bongo shrimp?

[fishkid6692]

i picked up a pair of them yesterday from my LFS and i wanted to learn a bit more about them(i know i should have done this before). i acclimated them and put them in the tank yesterday afternoon with there starfish and this morning both of them were gone. the starfish is still there but i don't see the shrimp anywhere. they are in a 180g tank so i know they can get lost very easily and they could just be hiding but don't they need to eat? why would they leave the starfish? if they were done with the starfish how will they find the new one i have in there? it's a sandstar so should i put it some place where they can find it? thanks.

-matt

 

[fishkid6692]

also could they have been eaten by my fish? i have a basslet that might have been checking them out last night. i also have a pistol shrimp.

 

[fishkid6692]

did some more reading one them and now know they probably got eaten. i feel pretty stupid. :/ i'm hoping there still in there hiding though. no more impulse buys for me.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Ok, long story short, these shrimp are not suited for large tanks. They get lost easily even in small tanks. I have 7 in a 29g biocube and cannot find all of them all the time. Also, it is very possible that a fish ate them. They are very slow and basically defenseless. I keep mine with a yashia goby and seahorses. That's it. Also, they will only eat microbrittle stars unless they are slowly weened onto something else.

Not trying to burn you here, just giving you the info.

 

[fishkid6692]

Okay thanks for the info. They were eating this star in the store so they gave it to me with them. The basslet looks fat and hasn't eaten today so i think that's what happened sadly. thanks again.

-matt

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Yeah, I suggest putting them in nothing bigger than a 29g and that's pushing it.

 

[mndfreeze]

Ok, long story short, these shrimp are not suited for large tanks. They get lost easily even in small tanks. I have 7 in a 29g biocube and cannot find all of them all the time. Also, it is very possible that a fish ate them. They are very slow and basically defenseless. I keep mine with a yashia goby and seahorses. That's it. Also, they will only eat microbrittle stars unless they are slowly weened onto something else.

Not trying to burn you here, just giving you the info.

CAn you share the info on weening them? I was unaware that bongo shrimp even could be weened onto other foods. I thought they were basically similar to harlequins where they eat one thing and one thing only.

 

[Bongo Shrimp]

Oh, I was only saying that you can ween them off of strictly MICROBRITTLES and ASTERINAS, to other stars like pieces of chocolate chip stars.

When I first get mine, they usually only eat microbrittles, not even asterinas. They will NEVER eat anything other than starfish.