Originally Posted by granzord
No bro i didn't add to tank like u i spent nights catching them and i left 1 mesh with moss and a coconut husk tied with moss as trap. They love to hide in them so bascially everynite i will shake the 2 item to catch them. I put them in different container to experience.
I try using dish washing,seasalt,tap water, distill water,mineral water etc. apparently they survive in all this water condition. Only for the dishwashing liquid and seasalt i keep adding everynite i got home. Until i guess i make it until rather concenrated for their gills to function properly and they drop death.
12 ?? Bro my 1ft i caught like 20-30 of them........
lol that a good trap bro, i thinking of setting 1 up with small tapole or dead shrimp if possible...but now my tank is overun by pest snails, today i saw hydra clinging on my tank...very tiny, white white creature with 3 legs...yesterday night saw planaria moving along the soil...then my dad came to me and say , let me rear fish....i think i gave up very soon...
I got my fair share of exprience with this pest/shrimp killer. 1 piece took out my whole batch of shrimplets and many adult. Hidden in the thick moss until one fine day I spotted it and remove it immediately. Reset my tank and waited for over a month before I start introducing shrimps in again....
Some shoot of that killer before I sent it to his grave.
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i got a headless R.I.P shrimp today...i dont where they hidding...but dont think own kind will eat the head....
until now i saw 2 bodies but i dont know left how many shrimps because most are on dw...sakura come out when eating time...but calculated roughly 10-15 choping on the food...other on dw or moss....confirm are the 2 ottos...fighting with shrimps for food...i believe i should got 30++ shrimps back then....
Destroy them at all cost to save your precious shrimps! I lost a couple of shrimps to these nasty fellows!
Cheers!
griffinkid
Keeping | Nannostomus Eques, Pseudomugil furcatus, Sphaerichthys osphromenoides, Pseudepiplatys annulatus and Corydoras hastatus |
found a baby cute little shrimp among the moss.....lucky for him, beside the next moss got a mean killer....with an adult shrimp..more lucky for them and sad for that killer, i saw him....like the rest of the nymph....they suffer the same fate...and this joker is more biger than the rest i caught....nymph lover pls stay out of my post , u wont like what i done to the killers...
i finally caught , which i believe is the last of those killers the biggest to date... i really hope so...total : 14 nymph...now tank very big and clear...shrimp happily swimming around in all corners....no enemies only crushed pest snails for small babies feast...
monitor 1 week liao...no sight of those nymph anymore...hope war over...ready for standown ....
war not over yet....total nymph kill /sighted : 15... today morning 7.19am...spoted hugh nymph beside shrimp driftwood us fiss home...shrimp happily eating mosura food nearby....predator nymph just beside looking for prey...too bad for him...his killer just managed to spot him....
clever pest...hide inside driftwood...but this killer also clever or the predator nymph damn stupid...just took out the driftwood...all shrimp inside just swim out....but that joker remain in there even in mainland...sorry for him , his head just facing his clever killer....with a pincer....his head is drap out of the driftwood....and to a instant death....thanks for that joker...i late for work....
Haha yeah! Nymphs are nothing but "hell' to both owner and shrimps =X
I think this is one good reason why i learned to keep my shrimps in a planted tank with only moss foreground and some moss tied PVC tubes.
It makes it so much easier to monitor any deaths or possible "nymphs".
Actually when these nymphs metamorphosise into the adult damselfly/dragonfly, they are very beautiful. I kept some of these, fed on small feeder guppies, and they metamorphosised into red dragonflies and blue damselflies.
haha! i used to catch dragonfly myself!
I agree with you that they are really beautiful=D
I used to tied a string to their tail,like a leash on a dog as I followed them around when I was a kid.
Not going to write how they ended up as in the end.
The male are usually more beautiful than the dull female.
They help a lot by eating mosquito and their larvae as well.
It is indeed a different story if they ended up in your shrimp tank.
I did suspect that some damselfly nymph killed my RCS in the pots that I had outside the house.
Not bothering much as they are just Sakura quality.
If they ended up in the painted red tank, it will be a different story.
inside my shrimp got a few painted red and a berried mama painted red....that a different story if her offspring end up food....i saw my us fiss got 2nd batch of babies ...all white and very small...1st batch has grown up a bit liao....but sadly those batch are sakura ....
i killed my 16th predator nymph just now...damn in my whole life because of those painted red....i never killed or massacre so many pest before, don't count army time when we slay mosquito....hiding in the moss wall behide...it think is must be very smart than his batch of brothers and sisters and same time ambused any shrimp inside...but very sadly this joker think is very perfect to hide behind ....but the wall is on the side and very exposed to its killer....sadly end up like it's 15th brothers or sisters....
i very sorry to those who rear dragonfly nymph....to protect my painted red at all cost....that berried mama painted red to be exact....
The nymph in Koji's pic is a damselfly nymph. A dragonfly nymph is fatter and more destructive than a damselfly bit easier to spot as they are big and fat.
Most of our tank are more likely to have damselfly nymph than dragonfly.
Nonetheless, they must be removed at all cost as shrimplets are easy prey.
Cheers,
Bernard
Kept (no more) Betta persephone, B. miniopinna, B. sp. palangkaraya, B. uberis, B. channoides, B. burdigala
Pseudepiplatys annulatus, Nannostomus eques
i think i got more damfly nymph...few are green in colour....but nevermind dragonfly or damfly...both are nymph....and if sighted in my shrimp tank....killed at sight....
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