r/Fairyshrimp

Sorry for the bad camera.

I was feeding the shrimp when I noticed a group of clam shrimp eating a fairy shrimp! Just the eyes, head and skeleton remain; and they're still working on it. I had only seen the clams filter feed and didn't realize they also ate meat.

I'm sure the shrimp was dead. I've never seen any tank member engage in predatory behavior, minus the males with the females😆

So far in the tank I have rock tail and spiny tail fairy shrimp as well as cyzicus pilosus clam shrimp.

The hounen shrimp (Branchinella kugenumaensis) i ordered finally arrived from Japan. It includes a tiny tank and everything. I'm not sure whether to grow them there, or to put them in the main 5.5 gallon aquarium once this batch of shrimp is gone.

I would have added some eggs directly into the community tank, but since there are so few cysts, I don't want to have all the cysts of different species mixed up. I'm thinking once the hounen have laid eggs in their species-only tank, I'll add some cysts into the community tank substrate mixture.

I am going to try these less common fairy shrimps. It's been difficult and expensive to get the traingle-shaped eggs. This was the last batch from a local vendor. I have no guarantee about the state of the cysts nor the number of them. They might hatch by tomorrow evening. Let's see what happens.

Hi Reddit,

I'm a beginner shrimp-keeper. On Wednesday May 6th I set up a 5 gallon aquarium. The substrate consists of 4 parts sand to 1 part peat moss along with a spoonful of azomite. In the tank I have nauplii of five species, four fairy shrimps and one clam shrimp.

I have fed chlorella. I was given yeast so I'll try that tomorrow.

I have not seen anyone else try such a tank. I thought it would look nicer having a variety. The downside is I that won't be able to distinguish species.

I have a packet of triop eggs, but I didn't add it as I didn't want predatory behavior.

Let me know what you think and if you have any recommendations.

These are the shrimp species I added:
Streptocephalus thailandensis
Branchinecta packardi
Streptocephalus sealii
Sirindhornae
Cyzicus pilosus (clam shrimp)