Cannibalism

[Wolverine]

A curious question, do Periclemenes shrimps eat other Periclemenes shrimps?

Or are my eyes deceiving me??

 

[RICHinNC]

If they do.....how do they get the melted butter to work at depth??

 

[JustinW]

maybe they have cocktail sauce instead

 

[Stryker]

They come up at night and steal the cocktail sauce from Seafood resteraunts right on the ocean... they store it in little plastic bags they hide in the reef....

 

[Hank49]

A curious question, do Periclemenes shrimps eat other Periclemenes shrimps?

Or are my eyes deceiving me??


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It looks like the one being eaten has been dead for a while. the one doing the eating may have just found the other one dead already and not killed it. But the shrimp that I've farmed and raised in aquariums will eat their own species, live or dead. I've had banded coral shrimp in my aquariums and usually it gets down to only one unless you provide great hiding places. When one molts, the other eats him. p Monodon and l Vanammei will eat sick and dying of their species but cannibalism isn't near as bad as with macrobrachium Rosenbergii, the giant freshwater prawn.

 

[SFLDiver]

I -nearly- started offquoting you, but noticed you are quite ahead of me in farming.

I was gonna say, I keep mated pairs of Banded Coral Shrimp and folks are usually freaked when they see a molt lying in the tank. I find BCS are usually long lived (years) as long as they are a mated pair. Put an odd pair together, or a third, and the competition starts.

 

[Wolverine]

Interesting.. and I thought they only cleaned other critters... Learn something new everyday...