African Filter Shrimp | Atya gabonensis

[roundasapound]

Well these creatures are not really being very cooperative!
One has decide to live in my sump overflow & no matter how many time it is removed it goes straight back in there, it is not actually doing any harm & is defiantly getting plenty of food.
The other one lives in the most inaccessible & hidden away part of the tank & is not really visible at all, I doubt if it would get enough food so we have now use a syringe & a length of air line to feed the bloody thing every day!
I am not the sort of person to give up on my pets so we will have to sort out a better life for them somehow....

This made me laugh so much. Is the shrimp still in the sump? Must be the size of a lobster now. Haha.

 

[foxfish]

Yeah I still have the one in the overflow, never really see it but, if I shine a torch in the box at night he is still waving his fan hands around 🙂

 

[Protopigeon]

I kept one of these before. Fascinating to watch but he only lasted about a year. I think i had possibly too much filtration on the tank....