Re: [GSAS-Member] Shrimp Huddling at top of Tank.

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

This is also true.  It is almost all females at the top.


On 4/13/09 8:39 AM, "Paul Wallace" <pwallace@u.washington.edu> wrote:

> Shango:
> 
> Sounds like swarming where all the males are suddenly interested in the female
> and run around an awful lot.  If a female is retreating to a corner (males are
> typ. smaller) the males will follow.
> 
> Fun to Watch!
> 
> -Paul
> 
> On Mon, 13 Apr 2009, Shango Los wrote:
> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> So I noticed my shrimp were huddling at the top of the tank yesterday
>> morning.  I figured that something had spiked and I better do a water change
>> quickly.  No sweat, did a 50% and the fish who were looking ok to begin with
>> were totally stoked.  The shrimp still migrated back to the top though.  In
>> the evening, I did another 50% change.
>> 
>> Again this morning they are all huddled near the top.  All I can think of is
>> that something keeps spiking but that is awfully fast for anything to spike
>> after those kinds of water changes in a 2 year old heavily planted tank.
>> The second possibility is that when I put my logs back in (log!) they can
>> get closer to the surface and they are going there just because they can and
>> they like it.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Shango
>> 
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