Mayaca fluviatilis eaten by Yamato Shrimps?

[eggz]

Got some M.Fluviatilis from Teo's on Sat.

After planting, notice some of the Yamatos hanging around them, a large one sort of munching on it. I thought OK lah, maybe it's just munching on some algae there...

This morning, wahlaueh! found quite a few stems of M.Fluviatilis almost botak! []

Anyone else have seen their yamato shrimps eating plants?


eggz

[eggz]

Got some M.Fluviatilis from Teo's on Sat.

After planting, notice some of the Yamatos hanging around them, a large one sort of munching on it. I thought OK lah, maybe it's just munching on some algae there...

This morning, wahlaueh! found quite a few stems of M.Fluviatilis almost botak! []

Anyone else have seen their yamato shrimps eating plants?


eggz

[eggz]

Got some M.Fluviatilis from Teo's on Sat.

After planting, notice some of the Yamatos hanging around them, a large one sort of munching on it. I thought OK lah, maybe it's just munching on some algae there...

This morning, wahlaueh! found quite a few stems of M.Fluviatilis almost botak! []

Anyone else have seen their yamato shrimps eating plants?


eggz

[eggz]

Got some M.Fluviatilis from Teo's on Sat.

After planting, notice some of the Yamatos hanging around them, a large one sort of munching on it. I thought OK lah, maybe it's just munching on some algae there...

This morning, wahlaueh! found quite a few stems of M.Fluviatilis almost botak! []

Anyone else have seen their yamato shrimps eating plants?


eggz

[Alfa Low]

Eggz,
Hi there, it was nice to meet you on last sat outings. I wish we can meet in the future outings again. By the way, there were bad records of Yamato on eating delicate plant such as riccia and mini riccia among our forumers. IMO, you can consider give them Alga wafer (i.e. from Hikari, JBL, sera......) to prevent them from munching on your plant when they are hungry or you can consider cut down the amount of Yamato.

Just my two cents of thought.

[budak]

ya, i find yamatos and fine-leaved plants like Mayaca and Rotala wallichi dun get along.

[hwchoy]

they also ate my eriocaulon at $5 a helping!

[YES]

my yamato also like to eat salvinia..

[ryan]

my yamatoes chew up my lotus!
and all my echonodorus!
and stargrass![]

[vinz]

Whao... this is way off.

Ryan, you sure they were chewing up your plants or the plants were dying and they were eating the dead/dying leaves? I have definitely never seen yamatos go after tougher plants like lotus and echinodorus. Your tank must be very very clean and algae free before yamatos will consider echinodorus lunch.

[hwchoy]

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On 10/8/2002 1:00:50 PM

my yamatoes chew up my lotus!
and all my echonodorus!
and stargrass![]
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ryan, they're your pets, you're supposed to FEED them [:0] Help! SPCA! Help! []

[eggz]

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On 10/7/2002 3:07:18 PM

Eggz,

Hi there, it was nice to meet you on last sat outings. I wish we can meet in the future outings again. By the way, there were bad records of Yamato on eating delicate plant such as riccia and mini riccia among our forumers. IMO, you can consider give them Alga wafer (i.e. from Hikari, JBL, sera......) to prevent them from munching on your plant when they are hungry or you can consider cut down the amount of Yamato.


Just my two cents of thought.
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Hey Alfa, thanks for the tip. It was nice to meet up with you as well. We should have these gatherings more often. I quite enjoyed myself on Sat. first time visit to Song Bros. (or is it Seng, whatever that Cory breeder). Woah! LeAnn really loves corys [:0]

BTW, the yamatos have stopped chewing on the M.Fluviatilis for some reason. Heh..heh...maybe they got a tummy ache . Some of them have been hiding together around the hairgrass and other darker places. I think they're starting to shed shell or something...real strange.

Anyway will try the algae wafers...


eggz