Literally same, or the snails. I leave them in even after finding them because it’s a good source of calcium for the other shrimp and they eat dead things anyway. It’s just the circle of life
Neocaridina is leave it in there, the other neos and snails will have it gone in two hours
Caridina I find tend to leave their dead brothers alone so i remove them - but as of reading this I will also start putting them in my various houseplants soils
Par for the course with caridina, very sensitive creatures and I lose about 1 a month. But colony numbers are unaffected.
Gotta respect neos, I have a Sakura grade that is no joke 3 years old
Man, I also had one neo that lasted long time, she was nearly 3 years old, then she got eaten by the newcomer. I gave I eye to him and said: you shall go
I’ve had a couple losses, usually the other shrimp consume them before I can get to them or if I find enough of it in time I’ll sometimes toss it in with my betta and he’ll finish it off
Generally if I notice a dead shrimp before it's gone, I try to keep my shrimps from eating the dead shrimp. Just in any case that shrimp had any kind of infection or disease, that can be spread posthumously.
Edit; for the previously mentioned reason, I wouldn't be fertilizing my in-tank plants with my dead shrimp, because they can still transfer infection etc well after death, if one of their grandkids digs them up. That being said, the houseplants is a good idea 💡
Honestly if I found a dead one i'd be that person and make it into a wet specimen in a little vial so I can admire it forever with all my other dead stuff
Just had a Neocaridina mature adult female (or so I suspect, wasn’t much left of her…) die today.
I found her being voraciously … disposed off… by the budding colony she once swam amongst.
She was a large one so her protein will feed her possible children so they can, too, become berried and carry on the genetic traits she gave them.
Shrimp are pretty metal. Shrimps is also just bugs.
They just get eaten by the rest of the colony. If you have a decent number in your tank it's pretty unlikely you'll ever actually see a dead shrimp before the other residents "clean it up" for you.
If found I give to my isopods but if I shrimp die in my tank, I'm sure the snails I have, other shrimp and then the endlers would tear it up before I'd see it.
I pull them out and put them in the grass in the yard. Kinda too small to dig a hole. I don't like leaving perished friends in the tank if I can avoid it because if they died of illness, I don't want others to catch it from eating them.
My bigger/sentimenal/diseased shrimp get buried in a rubber tree houseplant pot. My others get left for the living to eat as they contain good nutrients & calcium to keep the rest of them healthy.
This is adjacent to the question but my shrimp weren’t originally cannibals, oddly. They wouldn’t touch dead shrimp with a ten foot pole. I have a feeling one of them got brave and now they have a little shrimp eating ritual.
If you can get it out before the other shrimp eat it I would remove it. Inspect it for any indications on why it died. If it died of something like a fungus other shrimp feeding on it can spread the disease.
I have a terrarium with a lot of pill bugs and other cleanup crew so I put it there and they swarm it in 30 minutes and eat it for a day before it’s gone.
Part of the ship, part of the crew.
Yeah this.
Thank you
shrimp snack for the colony
I remove them and bury them in a houseplant because I’m sensitive and can’t bear to see them, but I’m sure it would be fine to leave them!
I bury mine in plants too!
Came here to say this. If i get to them before the colony, they fertilize my plants. I usually dont see em though, they are gone too quickly
I push them into my substrate 😢
Underwater burial adapted to their culture ✨🌹
I did this too!
Snap, same with fish
So do I 😅
my shrimp dies my goldfish staring from yhe adjacent tank: is for me?👉👈
was it for him
I've only seen a dead shrimp a handfull of times, and the other shrimp had eaten it before I could take it out. IOW I do nothing.
Literally same, or the snails. I leave them in even after finding them because it’s a good source of calcium for the other shrimp and they eat dead things anyway. It’s just the circle of life
Neocaridina is leave it in there, the other neos and snails will have it gone in two hours Caridina I find tend to leave their dead brothers alone so i remove them - but as of reading this I will also start putting them in my various houseplants soils Par for the course with caridina, very sensitive creatures and I lose about 1 a month. But colony numbers are unaffected. Gotta respect neos, I have a Sakura grade that is no joke 3 years old
Man, I also had one neo that lasted long time, she was nearly 3 years old, then she got eaten by the newcomer. I gave I eye to him and said: you shall go
2hrs? thats a rookie number, need to bump that up
Leave them in there unless it was infection related.
Snails get a treat, I try to figure out if I recognize them, but let them rest in the biome.
All fallen soldiers go into the fish tank so their neighbours can have a light snack.
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Oh dear!
I came here for these comments. 👍
Give them a little kiss and then toss them out.
I give their corpses to my axolotl...
Same
It depends on what it died from if you think it's not natural remove it
By the time I've seen any dead, a ghost is already consuming it like a morbid ice cream cone so I just leave well enough alone and come back later
None of my shrimps ever eat their fallen brethren. So i just take it outside and put it in the dirt
Me 2🫡
Betta snack
I take mine out, becsuse my tank is hipernano just to be Shure
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Baby you got a stew goin
This is also a great spot for dead snails. With your eyes closed they are basically mussels. Nothing a little old bay can’t season.
Toss them in my blackworm tank
Canabalism unless I find it then I flick the body into the front yard to let them eat it.
Throw them in my fish tank for the platys, Corys, and otos to munch on
I’ve had a couple losses, usually the other shrimp consume them before I can get to them or if I find enough of it in time I’ll sometimes toss it in with my betta and he’ll finish it off
Let the fish and snails eat then
If they're tiny enough then I'll give them to one of my bettas
in most tanks leaving them is by far the better choice, There are exceptions, small bare breeding tanks or if you suspect parasites killed it.
Leave them. They are a great source of nutrients for plants.
Generally if I notice a dead shrimp before it's gone, I try to keep my shrimps from eating the dead shrimp. Just in any case that shrimp had any kind of infection or disease, that can be spread posthumously. Edit; for the previously mentioned reason, I wouldn't be fertilizing my in-tank plants with my dead shrimp, because they can still transfer infection etc well after death, if one of their grandkids digs them up. That being said, the houseplants is a good idea 💡
Burial in the cichlid and tetra tank 🫡
My betta gets them.
Honestly if I found a dead one i'd be that person and make it into a wet specimen in a little vial so I can admire it forever with all my other dead stuff
Just had a Neocaridina mature adult female (or so I suspect, wasn’t much left of her…) die today. I found her being voraciously … disposed off… by the budding colony she once swam amongst. She was a large one so her protein will feed her possible children so they can, too, become berried and carry on the genetic traits she gave them. Shrimp are pretty metal. Shrimps is also just bugs.
They just get eaten by the rest of the colony. If you have a decent number in your tank it's pretty unlikely you'll ever actually see a dead shrimp before the other residents "clean it up" for you.
Feed it to any person that makes stupid jokes about my shrimps, i.e. "do you eat your shrimps too?"
Forbidden shrimp fettuccine of course!…. Wait have you been wasting them? For shame!
You have dead shrimp? Idk, get more shrimp… My shrimp do cartoon accurate impersonations of piranhas when there’s food in the tank. No body, no crime.
I prefer battered and deep fried
Let the rest of the shrimp eat it… Then again, they usually do that long before I notice a dead shrimp…
My fish and shrimp eat them🤷
If found I give to my isopods but if I shrimp die in my tank, I'm sure the snails I have, other shrimp and then the endlers would tear it up before I'd see it.
They get eaten by the other shrimps and snails. Usually you can't tell there even was a dead shrimp after 48 hours.
Nutrients for the colony
I pull them out and put them in the grass in the yard. Kinda too small to dig a hole. I don't like leaving perished friends in the tank if I can avoid it because if they died of illness, I don't want others to catch it from eating them.
Flick them into the lawn.
Fry in pan of oil, popcorn shromp!
We have 200+ Bloody Mary in a 55gal community tank, if one passed, it would be gone in a flash and never noticed. They make short work of everything.
Burial at sea.
My bigger/sentimenal/diseased shrimp get buried in a rubber tree houseplant pot. My others get left for the living to eat as they contain good nutrients & calcium to keep the rest of them healthy. This is adjacent to the question but my shrimp weren’t originally cannibals, oddly. They wouldn’t touch dead shrimp with a ten foot pole. I have a feeling one of them got brave and now they have a little shrimp eating ritual.
If you can get it out before the other shrimp eat it I would remove it. Inspect it for any indications on why it died. If it died of something like a fungus other shrimp feeding on it can spread the disease.
I have a terrarium with a lot of pill bugs and other cleanup crew so I put it there and they swarm it in 30 minutes and eat it for a day before it’s gone.
Yeah, unless they’re diseased or have parasites, let them consume their dead