yamato and crs - co-exist?

**Madmax** · 18th Mar 2009, 16:30

I got a 1 ft cube tank with about 20 crs. Some are adults while the rest are babies. There is some hair algae and i gotten some yamato shrimps to try to get rid of it.

Will the yamato attack the crs, especially the babies?

Thanks

**alex888** · 18th Mar 2009, 19:23

yamatos are bigger and tend to be more aggressive towards other smaller inhabitants. but if u place enough hiding places and plants in the tank and provide adequate food i think it shouldnt be a problem

**acit** · 18th Mar 2009, 22:25

Heya Madmax

Please keep us posted. I do not dare to put any other fauna in my CRS tank, not even otto.

If there are no casualties in your experiment, I may wat to put some yamato in my tank too

Cheers
Acit

**hann** · 18th Mar 2009, 23:20

Originally Posted by Madmax

I got a 1 ft cube tank with about 20 crs. Some are adults while the rest are babies. There is some hair algae and i gotten some yamato shrimps to try to get rid of it.

Will the yamato attack the crs, especially the babies?

Thanks

Are you feeding shrimp food for your CRS? If yes, I would not recommend you to introduce yamato shrimp. They won't clear the algae if they have shrimp food. Moreover, they are very good in snatching food.

**Aria** · 18th Mar 2009, 23:42

Originally Posted by hann

Are you feeding shrimp food for your CRS? If yes, I would not recommend you to introduce yamato shrimp. They won't clear the algae if they have shrimp food. Moreover, they are very good in snatching food.

Thanks for the tip. I was considering adding yamato in my shrimp tank to get rid of some hair algae but I guess that won't work

**Madmax** · 18th Mar 2009, 23:53

Ya...I fed shrimp mosura food and it was snatched away.

But after they had their full, they will drop it. After that, the CRS and ottos start to take over.

Are there any fauna that more compatible with CRS that can actually consume hair algae. I really hate hair algae. Will very frequent water change reduce it?

**Fuzzy** · 19th Mar 2009, 04:54

Originally Posted by Madmax

I got a 1 ft cube tank with about 20 crs. Some are adults while the rest are babies. There is some hair algae and i gotten some yamato shrimps to try to get rid of it.

Will the yamato attack the crs, especially the babies?

Thanks

Oh man, for the sake of your poor CRS remove those Yamatos, they're pretty much useless against hair algae as well.

Malayan shrimps are CRS Friendlier and actually eat hair algae (problem is, if you feed your CRS regularly, the Mayalans won't eat as much algae.)

I have 7 Boraras Brigattae and about 20 Malayan shrimp in my 2 ft CRS tank. Along with about 25 CRS.

Water changes will help, so will reduced lighting periods. And especially adding more plants to the tank to to soak up nutrients.

My Amazon frogbits are growing at an insane rate in this tank. They can cover the entire tank in 2 weeks. I thin them down to 1/3 of the tank surface.

Most of the hair algae has gone away, but it is not 100% clear yet, I made the mistake of not putting in billions of plants while I was cycling the tank for a month, and the hair algae has haunted me ever since.

I've just been throwing away tons of these frogbits because the tank is also infested with baby ramshorns. They hitchhiked on some plants I bought, I really regret not putting the plants into quarantine for 2 weeks first.

I can't put puffers in because they will kill my poor shrimp, and the Anentome Helena are ignoring them all because they are too small.

My secret weapon is a Japanese snail remover made by Suisaku that I picked up in Tokyo, been meaning to post pics of this cool toy, but too lazy.

Edit: Found a link to it http://www.gogoaqua.co.kr/goods/zoom...middle=&small=

**inque** · 19th Mar 2009, 12:41

got some cherries and yamato currently in my 3ft setup
i'm pretty sure my hair algae was remove by either one of them
( unless the snails ate them

)

**Madmax** · 19th Mar 2009, 22:34

I think I will get some Malayan. Where is the best place to get? Y618?

**skyluck2001** · 23rd Mar 2009, 11:01

Originally Posted by Madmax

I think I will get some Malayan. Where is the best place to get? Y618?

Try Aria. I just got 20 from her and my moss is looking good now that the Malayans are cleaning it. In LFS, they sell in 50s and 100s if I'm not wrong.

**jetset** · 30th Mar 2009, 14:28

Is this the hair algae that you are referring to?

http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...t=53077&page=2

I'm having problems with this. In the beginning, I've resorted to daily water changes and manually removing them. The algae situation apparently improved but I reckon the combined disturbance of daily water changes and my hands intruding the tank to remove the algae contributing to the death of all my CRS.

The only inhabitants of that tank are now RCS, Sakuras, Yamatos.

But to answer the question of CRS and yamatos co-existing, yes they do, but the yamatos are always first to the food. Unfortunately in my case, they do not co-exist as the excessive wc in my case killed the CRS.