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    Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

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    Hi,

    Please do not laugh at my question.
    My office just bought 100 Malayan shrimp with many pregnant shrimps inside the lot. But in just a few days, the number of shrimps has decline to maybe just over 20 shrimps and no signs of shrimplet in sight.

    However, the sucker fish which is about 10cm in length begin to look very fat and healthy! It was previously very pale in color but now the color is very bright!

    So does sucker fish eat shrimps?
    The other mates the shrimps have inside is 3 bumble bee goby and some neon tetra.

    Please advice if the sucker fish is the culprit so i can get that idiot out of the tank.

    Cheers,
    Andy

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Looks like the chances of your bumble bee goby and neon tetra can be the culprit too. Not sure about the sucker fish though.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Did you cover the tank? Shrimps tend to jump when they are scared so you got to check around the floor maybe got many dead shrimps.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Hi guys,

    Thank you for the replies.

    bettafantastic > The tank is covered

    vernonlcm > The shrimps are quite large, if you ask me they should not be able to gobble up the shrimps with their tiny mouth.

    The reason i am asking this is because the suckerfish has
    1) a big mouth
    2) it seems to be in very good health (good coloring as compared to previous)
    3) The tetra and bumble bees are too few in numbers to cause this much damage in few days time.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Or maybe i have got very "caring colleague" who bring them home to shelter them as they are afraid the long weekend might cause them to go hungry.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Shrimps are very good at hiding especially when there are fishes around. However for shrimplets, the chances of becoming food for the fishes are quite high unless your tank is heavily planted.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    I think the bumblebees and Tetra are much more likely to be snacking on your poor shrimp than the sucker fish.

    Best suggestion I can think of is to feed your fish well, and give the shrimp more hiding places, but Neon Tetra and especially Bumblebee Gobies are not shrimp friendly.

    http://www.aquarticles.com/articles/...ee_Gobies.html

    Its also possible that your Malayans (although they are very hardy shrimp) died en masse and the survivors and/or the fish ate the bodies. Sometimes those huge bags of shrimp have fairly high mortality rates.

    They don't need to finish their shrimp snacks in 1 bite

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Hi Fuzzy,

    Thanks for the advice.
    But the tetra seems to be forever hungry

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    I took out my fairly large sucker fish and gave it to my other friend who doesnt keep shrimps. i think i lost my cherry babies to it. haha. now I only have ottos.

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    Thanks for all the advice and experience shared...
    But the "toad like" sucker fish has passed away yesterday night

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    Re: Do Sucker Fish eat Shrimps??

    NDC, the Malayan shrimplets are really tiny, almost like freshwater Cyclops size since they are pelagic at first, and then after the first molt they turn into miniature versions of the adults. You can easily miss them. In a tank with tetras and bumblebee gobies, the larvae will not survive.

    It is possible that the adults also died due to some other reasons and the sucker fish was feeding on their carcasses. Which might also explain why it looked so "healthy".
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