Killer Ghost Shrimp!?

[friz]

Added half a dozen neons to my tank today and one was attacked by a ghost shrimp. I jumped from the bottom of the tank and grabed it by the tail and proceded to eat half the tail before it got away. Has any one else seen this?

[Chrona]

What temperature is your tank? Ghost shrimp get more aggressive at higher temps (like 78-79+)

[cocoa_pleco]

when i had a 10g freshwater i had the temp at 78F and a shrimp got a zebra danio

[friz]

78 degrees. My heater can't be adjusted.

[cocoa_pleco]

theyre more rowdy above 73F, so hes maybe the culprit unless the neon died and hes carrying the corpse

[Chrona]

That is most likely it then. A variable temp heater is extremely valuable imo. Doesn't really cost much more than a cheapie.

[cocoa_pleco]

Its kinda scary to see like 20 shrimp in a 80F tank swarm snails like little rabid kids to candy. GS are harmless at low temp, devils at high temp

[gm72]

Although I'm sorry for the loss of the fish, that must have been quite a sight!

[freshwaterfishlover]

Ha maybe thats why my neons were dieing. I had Neons in a tank with Frogs and Shrimp about 6 months ago and in a weeks 6 would be gone. For some reason I aways thought it was the Frogs, but could not belive it was the Frogs. Now I know it was the shrimp, even though I did not acualy see the shrimp eat them.