My blue linckia might have eaten my shrimp

[Mac Inger]

or not,..but its still a mystery.

I have 2 skunk shrimp, a gigantic blue linckia and a flame hawk. First i noticed that the shrimp were staying close to the surface behind the powerheads instead of on the rock as usual. I realised one of the shrimp was wounded. Part of his chest was sort of torn. So my first thought is that bastard the flame hawk. So i started constructing a trap.

The next day, the wounded shrimp is nowhere to be found. The flame hawk doesnt have a protruding belly, rather,.. the blue linckia does. Its base is all swollen as if she had eaten the shrimp.

Is that even possible ?

 

[racrumrine]

Very doubtful.

They don't move fast enough to catch a live shrimp.

They supposely eat some sort of film off the rocks. That's why it's recommended that if you try to keep one at all, you should have a mature tank with at least 200 pounds of live rock.

Unfortunately, even under the best of conditions, they usually don't survive in our tanks.

Best of luck,

Roy

 

[Mac Inger]

Roy the keyword is supposedly. So far from my research nobody really knows what they eat. I wasnt home to see it but the shrimp might have died and the linckia picked it up. So it might be a plausible scenario,..otherwise i have no idea what that bulge on the linckia was.

It does indeed sound unlikely.