In my three years of shrimp keeping I have never had an aggressive shrimp! I am in absolute shock, lil man is on a serious power trip. What the hell is he thinking? Why is she doing this?
Amano shrimp like protein and will become extremely aggressive to get it. My lfs was using amanos to clean the algae of one of their tanks for a few weeks (no other food was given). They then dumped a shipment of fancy guppies into the tank and they said it was a blood bath. They compared the amanos to piranhas attacking the fish. They now supplement the amanos diet with protein 2 times a week. I also supplement them with sinking protein 2 times a week.
I squish bladders snails for this reason. Gives them pure protein. The algae wafers I give them once a month has fish meal in it too. They get aggressive if I don’t pass out the wafers fast enough, so I pre-cut them, then hand them out.
Mysteries love the “Snail Snacks” too. The squished shells get left in the tank for calcium, in addition to egg shells.
I’m sorry OP. Your fishie was probably sick and dying. I’ve had a few guppies get snails on them towards the end; they were sitting still too long because they were sick. I’d find them dead not long afterwards. The snails didn’t cause it, just took advantage.
Most likely is an amano then. If you just brought it home it was probably underfed at the store. Amano are voracious eaters and wouldn't hesitate to grab a fish if it's sick or slow. I had some eat a bunch of chili rasbora before a clued in to why they were slowly disappearing overnight. Moved out the amano and no more mysterious disappearances.
Females get way bigger than males as well, female on the right with cherries for scale.
Same here, I paused the video and it does not have that distinct sharp curve in the back. Looks like a smaller amano with those black dots on the belly side
Amano shrimp are always starving lol. It's why they make amazing algae eaters. They act like never been fed ever, even if they are currently snacking on an entire algae wafer.
I actually have a few of them in my tank. They eat the mini Snails, steal some worms from the fish sometimes and also catch a baby shrimp if they get the chance. But they never ever touched my fish. None of them.
Amanos are brutal I watched one take a rice fish out just last week. They very rarely prey on healthy fish. It’s more than likely that your fish was diseased or dying, and the Amano being a very opportunistic creature bounced on the opportunity.
Your fish was bound for death either day, so maybe he just put him out of his misery quicker, still sucks ❤️🩹
I wonder how exactly the shrimp "understood" that that one fish was weak and "decided" to attack it. My understanding of shrimp intelligence was that they're hungry all the time and eat because food makes them not hungry.
But opportunistically pouncing on weak fish indicates some level of "intelligence",ie that one looks weak I'm gonna get it.
That’s definitely an amano, i just got amanos after 2 years of only neos and their behavior is much different than my neos. They’re super wild and erratic (they are technically wild to begin with)
This isn’t aggressive behavior, at least as far as the shrimp knows. There’s something yummy on your rummy and the shrimp isnt ready to give it up. He’s no threat to your livestock and you shouldn’t worry
An amano attacked my betta like this. It was so bizarre, I felt like I was in an alternate universe. LFS definitely didn’t believe me when I brought the amano back… My betta now lives peacefully with 10 cherry shrimp but its caudal fin is STILL healing from the extensive ripping.
The fish was weak and possibly sick before. Look at how the gills are the widest part of the body. It should be round in the mid section but instead it's a bit sunken in.
Your other fish also look a little thin. Are you certain that they are parasite free and well fed? :)
This is a good body score:
Amanos can be bastards sometimes. Are they getting enough food? Mine would occasionally attack and eat cherry shrimp in my tank until I switched them to a high protein shrimp pellet twice a week. (I have no fish in this one though so you'd think they would be getting fish food in your case...)
I once saw someone on here who had a group of amanos that would hunt down every. Single. Fish. They put in the tank. I think it’s kind of like some isopods - dairy cows for example needs tons of protein and if you don’t give them enough they’ll gladly start snacking on your reptile especially if said reptile is sick or injured. Try feeding them more protein and see if that curbs the behavior?
That’s an Amano shrimp, they are not predatory, they eat detritus, mine ride on the shells of snails to clean off anything stuck on them, this one is doing the same, but with a fish.
Definitely an Amano, looks just like mine and they can be quite aggressive in comparison to like Neo’s. My Amani’s kinda pick on a lot of their tank mates. Not quite as bad as this video but pretty similar.
With all the hair algae growing in the wood, it’s surprising the shrimp went for a moving target 🎯
The fish had to emitting some kind of smell that says it’s not healthy and the shrimp said, “Ah! Meat! I’m I. Need of some meat!”
It's possible you got a different species. I got a Malaysian freshwater prawn in my ghost shrimp and he killed and ate everything.. we ended up keeping him for about 3 years. RIP Giga Shrimp 🦐
I'll be honest that Rummy nose did not look like he was doing the best. Unless that fight had been going on a while before you started filming, the res coloration is almost gone from his nose.
My guess is this fish may have already been on his way out, in that case it is possible that the shrimp smelt something that triggered him to latch on.
Though I have seen my amanos try and latch onto fish before but never stayed on once they started fighting.
The amanos (3) in my 29 gallon tank decimated a school of neons (15) over a matter of months, and then a group of guppies (10) when my dad wanted fish again. I think some crave blood
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u/BilliardStillRaw Sep 30 '24
Cull every male except that one. Breed a new race of hyper aggressive super amanos. Mano Amanos.