Would shrimp escape from a rimless aquarium?

[Patrick M. Bodega Aquatics]

Hello everyone, 

I have a very small 5 gallon rimless with one betta. I am interested in possibly adding shrimp to the aquarium.  Do you think they would climb out?

Thanks!

[Fonske]

I have ghosts and cherries, they don't climb out, but do jump out from time to time through an egg-crate lid. I would be more worried about the betta jumping out though. Takes just one fruit fly nearby... ask me how I know. 

[Andy's Fish Den]

I dont think that they would climb out by climbing up the glass. I have had shrimp climb out via the airline tubing that is attached to the sponge filter in a tank.

[Daniel]

When my rimless aquarium looked like this all choked with 1" of dense plants at the top,

all of the shrimp stayed in the aquarium.

But the other day, I moved the plants,

and this is what happened.

Actually, there were several jumpers (I think my cats ate a few).

None of the shrimp climbed, but their jumping abilities are positively Olympian!

So you can easily keep shrimp in a rimless (and presumably topless, although I do have glass tops for my rimless tanks, I don't use them) tank. Just make sure you have a dense cover of floating plants.

[MickS77]

I've had shrimp get out of a tank with a glass lid on it. Presumably through the opening where airlines and a power cord come in. I assume they crawled up and out. My solution was to stuff some filter floss in the opening.

Edited November 19, 2020 by MickS77

[Brandy]

Huh. My cherry shrimp are in 7 different lidless tanks. I have had snails climb out and the rare fish jump, but none of the shrimp have ever left. I have a betta in a rimless 5g. The shrimp in there mostly just don't grow very fast. He eats their food.

[Daniel]

1 minute ago, Brandy said:

Huh. My cherry shrimp are in 7 different lidless tanks. I have had snails climb out and the rare fish jump, but none of the shrimp have ever left.

My cats uses the aquarium in the picture above as a water bowl and I theorize that the looming predator is what startles the shrimp into jumping.

And the ghost shrimp I keep are natural jumpers. When I seine for them in the wild you can see hundreds of them at time leaping out the water ahead of the seine.

[teenage fish]

55 minutes ago, Daniel said:

My cats uses the aquarium in the picture above as a water bowl and I theorize that the looming predator is what startles the shrimp into jumping.

And the ghost shrimp I keep are natural jumpers. When I seine for them in the wild you can see hundreds of them at time leaping out the water ahead of the seine.

Could you record a video of this? This would amazing to see!

[Daniel]

Next time I seine for ghost shrimp I will get some video of it. But don’t hold your breath. I don’t have any current plans to go out to the coastal plain and seine ghost shrimp in the foreseeable future.

I want to continue my posts of collecting native aquarium plants in the wild. Currently if I go out now, I’m looking for plants. Just like everybody else, what I want to see is what plants look like in their native locations. I learn more from that than reading books.

 

[Aubrey]

It is hard for me to say if they climb out or jump out, but they can ultimately find themselves outside of a tank. I rarely witness the act and often only find the bodies. I caught this one making the climb. It wasn't successful, though it came pretty close by climbing the glass. I would make sure to keep some distance between the water surface and the rim.

[Daniel]

@Aubrey  that is way cool! Maybe more of mine have climbed than I realized!