Help Please! Amano Shrimp Eating Guppy Alive!!!

I've just found my yellow guppy half dead among plants with shrimp on it eating his tail!!! He was absolutely fine last night, he's not ill in any way. He l might have gotten stuck in a plant, but it did look like he was there because the shrimp was on him and not stuck.

My guppy now swims weirdly mostly with his head down, tail in a terrible state and looks like he's dying!!

I out him in a quarantine with air stone and small sponge filter (new so not cycled) and last but of TTS I had plus AntI finrot.

I'm worried though, that the shrimp could have caused some other damage.

What do you think? Anything I can do, apart from keeping his water clean? Any ideas as to why the shrimp repeatedly attacked absolutely healthy guppy?

Just when I went for quarantine tank (box), my partner witnessed 2 shrimps jumping on the guppy, pining him down and biting him all over.

Any help appreciated.

Sorry for bad pics. The guppy won't stop moving.

 

I would remove the shrimp asap. Just in case they can take down more. I think usually they wouldn't try to eat them unless they were already dying but I know there's one type of shrimp that will attack healthy fish. I'm sorry about your guppy, he doesn't look good but I really don't know much about how to treat him.

 

I would remove the shrimp asap. Just in case they can take down more. I think usually they wouldn't try to eat them unless they were already dying but I know there's one type of shrimp that will attack healthy fish. I'm sorry about your guppy, he doesn't look good but I really don't know much about how to treat him.

I've never heard before about any shrimps attacking live fish, but definitely not about amano shrimps. They have enough of algae, left over food. They even steal food out of mollys' mouth!
Unfortunately, I can't take them out. I don't have where. The only empty box I have is not qt for the hurt guppy. I have 3 amanos and I don't know which 2 were the aggressive ones.

My poor guppy. What can be worse than being eaten alive.

Thank you for your reply x

 

I think it's mostly mislabeled shrimp in stores labeled as "ghost shrimp" but they can actually be bigger shrimp that attack. So not likely that's what you have but could be possible. If you just do a quick google search, there's tons of people that have had amanos and ghosts attack live fish. Sorry I can't be more help

 

Are you sure it's an amano shrimp not a whisker shrimp? Amanos are usually totally peaceful. I've kept them with small fish and very small red cherry shrimp no problem.

An amano shrimp shouldn't be able to catch a healthy fish. I suspect it was already unwell.

 

Are you sure it's an amano shrimp not a whisker shrimp? Amanos are usually totally peaceful. I've kept them with small fish and very small red cherry shrimp no problem.

An amano shrimp shouldn't be able to catch a healthy fish. I suspect it was already unwell.

I was pretty sure I had amanos. Do they not look like amano? I've had them with guppys since start of June and they went along fine.

 

Yep those are amanos. Never heard of them munching on an alive fish though.

 

Yep those are amanos. Never heard of them munching on an alive fish though.

I wouldn't believe it either if I didn't see it with my own eyes. He tried to wiggle away from them, but couldn't. I pushed them away from him, he swam away a bit and they got him again.

 

I have sometimes heard of amano going after fish if there are too many of them in one space, there isn't enough food, or they aren't getting enough protein.
It's really really weird though

 

I have sometimes heard of amano going after fish if there are too many of them in one space, there isn't enough food, or they aren't getting enough protein.
It's really really weird though

I have 3 shrimps in a 10 gallon. Stocking hasn't changed for 2 months and I feed them the same. But who knows.

My guppy just died

 

I'm so sorry!!

 

I'm so sorry!!

Thank you. He's buried in the garden now. Would it help if I got some algae wafers for the shrimps?
Like this
HERONS Algae Wafer Mix 13-15% Spirulina FOR ALL BOTTOM FEEDING TROPICAL FISH Pleco Wafers Loach Cory Snail Shrimp

 

Mine prefer vegetables and shrimp pellets to algae wafers

 

I bought amano shrimp to add to my betta tank at the recommendations of lfs- two days later my betta was a total mess. I was soo upset my baby's tail was shredded to pieces that I picked every single amano and fed them to my puffer.

 

They keep eating my plants! Healthy plants! I thought they went after the bad leaves, but I trimmed them all and only the healthy pieces stayed in the tank and they ruined them all.

Mine prefer vegetables and shrimp pellets to algae wafers

What vegetable can they get, please?

I bought amano shrimp to add to my betta tank at the recommendations of lfs- two days later my betta was a total mess. I was soo upset my baby's tail was shredded to pieces that I picked every single amano and fed them to my puffer.

Oh my gosh, I would have never expected them to be able to hurt a betta!!! I hope your fish baby recovered!
I have only guppies, mollys, nerite snails and shrimps, so can't feed them to any other fish. I wouldn't be able to do it anyway. I hate them right now, but I couldn't feed a living being to another one. But I will definitely never get any more.
I much prefer my snails anyway, love those little guys. Shrimps remind me spiders and I have very strong arachnophobia, so not a good combo.

 

Dang, your amanos are really weird. It's thought that there are three common species of amanos being sold, with only one or two having a preference for algae. None of them should be going after fish or plants though, really odd.
They'll eat blanched peas, kale, spinach, cucumber, zucchini, just about anything.

 

I'm so sorry about your guppy. That's so weird! Generally, shrimp are scavengers and opportunistic creatures. They can tell when someone's sick and they help to keep your fish safe by eliminating the sickness before it spreads to the other fish. Maybe your guppy was sick and they just got to it before you could tell? Another explanation would be if you don't specifically feed them anything and just have them on clean up crew. They might try attacking healthy fish if theyre starving.

You can always catch up the shrimp into a small Tupperware dish (rinsed out really well) and take them back to the pet store. If you can't exchange them for $$ or another product, you can always surrender them. Most Pet stores have to take in surrendered pets.

If you'd like to keep trying shrimp, I've had a lot of luck with my bamboo shrimp. People say they're hard to feed, but mine seem to be doing good. They are filter feeders and don't even have claws, and they are really shy. They like to sit in the current of the water and catch food with their little fan-hands (they do jazz hands). They eat small things living in established tanks, and do extreamly well in planted tanks, but since it's hard to guage how much food they get, I feed mine phytoplankton too.

Another, similar canidate is a vampire shrimp (misleading name). I don't know much about them, but they're filter feeders too. I think they're more shy than bamboo shrimp, and have more colors, but they're also more expensive.

 

The keep eating my plants! Healthy plants! I thought they went after the bad leaves, but I trimmed them all and only the healthy pieces stayed in the tank and they ruined them all.
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What vegetable can they get, please?


Oh my gosh, I would have never expected them to be able to hurt a betta!!! I hope your fish baby recovered!
I have only guppies, mollys, nerite snails and shrimps, so can't feed them to any other fish. I wouldn't be able to do it anyway. I hate them right now, but I couldn't feed a living being to another one. But I will definitely never get any more.
I much prefer my snails anyway, love those little guys. Shrimps remind me spiders and I have very strong arachnophobia, so not a good combo.

My betta made a full recovery.