Has anyone had or does anyone keep the cameleon shrimp?

I bought one for my daughters tank and it was quite small but the interesting thing that caught her eye was it had long pincers.

The next morning after putting it in her tank I was greeted with sone half corpses which were her black mollie fry. I then put in one of my tanks in my garage and now, a few months later, the thing is three times its original size an looks quite scarey

I have read up on it and its carniverous (experienced first hand) and was wondering if anyone had kept them and what their experiences were

Really sorry to hear about your daughters fish going off to fishy heaven! I had 2 chameleon shrimp in a community tank of tetras and neons... after they had tore my plants apart they started on the fish! The LFS said nothing about them being fin nippers let alone a risk to my fish... they ate everything that could get their claws on!

We rehomed ours into a tank on their own till they escaped and were never to be seen again.... word of warning tho.. trying to catch them isnt as easy as it may look.. the buggers jump out the net as fast as you get them in it!

Perhaps some red cherry shrimps for her? they dont grow any bigger than an inch... eat algae and not fish.. breed well and are happy little fellas

Hope this helps

Donna

Hi Donna

Thanks for your reply, to update you, I have taken the shrimp back as it was getting quite big and was a nasty geezer

My daughter had nicknamed it as 'Mr Big' and it was huge!

My daughter has cherry's, bumble and algae shrimp, and I have just got her two really interesting dragon shrimp (look well cute with really long slim legs which are hard to see so that it looks like they are floating in the water with their big black eyes)

Hoping that some of the shrimps start to breed shortly