Will Shrimp Kill My Fish?

As far as my experience goes, ghost shrimp are too small and not fast enough to kill any kind of small fish. A much more likely scenario is that the guppies were diseased or didn't acclimate right, died, and then the ghost shrimp began scavenging on the dead guppies.

Can you keep shrimp with fish?

Compatibility. Shrimp are great for tropical community fish tanks because they will not pester the fish that you already have in your aquarium – they will happily live amongst them and eat the food that they leave behind. ... Fish are not always the sole predators in a tank.

Will shrimp hurt my fish?

If they can eat the shrimp they certainly will. Even some of the obligate grazers will opportunistically mouth shrimp, which can be fatal. Particularly, with newly hatched shrimp, which are extremely small. This means that basically, any fish can eat them.