AverageWhiteBloke
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Just wondering if anyone can help me out with this. Was in Pets at Home at weekend and bought four "freshwater shrimp" To help clear up some hair algae. Didn't have my glasses so asked if they were Amano shrimp and the assistant said they were Yamamoto. My understanding being they are one and the same.
Anyway they got bagged up without me taking too much notice and when I got home realised there were two types. Too late to go back to shop and technically they weren't advertised as Amano. Can someone with more knowledge check them out please?
Firstly I have three of these.
And one of these.
The first look like Amano to me, the second looks like one out of this post https://www.ukaps.org/forum/index.php?threads/48904/
Just checking if the second is going to cause me problems? I have ember tetra and RCS in the tank and I'm trying to build up a colony so if this guy is going to start snatching babies or even worse adults he needs to go.
I have a friend who will take it who has some bigger community fish so no drama. If he's no problem I'll just leave it. Main goal is to combat some kind of filamentous algae without using LC. From what I understand the second shrimp doesn't bother algae much more food scraps.
Cheers
Anyway they got bagged up without me taking too much notice and when I got home realised there were two types. Too late to go back to shop and technically they weren't advertised as Amano. Can someone with more knowledge check them out please?
Firstly I have three of these.
And one of these.
The first look like Amano to me, the second looks like one out of this post https://www.ukaps.org/forum/index.php?threads/48904/
Just checking if the second is going to cause me problems? I have ember tetra and RCS in the tank and I'm trying to build up a colony so if this guy is going to start snatching babies or even worse adults he needs to go.
I have a friend who will take it who has some bigger community fish so no drama. If he's no problem I'll just leave it. Main goal is to combat some kind of filamentous algae without using LC. From what I understand the second shrimp doesn't bother algae much more food scraps.
Cheers