Yamato's dance

[michael lai]

Hi People,
Just wondering if any of you guys seen this? a male yamato dancing infront or around the female. He would like follow the female everywhere and dart here and dart there and try to climb on top of the female. I assumed they were trying to mate seeing the dance wasn't life threatening. Anybody else seen this with their yamatos? Curious

[kemp]

hmm...first time hearing this wor.
Bro, how u managed to observe all this? you sit in front of your tank 'whole day'?

Hi People,
Just wondering if any of you guys seen this? a male yamato dancing infront or around the female. He would like follow the female everywhere and dart here and dart there and try to climb on top of the female. I assumed they were trying to mate seeing the dance wasn't life threatening. Anybody else seen this with their yamatos? Curious

[Neon Shrimp]

If the conditions are just right in your tank, maybe you will see little amanos soon. They normally need brackish water but some people have reported seeing a few little amanos in their fresh water tank. Keep us updated.

Bye

[planted86]

If the conditions are just right in your tank, maybe you will see little amanos soon. They normally need brackish water but some people have reported seeing a few little amanos in their fresh water tank. Keep us updated.

Bye

little amanos??? do you mean yamatoes??

[Neon Shrimp]

little amanos??? do you mean yamatoes??

Yes my friend, since they are the same shrimp;

http://www.petshrimp.com/amanoshrimp.html

I guess we are both right

[richietay]

usually see them in search for food, til now still didn't get the chance to see them doing mating approach. certainly an experience isn'it!!

[michael lai]

I didn't get to see the whole ritual but after that all the females were full with eggs. Let me see if I can get this on videocam. The fact is I was surprized that shrimps have mating dance if that was it because I thought that only occurs with 'higher' animals. I also suspect that they were doing it in the open because there was no fish in the aquarium.

[thptan]

I've seen this behaviour with some of my Malayan shrimps too. They do a similar 'dance' despite the fact that share a tank with a 15-cm crayfish and about half a dozen guppies. I second the notion that it is a sort of mating dance.

Then again, these Malayans are about 7-8 months old and they are brave/experienced enough to do a lot of things in the open. Interesting critters they are...

[citizen]

I've seen this behaviour with some of my Malayan shrimps too. They do a similar 'dance' despite the fact that share a tank with a 15-cm crayfish and about half a dozen guppies. I second the notion that it is a sort of mating dance.

Then again, these Malayans are about 7-8 months old and they are brave/experienced enough to do a lot of things in the open. Interesting critters they are...

Wouldn't the crayfish attack the malayans?

[thptan]

That's the interesting thing...

At first the crayfish was quite enthusiastic about eating the shrimp but Malayans are fast.

It got a few but about 80% of the Malayans have survived over time and now they are brave enough to pick on the algae that grows on the carapace of the crayfish!

My crayfish is getting old and nowadays I think it just prefers to wait for Hikari algae pellets instead.

I reckon the Malayans must be comfortable with the guppies and the crayfish because they do breed like crazy albeit the shrimplets don't survive (they need brackish conditions etc.)

Cheers