Lost shrimp in betta tank.

[Pleco1415]

I recently bought 2 Amano shrimp for my 3 gallon betta tank. After I put them in the tank I watched them for a bit then left the room. When I came back to see them they weren't there. The betta could not have eaten them because they were too big. I have no idea were they are if anyone one else has had this problem please tell me.

 

[Pleco1415]

I found I shrimp hiding under a moss ball but the were a outs of the other one are unknown.

 

[NYgiantsRP]

They can easily crawl out. If there is any cords, tubing, anything that goes out of the top of the tank they can escape. I have found them 30 feet from my tank covered in dog hair. I actually found one still alive, got him back in the tank but he didnt last long.

 

[Pleco1415]

Oh crap I just looked at my tank again and the other one is gone. i once had a flower shrimp that got out of my 29 gallon and I found it down stairs still alive. There probably dead now so I should go looking for them before they start stinking up the room. At least the moss balls I bought didn't crawl out.

 

[Pleco1415]

They can easily crawl out. If there is any cords, tubing, anything that goes out of the top of the tank they can escape. I have found them 30 feet from my tank covered in dog hair. I actually found one still alive, got him back in the tank but he didnt last long.

What do you think I should do?

 

[NYgiantsRP]

A tight cover. Its tough because they can get out in any tiny hole. Curiosity killed the shrimp.

 

[Pleco1415]

I cleaned out my room and found nothing. I found both of them in the hallway coming out of my room. They were dead so I fed them to my turtle. My turtle had a 6 dollar meal.

 

[Caliban07]

I cleaned out my room and found nothing. I found both of them in the hallway coming out of my room. They were dead so I fed them to my turtle. My turtle had a 6 dollar meal.

Have you checked the filter?

 

[Pleco1415]

Have you checked the filter?

There was no way they could have been in the filter they were too big. I found both of them dead in the hallway coming out of my room. They crawled out of the tank on a cord and made there way out of the room. I guess I learned my lesson never to buy shrimp again. Do you no of any other small algae water I can buy for the betta tank. I breed apple snails but those are way to big for the tank.

 

[Carnifex]

I had a ghost shrimp that was the same size as my betta. Little Zim killed it as soon as i left the room. I came back in the room 10 mins later and he is eating the legs off the shrimp -_-

 

[aquandrew]

There was no way they could have been in the filter they were too big. I found both of them dead in the hallway coming out of my room. They crawled out of the tank on a cord and made there way out of the room. I guess I learned my lesson never to buy shrimp again. Do you no of any other small algae water I can buy for the betta tank. I breed apple snails but those are way to big for the tank.

what about a nerite snail? that is usually the go-to snail for smaller tanks

 

[Pleco1415]

what about a nerite snail? that is usually the go-to snail for smaller tanks

I like nerite snails but my aquarium store doesn't sell them right now. I was thinking maybe a tiny pleco or something but I don't no of any plecos that stay small. In my 29 gallon I have a vampire pleco and it's huge!

 

[NYgiantsRP]

Nerite and shrimp are really your only options for that small of a tank.

 

[Pleco1415]

I've seen these things called Chinese algae eaters. Do you know anything about them?

 

[NYgiantsRP]

Nope. Way to big/active/bioload/agression for that small of a tank.

 

[Rebel1970]

If shrimp are excape artists then how do you keep them in the tank? What is the secret?

 

[Pleco1415]

Nope. Way to big/active/bioload/agression for that small of a tank.

I just searched up Chinese algae eater and that's not the fish I was talking about. My aquarium store had these really tiny algae eaters in a planted tank and I thought they were called Chinese...

 

[Ohsnapitscharity]

Were they ottos?

 

[aquandrew]

I just searched up Chinese algae eater and that's not the fish I was talking about. My aquarium store had these really tiny algae eaters in a planted tank and I thought they were called Chinese...

one of the smallest members of the pleco family is the otocinclus catfish, but it will more than likely starve to death in such a small tank

 

[Pleco1415]

one of the smallest members of the pleco family is the otocinclus catfish, but it will more than likely starve to death in such a small tank

That's it! Why will it starve to death?