- Joined
- May 15, 2003
- Messages
- 12
I unfortunately lost my first bimac this past Tuesday. My LFS ran out of salt water shrimp and my baby refused everything else I gave her to eat(crab meat, snails, clams, goldfish, anything from the fish market). While I was pulling my hair out trying to get her to eat, I came home on Tuesday to find her in the mandibles of my coral banded shrimp!!! Although my CB shrimp is more than twice her size, I thought shrimp were food not predators!!! Do CB shrimp normally hunt octopus? Or was it just scavenging and my baby died from weakness and lack of food? I need to know because I have a new bimac (one that eats goldfish like clockwork, she's eaten 3 in as many days already) and I'm afraid the CB shrimp might go after her! Any advice please, I like the shrimp, but I'll take her back to the LFS if she will threaten my bimac.