The Puffer Forum

I was up early this morning, laying on the sofa watching some tv, and I seen my retriever wagging her tail and going into "play mode", and my other little dog looking down at something. I figured it was a cricket, as they always seem to be randomly roaming throughout the house anymore. I didn't bother getting up immediately, but then curiosity got the best of me, and good thing it did. Upon closer inspection it was one of my Japonica shrimp! He was all the way across the room from the tank he was meant to be in. Don't know how long he'd been out, but I picked him up and put him back into the tank. He zoomed off like nothing was wrong.

I thought if anything were to escape it would be the red-claw crabs that are in there. One of the crabs was living in my hang-on filter, but then it went back into the tank with the other one.

So now I've got to worry about my shrimp escaping! That tank has one of those plastic condensation lids on it and I guess that makes it easy for escape.
It's always something!!

be glad you dog didnt see it as a meal. With my kitten around I couldnt imagine what would happen if anything got out of a tank

I've heard stories about chasing flip-flopping ghost shrimp down the hallway...

Oh dear! Glad all okay in the end!

HAHAH that's funny. I used to get ghost shrimp just for fun to clean up, and they'd hop out of the net as I was putting them in LOL

I've seen Biggie chase a few ghost shrimp until they jumped out of the tank and stuck on the acrylic light guard. I'm assuming he finally ate them or ran them off because there have been no sign of them in some time. Glad you found yours in time.

Ghost shrimp and Japonica's aren't the same are they? I thought Ghostie's were smaller, whilst Japonica's are fairly large, nearly 2" long.
Yeah well when I went to do a water change on that tank today, I found another one ready to escape. I will have to see about getting a better top for the tank.

Most shrimp are more than capable escape artists. Ghost shrimp and Japonica are similar in adult size,and both will leave tanks if they wish. the red-claw crabs are great escapees also - I found one more than 50 feet away from its tank, and it survived its excursion quite well.

I have never seen a ghost shrimp that was more then 1/2inch

These Japonica shrimp in my tank are huge, way bigger than the DP's. Easily 1.5" maybe more.

yes I have one and it is quite large.. and they can MOVE when they want to! On land it reminded me of a centipede, it was that quick!

Japonica's are Amano shrimp. The scientific name is Caridina multidentata OR caridina japonica.

Amano are much different then ghosts, but breeding is similar. Each's offspring are born as larva, that only grow in BW or SW.

That I knew.... and the funny thing is when I see adverts for people selling Japonica and saying how they will breed. Don't think so.

Ya, they will produced eggs, both of them. They will mate and get berried, but larvae start to die off..

Ah, well, learn something new every day, thank you Swimz$.