Will Shrimp Climb Out Of The Water

[DeanoL83]

Hi,

I currently have some fry in a breeding net inside my community tank. I have purchased some red cherry shrimp and a few Australian amano shrimp and am waiting for them to be delivered.

Will the shrimp climb around the outside of the breeding net and into it and eat the fry?

Also, are ten red cherry shrimp enough to survive in the community tank with mainly livebearers? Or should I put the shrimp in their own net to let their numbers increase so at least a few can survive?

The tank is pretty well planted and has a few hiding spots, and a fair bit of java moss for the cherry shrimp.

Thanks

 

[Liv15]

Sometimes shrimp will climb out if they dont like the water but you probably wont get problems with cherries and amanos. Bamboo shrimp i hear are the escape artists!

 

[DeanoL83]

Thanks for the information, hopefully they won't climb out.  Do you think the RCS will survive or will I need to let their numbers increase more before adding to the tank?
 
Thanks

 

[Alasse]

I have RCS in with goldfish *L* They breed and multiply no probs.
 
I do however have lots of hidey holes and a number pf plants to help keep them safe. I'm sure my goldies pick off the odd few, but certainly not enough to slow the population down

 

[DeanoL83]

I have RCS in with goldfish *L* They breed and multiply no probs.
 
I do however have lots of hidey holes and a number pf plants to help keep them safe. I'm sure my goldies pick off the odd few, but certainly not enough to slow the population down

 
Thanks for the information.  I do have quite a number of platties and mollies so the shrimp may struggle, but I thought I would try it out.  There are quite a few hiding places at least.  
 
Do you think the shrimp would climb into the breeding net and eat the fry?
 
Thanks

 

[Ch4rlie]

Very doubtful RCS will eat fry.

As mentioned earlier, it's possible shrimps may try to get out of water if water parameters are not good, though this is fairly rare and extreme.

This occurs with most shrimps, bamboo shrimps are more sensitive so it's a little more often you may hear of them climbing out of tanks.

Some more info on RCS -
http/www.planetinverts.com/Red%20Cherry%20Shrimp.html

 

[Alasse]

I have RCS in my BN breeding tanks, they neither eat the eggs or the fry

 

[DeanoL83]

Thanks for all the information guys Can't wait for the shrimp to arrive

 

[attibones]

I attempted a cherry shrimp colony with two male guppies and a single platy. I never saw the shrimp. They always hid. Then I rehomed the fish and all of a sudden the shrimp started coming out and now the population is growing again. Amano shrimp will likely be fine as they are much larger, but I wouldn't be surprised if the mollies and platys ate the cherry shrimp.

 

[Baccus]

Which species of shrimp are you calling the Australian Amano shrimp? The closest shrimp we have to Amano is Typus shrimp otherwise known  as Typical Caridina or Caridina typus, or where you referring to Riffle Shrimp Australatya striolata? Both of these shrimp will walk out of tank if they are not happy. Not being happy can be caused either by not liking the water paramaters but also by other tank inhabitants. My typus shrimp love hanging out inside a huge hollow log, which means I only rarely get to see them, while my Riffle shrimp have adopted a large java fern clump as their preferred home.
Also keep in mind both species are migratory, and this may have some bearing on if they want to escape the tank. For quite sometime my small male Riffle shrimp (which all Riffle shrimp start out as and then change to female once they are around 3cm) kept getting into my HOB filter, I put it down to the fact that when I collected the Riffle shrimp they where in the process of migrating from Brackish to fresh water, and the running water from the HOB was encouraging them to keep moving "upstream".

 

[Tongue_Flicker]

They rarely if not, climb out especially in poorly oxygenated water which is like impossible in today's modern fishkeeping. However, they can jump out