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i just got a new shrimp and i cant tell what kind it is it is about 3 in long and it has long whiskers and and it is a female i bought it pregent will these other fish eat the baby shrimp and will the mom eat them if u know what kind it is is it ok to be in with a white and black frog and 2 black mollies

Is it see through? If so its probably a ghost shrimp, and yes the fish will eat the offspring.

yes it is clear what size tank would i need to put the fry in

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Here is a link to Ghost Shrimp, is this what you are referring to.
Is it the same tank in your other Topic posting you are referring to if so the Mollies will love them. As to tank size I only have Cherry red shrimp and I will that to others who have Ghost Shrimp.

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yes that is the right type of shrimp and yes it is the same tank as the mollies but the mollies have not picked on her at all but she is bigger than them and soon i should be getting a bigger tank so i can get them seperated but i was going to try to get 1 this weekend for just the shrimp but i dont know how many fry it will have and how much room they need to grow in

Just try another ten gallon for now. The fry can be kept safe there and you will also have some time to figure out what size tank you will need to keep them all

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well i dont need to worry about the fry my shrimp killed my fish

Ghost shrimp, as far as I know, are very small. I have never seen mollies sold at a size smaller than ghost shrimp, so the distinction that your shrimp is larger is unusual.

Your shrimp killed the fish? This seems quite unlikely, assuming your shrimp is a ghost shrimp. However, shrimp are scavengers, so will pick at the bodies of fish that are dead or dying.

And technically, baby shrimp are not called fry; there are various stages of larvae that have different names, such as nauplius (plural nauplii), a term aquarists often used to refer to newly-hatched brine shrimp.

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what are the other stages.jw

what size was your shrimp? weird that it was larger than the mollies unless they were fry.... I have heard of ghosts doing a bit of predetation but never killing full sized mollies. maybe you have a crayfish?

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