Bought some freshwater shrimps today.......

[pugsandseals]

Remember I tried cherry shrimps a while ago & they all disappeared???
Thought I'd buy some 'live food' freshwater shrimps today to see what happened (much cheaper than cherry shrimp for my experiment.
I can physically see the guppies & platys eating them alive!!!!
I thought they would be far too big to be bothered by them! Solves the mystery of the missing cherry shrimps but OMG!

What type of shrimps are they and how big?

We have a wood shrimp and he is about an inch and a half long, he's been in their for ages and been ok, we also have a amano shrimp, he's about an inch long, we see him once every few months, when he appears he's always a diff colour

But we do buy brine shrimps for or fish to eat, they're tiddly, unfortunately they love them. Maybe we shouldn't put them in actually, must be like a horror seen for our 2 big shrimps!

My cherry shrimp are too speedy to get eaten by my fish, maybe platys are better hunters though. I'm overrun with blinking cherry shrimp at the moment, I was waiting for the weather to get better so I could ebay some but I might have to just list them locally. Can hardly see the fish for shrimp at the moment!