Totally pissed with my Yamatoes!

[cbong]

My overgrown yamatoes are really getting on my nerves. Any foreground plants that I put gets chomped away by them. Tenelles, mosses, glosso ... all got chewed up!!! Tried feeding them with algae waffles but didn't work. Feel like putting all of them into solitary confinements.

[Laconic]

If u dun want them I'm willing to take them.

[ranmasatome]

give me.. ill take care of them for you..

[benny]

You might want to swap them for smaller ones. I had large yamatos terrorising my otocinclus too.

Cheers,

[kemp]

Bro, i heard malayan shrimps are tamer right?
I've got them in my tank, they would just leave my HC and my moss alone

You might want to swap them for smaller ones. I had large yamatos terrorising my otocinclus too.

Cheers,

[cbong]

set up a inverted pep-bottle trap to try to catch the yamatoes. had a bait in it but got many cardinals instead!!!

[aquarius]

A few years back i used to keep yamatos and once they reached a certain size they stopped growing. I thought then that they were quite big liao until i saw some at 2 of the lfses. They were HUGE!!

I also thought malayan shrimps were supposed to be quite small, maximum size that i saw was about the size of the cherries. But recently i keep seeing really HUGE malayan shrimps - even bigger than my biggest yamato i had before!!

Wonder what the farmers are feeding them?? Steriods??

Could it be that farmers are feeding them meaty things like dead fishes, hence the gigantic sizes now?

[XnSdVd]

Are you confusing them with woodshrimp?
That aside i imagine if you feed them high calcium/protein food, which is more available these days, they'll grow much bigger.

[kemp]

Check out Y618, they've got this bags of XL malayan shrimps...

I also thought malayan shrimps were supposed to be quite small, maximum size that i saw was about the size of the cherries. But recently i keep seeing really HUGE malayan shrimps - even bigger than my biggest yamato i had before!!

Wonder what the farmers are feeding them?? Steriods??

Could it be that farmers are feeding them meaty things like dead fishes, hence the gigantic sizes now?

[diki]

IMO, malayan are more planted tank friendly compared to Yamotos, especially when the tank has no algae and they prefer fresh food (no sinking food). No choice, if u also choose fresh food right?? I do have 3 in my planted tank (try them out before I throw in the rest of 20+ of them and seems to grow well there and no harm (I think) to my plants, except the oto as realize my plant leaves got holes in them. Somemore their algae cleaning skills for hair algae is very efficient. Everytime I go this probelm, put the plant into my 1 ft shrimp tank and should be ok the next day. They seems happy as well. My malayan can grow up to about a medium yamoto shrimp size. How big is XL???

[kemp]

about 3-4cm size

My malayan can grow up to about a medium yamoto shrimp size. How big is XL???

[diki]

about 3-4cm size

Wow. That is big. Can fight with yamotos now.

[kemp]

ya..it was huge~~

Wow. That is big. Can fight with yamotos now.

[cbong]

Managed to net 8 yamatoes. Several more on the run. Will try to get them out from my fern bush.

Anyone keen in adopting them FOC? SMS 97500587. Collect on Saturday (tomorrow) pls.

[nostalgia]

have smsed you!

[cbong]

Donated to a plant farm in LCK