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To my surprise, I came home yesterday to find one of my peppermint shrimps on the floor of my room! I had two in my tank and they were both very bold. They would actively compete for food and come up to the surface of the water, but I would've never imagined a shrimp could climb out of my tank. Has this ever happened to anyone else? I even have egg crate covering the entire top of my tank! Strange...

Is it alive? For some reason I thought they would die out of water.

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they most likely got startled and jumped out like some fish do.

They would not climb out of the water.

Edited by chucelli

That's the thing... I have "egg crates" covering the entire top of my tank. I dont think it would be possible for it to jump out and fit in between the small square openings. I think it had to climb out.

I've seen these shrimp jump around on the floor if accidentally dropped. So, perhaps it is possible that with a first jump it got stuck in the egg crate, then took a second or third hop and made it out onto the floor, and maybe even one or two more hops from there. I don't think they can "walk" out of the water. Just bad luck and took a bad hop is my guess. Alternatively, could it have made it into your sump or fuge or some other reservoir and jumped from there?

Yea, but my guy was at least 1.5" long... It's just hard for me to picture it jumping through the 1 centimeter opening. :(

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