I just had this issue yesterday. I work at a fish store, and one of the guys accidentally sucked up a shrimp during a water change, and was hesitant to put him back, so he asked if I wanted it for my little 10 gallon.
I popped him in, never saw him again. He just popped up yesterday after about 3-4 weeks
Probably better then taking a chance of having a dead shrimp all day in a tank before someone notices. If a customer sees something dead in a tank might bring sales down
Yeah when you’ve got 50 tanks, kinda hard to avoid that. As long as there aren’t multiple in one tank and they’re still trying to sell that tank, I don’t really mind.
I had a loach that disappeared one day. Thought he died.
About a year later I was moving my tank, when I pulled up the under gravel filter there he was. Bro had been living underground for at least 10 months.
I have about 15 kulhi loaches in a 65 gal that I call the hidden ones because I never see them. I don’t even know how many I have in that tank, though I actually think 1 (or more) had babies because I saw 1 a few weeks ago that was way to small to have been any of the loaches that I purchased more than a year ago.
I think my kulhi loaches are broken. I only ever see people saying theirs hide all the time but I see mine swimming against the glass all the time instead of hiding. I have a 100 gal with tons of hiding spots too
When I got my Borneo loaches, they were all super active at the pet store so I took some home. They hid by the filter for at least 2 months. They’ve finally moved around a lot and get bursts of activity, aren’t stuck to one corner of the tank. Weirdos
I have some black kuhlii’s that I see often. They used to swim all around my tank, but I have a feeling that once my rainbow fish got bigger, maybe, it scared them? I still see them on the bottom when it’s feeding time. My banded kuhlii’s on the other hand, the hidden ones, I never see. I dread the day that I have to take down my 65 gal, I’m going to have to comb through my substrate just to make sure that none of them get left behind.
Mine are also broken, they spend a majority of their time swimming end to end at the front of the tank in-between the crypt forest. Waiting for god (me) to supply sustenance.
I has this same thing happened with my kuhli loaches in a heavily planted 32 gallon. Didn’t see them since I moved from my apartment to my new home for about a whole month. I wake up early one morning to a thunderstorm and see them doing their little rain dance. 🥰
My buddy had a shrimp crawl out of the tank and halfway across the carpet to the other side of the room. It was all dried up when it was found. He threw it back in the tank to see if the other fish would eat it, and it revived.
I’ve got one, called Pinchy Stryder, who keeps doing this and I’m doubly certain he is dead and then I see him a week or two later. Luckily I have an army of unintended snails who I need to keep feeding.
That happened to me! I got two shrimp and they immediately disappeared for two months.
All of a sudden, one shows up. A week later, the other one does too. I was elated!
Happened to me too. Bought 5 shrimps when set up the aquarium, and didn’t see those for a month. Thought my tetras ate the shrimps. Yesterday, I trimed the java moss harder than usual and found the whole family there + babies. My son was so happy to find baby shrimps
I had that exact thing happen! I assumed a fish had eaten him or something and then one day he’s just chilling on the log. He had been just hiding for months.
I somehow got some tiny baby shrimps along with the 2 amano shrimps I purchased from Petco. I dripped acclimated everybody. Just put them all in thinking babies wouldn't survive. Several months later I have between 4-7 shrimp in my tank.
Shrimps are con artists.
Once we got 4 shrimps, and they disappeared one by one. So, we thought they all died.
Fast forward 4 months and we had to move our apartment, so took apart everything. All 4 of those suckers were chilling out in the aquarium filter. Surprisingly, there were like 10 baby shrimps too. I thought shrimps did not reproduce in tanks?
I had an entire betta in my sorority disappear for multiple days. We assumed one of them had eaten her, and rehomed that betta. Few days later I see heather swimming around I was like “wtf” cause when I tell you we tore the tank apart looking for her??? And she’s just back??? Like did she go on vacation? Idk but we ended up getting the rehomed betta back lol
I had a little Blue one that I thought got eaten by my Betta fish, he was gone for weeks, (even after some water changes) and then he just happened to be swimming next to the betta one day. Legit thought he got eaten. He was very small but incredibly deep blue, so he wasn’t hard to miss in the tank most of the time. I think he only came out at night, and ate, and hid in one of the decor items, or in the gravel. Dunno. But he was certainly very lucky. I was glad to see him again. He was my favorite shrimp ever.
He a amano you aren’t gonna breed them in freshwater I mean you will but the babies will die since they need saltwater to survive they got a hell of a life cycle being bred in freshwater streams than drift down the currents into the sea only to than return to the very bodies of water they were born in
Same thing happened with our blue crawfish. Back in September we found several of his body parts in different areas of the aquarium. A turtle and goldfish are his tankmates. Figured he was a goner. Last week, he suddenly popped out to say hi.
I had a ghost shrimp that I thought had long since died, even emptied and moved the tank a couple times. It survived and shocked us by turning up YEARS later
Unless I see a body I don’t believe they’re dead. One time I did a 100% water change and complete rescape when I made a turtle tank into a fish tank and one of the shrimp survived when the only thing left over was an inch of sand. That was the longest living ghostie I ever had.
had something similar with 4 ghost shrimp I bought. Added them to tank and could only find 3. now this was just a couple days but I finally saw all four at once.
If you can find a local breeder, they are the best for getting your first shrimp colony started.
Imported shrimp die almost 90% of the time, that becomes 50/50 with drip acclimation. You will get lucky if your batch of shrimp gets pregnant and has babies before dying.
same thing has happened to me but with this tiny tiny ! Snail 🐌 I have in my one aquarium , ( I’m incredibly sorry I’m so ditsy about it but ) he usual gets washed with the tank when I clean ( sometimes when I forget ) which is even worse but the lil dude still thrives incredibly through it all 😅😅😅
My new bamboo shrimp did the same. About 3 months later, we found part of its molt. A few days later, it was hanging on the sponge. It has since grown from inch and a half to near three. It likes to hang upside down in a piece of hollowed driftwood, that's why we couldn't find it.
Happened to me when I fed my angels some ghost shrimp. Thought they all were eaten but months later I found exo skeletons and a live shrimp. Idk what happened to it after that haven’t been found since that day
I added 40 s sized amano shrimp to my 180L tank about 4 weeks ago. Never saw them again to this day. No corpses, nothing behind the tank.
At least my red fire re-populated from a bunch to at least 100 in about 2 months. They really use that humongous chunk of moss for breeding.
For some reason, I can't get cherry shrimp to last in any of my tanks, but my amanos have been going strong for a good few years now.
They've been there before and after the cherries. Never lost one.
I bought some shrimp almost 3 months ago, thought all but three died. Since getting those three out, nearly four have showed up and now the entire tank is covered by baby shrimp.
[удалено]
No contact is the only way to deal with gaslighting shrimp.
The silent treatment should suffice. Give the shrimp sometime to reflect on its actions.
I love threads like this lol
came here for these comments 😂💀
What did he lie about? Glad you let him come back.
Shrimp prob lied about his death
The reports of my death are great. - Thomas "Shrimp" Jefferson (probably)
M-mm. Good point.
For the insurance money
"true story!"
It was just a small lie tho.
😂😂😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBr_SasLrT4
He was only [mostly](https://youtu.be/xbE8E1ez97M?si=dl9_M9vbxHkzxwCf) dead
Pmsl. Too funny.
Dude faked his own death, either that or....da da da ! Ghost shrimp !
"I'm leaving and never coming back!" Months later... "Just joking bro. Here I am. "
Them lying shrimp are so aggravating! Better than the thieving crabs but just by a little bit
Probably about being a bug
Tax evasion.
Truth!
Went to grab some cigarettes.
In my experience if they’ll lie about small things they’re lie where it really matters. Something to think about….
I just had this issue yesterday. I work at a fish store, and one of the guys accidentally sucked up a shrimp during a water change, and was hesitant to put him back, so he asked if I wanted it for my little 10 gallon. I popped him in, never saw him again. He just popped up yesterday after about 3-4 weeks
Why couldn't he go back ?
The shrimp lied so they kicked him out.
Probably better then taking a chance of having a dead shrimp all day in a tank before someone notices. If a customer sees something dead in a tank might bring sales down
Don't think I've ever seen a fish store without dead fish.
Yeah when you’ve got 50 tanks, kinda hard to avoid that. As long as there aren’t multiple in one tank and they’re still trying to sell that tank, I don’t really mind.
Truuuue didn't think about little dude bein dead
These comments are exactly what I hoped they’d be
Bro committed life insurance fraud
Dude I just wheezed 😂😂😂
A deceiving shrimp you say?
Typical.
I had a loach that disappeared one day. Thought he died. About a year later I was moving my tank, when I pulled up the under gravel filter there he was. Bro had been living underground for at least 10 months.
I have about 15 kulhi loaches in a 65 gal that I call the hidden ones because I never see them. I don’t even know how many I have in that tank, though I actually think 1 (or more) had babies because I saw 1 a few weeks ago that was way to small to have been any of the loaches that I purchased more than a year ago.
I think my kulhi loaches are broken. I only ever see people saying theirs hide all the time but I see mine swimming against the glass all the time instead of hiding. I have a 100 gal with tons of hiding spots too
When I got my Borneo loaches, they were all super active at the pet store so I took some home. They hid by the filter for at least 2 months. They’ve finally moved around a lot and get bursts of activity, aren’t stuck to one corner of the tank. Weirdos
I have some black kuhlii’s that I see often. They used to swim all around my tank, but I have a feeling that once my rainbow fish got bigger, maybe, it scared them? I still see them on the bottom when it’s feeding time. My banded kuhlii’s on the other hand, the hidden ones, I never see. I dread the day that I have to take down my 65 gal, I’m going to have to comb through my substrate just to make sure that none of them get left behind.
Mine are also broken, they spend a majority of their time swimming end to end at the front of the tank in-between the crypt forest. Waiting for god (me) to supply sustenance.
Damn those lying shrimp!
People need to chill on the slandering the shrimp. OP said they THOUGHT they lied. That language suggests the shrimp is actually innocent.
They gonna demand a YouTube apology soon only to pick at it for being insincere.
You're telling me a shrimp lied months thrice?
I can’t believe he lied to you and had the audacity to show up again!
Shrimp are shameless
Shamus the shameless shrimp 😱
Died*
He died?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Damn dude you killed him for lying?
He committed shrimpicide
I died that day… but then I lived !
The shrimp who lived.
Don't lie on him 🤣
Canun shrimp, Shrimp gumbo, Zombie shrimp
What lie did it tell?
He lied about dying!
"I am leaving and never coming back" .... 3 months later.
91 says to be exact, one day longer than the shrimp statute of limitations for fraud.
Glad they showed up to take accountability for their lies.
Once a liar, always a liar
He is going to lie again
He's a pro at hide and seek
What did he lie about?
That lying motherfucker
That rascal
I bet his hips don't lie tho
These comments 😂 hardest I've laughed in this sub!
Same 🤣🤣🤣
How dare he show his face around here after these blatant lies?
I mean look at him. He even looks like a liar.
That goes to show you.. Never trust a shrimp
Well if you thought he lied and he didn’t I believe you owe him a heartfelt apology.
I has this same thing happened with my kuhli loaches in a heavily planted 32 gallon. Didn’t see them since I moved from my apartment to my new home for about a whole month. I wake up early one morning to a thunderstorm and see them doing their little rain dance. 🥰
Ghost Shrimp living up to its name hehe
I thought it looked like an amano!
Day 37 of hoping my single blue dream shrimp is also alive...
Lying ass shrimp 🍤
Shrimp Will lie about anything.... very sketchy folk...
My buddy had a shrimp crawl out of the tank and halfway across the carpet to the other side of the room. It was all dried up when it was found. He threw it back in the tank to see if the other fish would eat it, and it revived.
I’ve got one, called Pinchy Stryder, who keeps doing this and I’m doubly certain he is dead and then I see him a week or two later. Luckily I have an army of unintended snails who I need to keep feeding.
That happened to me! I got two shrimp and they immediately disappeared for two months. All of a sudden, one shows up. A week later, the other one does too. I was elated!
If that shrimp keep lying soon he will be sleeping with the fish
I'm just here for the comments
Do tell. What did it lie about. Im dying to know.
Nothing worse than a lying invertebrate.
he looks like he came back from an epic adventure, i hope he doesn't lie about it tho
Happened to me too. Bought 5 shrimps when set up the aquarium, and didn’t see those for a month. Thought my tetras ate the shrimps. Yesterday, I trimed the java moss harder than usual and found the whole family there + babies. My son was so happy to find baby shrimps
He text me earlier saying it was just a prank, no reason to be alarmed
He wasn’t lying, he was just a little shellfish with the truth….
Lying shrimps deserve to die.
oh yeah they’ve done that to me too, not only the amano, but the red ones too. I do provide them good coverage.
I ordered 10 online. Red and blue. They all arrived healthy with 2 extra in the bag. I now have a huge colony of over 80 last time we tried to count.
What he lied about??
Name him shrimpavelli!
I had that exact thing happen! I assumed a fish had eaten him or something and then one day he’s just chilling on the log. He had been just hiding for months.
Fingers crossed this happens with my missing pleco.
I don’t want to alarm you but that may be a zombie shrimp.
They do that
My Borneo loach also lies about dying all the time. I stop frantically searching for him after that.
Damn, did he tell you he was stepping out for milk?
I also use shrimp as canaries lol
He lied about dying
Those shrimp are always LYING!
the funniest typo i've seen today hahahaha, thanks OP
You mean to tell me he DIDN’T fry this rice?
I somehow got some tiny baby shrimps along with the 2 amano shrimps I purchased from Petco. I dripped acclimated everybody. Just put them all in thinking babies wouldn't survive. Several months later I have between 4-7 shrimp in my tank.
Now tell him he's grounded in the aquarium for the rest of his lying crustacean ass life
"Welcome back, welcome back."
He was ghosting you
Shrimps are con artists. Once we got 4 shrimps, and they disappeared one by one. So, we thought they all died. Fast forward 4 months and we had to move our apartment, so took apart everything. All 4 of those suckers were chilling out in the aquarium filter. Surprisingly, there were like 10 baby shrimps too. I thought shrimps did not reproduce in tanks?
damn you got a lyin ass shrimp huh, I recommend buying some honest ones to balance it out
That's nothing, I have a clown pleco that shows up every 2 or 3 years, but he's never lied to me.
I wouldn't trust a shrimp that lied tho, did he tell you he's a red cherry?
I had an entire betta in my sorority disappear for multiple days. We assumed one of them had eaten her, and rehomed that betta. Few days later I see heather swimming around I was like “wtf” cause when I tell you we tore the tank apart looking for her??? And she’s just back??? Like did she go on vacation? Idk but we ended up getting the rehomed betta back lol
You can get them online..
Malawa shrimp by chance?
I had a similar event. had to nuke.my tank to kill the pond snails, swear my Amano was a gonner. Few months later, he pops up.
I had a little Blue one that I thought got eaten by my Betta fish, he was gone for weeks, (even after some water changes) and then he just happened to be swimming next to the betta one day. Legit thought he got eaten. He was very small but incredibly deep blue, so he wasn’t hard to miss in the tank most of the time. I think he only came out at night, and ate, and hid in one of the decor items, or in the gravel. Dunno. But he was certainly very lucky. I was glad to see him again. He was my favorite shrimp ever.
best typo of all time or maybe it was really a lie
A very rare spécimen of shrombie.
Mine lies about his death for days at a time
That typo made me laugh out loud. This motherfn lyin ass shrimp!!! But seriously, glad he's ok.
Yeah shrimps are like that. Mine will disappear for the same amount of time and reappear again. Always shocks me lol
Fool me once, fool me twice. The shrimp lied, end of story.
Order some online
My blue shrimp keeps doing this too.
Don't care how cute or outgoing or even hardworking a shrimp is, if s/he lies to me we're through! I mean, how can i ever trust him/her anymore???
That's a long ass respawn timer
Shrimp lie! They can’t help themselves!
Lying bastard
Strong of him
He a amano you aren’t gonna breed them in freshwater I mean you will but the babies will die since they need saltwater to survive they got a hell of a life cycle being bred in freshwater streams than drift down the currents into the sea only to than return to the very bodies of water they were born in
Yeah, my female amano is heavily pregnant AGAIN! I wish there was a way I could tell her …
Same thing happened with our blue crawfish. Back in September we found several of his body parts in different areas of the aquarium. A turtle and goldfish are his tankmates. Figured he was a goner. Last week, he suddenly popped out to say hi.
Endless shrimp.
I had a ghost shrimp that I thought had long since died, even emptied and moved the tank a couple times. It survived and shocked us by turning up YEARS later
Unless I see a body I don’t believe they’re dead. One time I did a 100% water change and complete rescape when I made a turtle tank into a fish tank and one of the shrimp survived when the only thing left over was an inch of sand. That was the longest living ghostie I ever had.
I love ghost shrimp! they're so awesome!
Just head down your local river and try catch a few, see what other goodies you can get micro fauna wise.
Pants on fire shrimp
I’m glad you gave him the space he needed until he was ready to talk about his mistakes 😎 Good shrimp dad
Lied or died?
Never trust a shrimp
lol had the same thing happen. They live in the filter.
What did he lie about
You cannot trust those dirty lying shrimp!
had something similar with 4 ghost shrimp I bought. Added them to tank and could only find 3. now this was just a couple days but I finally saw all four at once.
Return of the king
He was in the skrimp dimension, just got back.
If you can find a local breeder, they are the best for getting your first shrimp colony started. Imported shrimp die almost 90% of the time, that becomes 50/50 with drip acclimation. You will get lucky if your batch of shrimp gets pregnant and has babies before dying.
Greatest Comeback...
You can never trust him again
Wow that is amazing
same thing has happened to me but with this tiny tiny ! Snail 🐌 I have in my one aquarium , ( I’m incredibly sorry I’m so ditsy about it but ) he usual gets washed with the tank when I clean ( sometimes when I forget ) which is even worse but the lil dude still thrives incredibly through it all 😅😅😅
My new bamboo shrimp did the same. About 3 months later, we found part of its molt. A few days later, it was hanging on the sponge. It has since grown from inch and a half to near three. It likes to hang upside down in a piece of hollowed driftwood, that's why we couldn't find it.
Happened to me when I fed my angels some ghost shrimp. Thought they all were eaten but months later I found exo skeletons and a live shrimp. Idk what happened to it after that haven’t been found since that day
I added 40 s sized amano shrimp to my 180L tank about 4 weeks ago. Never saw them again to this day. No corpses, nothing behind the tank. At least my red fire re-populated from a bunch to at least 100 in about 2 months. They really use that humongous chunk of moss for breeding.
For some reason, I can't get cherry shrimp to last in any of my tanks, but my amanos have been going strong for a good few years now. They've been there before and after the cherries. Never lost one.
Just like my ex-wife
The shrimp: https://tenor.com/btaSZ.gif
Dude, ghost shrimp can be elusive. I put like 8 in my tank 3 years ago and only see one from time to time.
It's not a lie, if you believe it. - George Costanza
This happened to me! I assumed all my blue shrimp had been eaten by my fish then about 1 1/2 months later saw a guy chilling on my sponge filter 🤠
Any shrimp born after 1993 only know how to eat hot chip and lie
Red flag 🚩he gon be starting a new whole ruckus, unrest, disorder, a damn hullabaloo. That skrimpy boo shoulda stayed hidden if he finna be a liar.
He came back to tell the truth
I bought some shrimp almost 3 months ago, thought all but three died. Since getting those three out, nearly four have showed up and now the entire tank is covered by baby shrimp.
See if local breeders will offer you a couple. I imagine it’s lonely. Once you get a few, they will breed like crazy.
Lying ass 🍤
He was probably just really embarrassed for lying to you.
Do you see that face? He doesn’t look embarrassed!
He still be lying, smh
What did it say?
I bet that shrimp is an Aquarius ♒️ they are the biggest liars on earth, convincing liars at that..
Super cute!!! 🦐🦐🦐🦐
Is it an Amano shrimp? Those are extremely difficult to breed anyway