bn offspring out of that tank before it was repurposed and moved into my bathroom where it has been for many years now.

edited to add the word ahppen and the y to ears to make it years