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She´s checking wether Ms Amano is dropping some breakfast



I wonder wether the continuos "egg" supply saves the shrimps from being eaten...

Excellent image!

A fine example of how intelligent Loaches are!

That's a really great action shot, Wolfram. Barbels at the ready!

Emma

Thats a great picture

That's a nice photo. The shrimp dropping her eggs is neat.

Sorry about hijacking the thread, very nice photo. I just wanted to know if its possible to keep shrimp with clown loaches without them being eaten?Obviously, it's your picture that's tempting me to get some that will regularly supply breakfast to the clowns.

Thanks for your kind words

@ Casey
... Just to make sure that I don´t create a missleading idea, I don´t really know wether amano shrimps drop their eggs. In that picture it just looks like it, but she kept holding on to the eggs - the one "string" of eggs just was hanging down far. I´ve different females with 2 colores of eggs yellow and green, guess that´s the matureing status giving the color. I´ve read the amano larves actually develop but can not survive as they need salty ater to grow up.

@ Clowngirl
Typically clowns eat shrimps - actually love it. It was a gamble when I added the clowns to the tanks - shrimps were allready there, but the clowns were smaller than the shrimp, so the grew up together, perhaps that´s why in this case it´s an exception.
I guess the smaller loaches Kuhli, Sewellia... get to enjoy more of the shrimpeggs/larves, for clowns they may be too small, so they may not even see single eggs-I don´t know.

here also pics of the yellow eggs



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Haha...great pic !!

I've never see a loach
with his mouth so wide open like that...lol.

awesome!