Hello

I've got 2 amano shrimp in a 50 gallon aquarium that seem to always be hiding. Gets quite frustrating because there a nice addition to the aquarium. Anyone have any idea whay they are always hiding and also any tips on how to entice them out?

Fish I have in the tank are:

4 pepered corys
6 green tiger barbs
2 balloon mollies
6 black skirt tetras
1 keyhole cichlid
2 gold gouramis
5 rosy barbs

Also I have the shrimp 5 weeks. I read they take a while to settle in but I would think that that would be plenty of time. Maybe their afraid of the keyhole cichlid? Any suggestions?

Hi ballyvora4,

They are probably intimidated by the fish. Shrimp are better off in a planted aquarium without fish, or at least very small, non threatening fish.

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Brad
The Shrimp Farm

Mine do the same. A few of them just don't like the light - it appears. I would think if you had a moonlight of some type they would come out under that.

Mine all hide too, but I just figure they're busy eating algae and cleaning the tank. My 20 gallon long has 11 Amano shrimp and I rarely see them. Sometimes in the evening I'll throw in an algae wafer or two and they come out to eat...

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20 gallon long:Amazon Swords, Ruffle Swords, Red Flame Swords, Fanwort, Wisteria,8 Lemon tetras,
6 otos, 11 Amano shrimp, 3 mystery snails, 3 Bolivian Rams, 3 black skirt tetra and 2-3 lemon tetra fry
10 gallon: 30 lemon tetra fry, give or take...1 gallon Anubias, Fish: 1 betta

I don't know.....Kinda regret buying the little guys now! I checked the compatibility with all my fish and all seemed ok. Guess there just timid by instinct. Might move them into a 15 gallon aquarium I have and start a shrimp only tank.

Was thinking I might not use a substrate and just have a big carpet of java moss and maybe a few cabomba plants in the background. Would that work for shrimp?

That might work, but the Cabomba is a heavy rooted plant and will need some type of gravel substrate.