amanos will eat it, but they prefer biofilm algaes first. If there are other types of algae for them to eat, they will eat those first. Same with nerites. Hair algae apparently is not very palatable when compared to other algaes.
everthing u know or experience with amano shrimps?
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cover the top of your tank- every hole. i had an amano that would get really freaked out by my curious gourami and literally jump out of the tank. I once found him about 10 ft from my tank. i've heard if water conditions are bad they'll do this also.
Mine love Crab Cuisine. It's pretty funny to see them swimming through the tank holding an entire piece of it so that they don't have to share with the cherry shrimp.
Whenever I add some to my tank, I always lose about half, but the ones that survive seem to live forever.
Whenever I add some to my tank, I always lose about half, but the ones that survive seem to live forever.
Don't be surprised to find him far from the tank :headshake2:. No lie, when mine got out he somehow made his way to the front door of my apt during the night. i found him the next morning dried up. i have no idea how he got from the tank to the door, thats like 20 ft easy! my feelings were a little hurt.
i've since decided amano shrimp don't like me and i shouldn't keep them. plus they're like 10$ at petco.
I absolutley love these shrimp. I find them more entertaining to watch compared to the fish. Always up to something, crawling on the most delicate java moss extension or zipping up to the water sprite.
so i decided to get three more of them from the same fish store and i paid 1.99 for each shrimp and i now have a total of 8 shrimps and there like 1inch in a half when i got them and will soon breed them.
The amanos are with three crystals, a big colony of cherries and three young BN pleco in a 29gal twothird planted with temp at 78 and ph at 6.5 to 7.0 and i feed them with hikari algae walfers and hikari first bites and i do atleast 30 to 50 percent of the water every two to four weeks,so what do u think?
The amanos are with three crystals, a big colony of cherries and three young BN pleco in a 29gal twothird planted with temp at 78 and ph at 6.5 to 7.0 and i feed them with hikari algae walfers and hikari first bites and i do atleast 30 to 50 percent of the water every two to four weeks,so what do u think?
When I was little I had an african clawed frog. We got it not realizing it would eat our fish and get big. It was also a great escape artist. I had this wonderful cat who never killed anything, but always cornered it so we could. It came in handy when the hamsters would escape. Well, one day, my step brother got up and saw the cat staring into his shoe. He looked in and saw this huge dust ball. When he touched it, it jumped. The frog had got out of his tank, went the entire length of the house, up two half flights of steps and into his room. More than 100 feet of hopping.
good luck with trying to breed them. Amano shrimp have to have a saltwater period to hatch the eggs. probably want to read up on the process, its a bit difficult.
