ghost shrimp???

[king2005]

King2005, Thanks for the info! I didn't know they had such a short life-span. I'm kinda bummed.

No problem. I currently have 1 in my 90gal & she's been in there for nearly 6 months!

Now there 2 classes of shrimp. Community & Aggressive. Any shrimp you see with no pincers, just tiny little feeder arms are community friendly. Anything with LONG front arms or claws are aggressive. Now the Banana shrimp have fan hands, they are also community friendly & soooo cool to watch!

This is a banana shrimp (fan hands)
http://www.fishlinkworldwide.com/fis...ana_shrimp.jpg

This is a rock shrimp (fan hands)
http://www.atlasaqm.net/images/uploads/zebra_shrimp.jpg

Found a nice pic of a ghost shrimp
http://collegeishard.tv/blog/ghost-shrimp.jpg

Oh I nearly forgot, Red Cherry Shrimp! They are small, they can breed in fresh water & they are pretty! Community friendly & they are small!
http://www.petshrimp.com/redcherryshrimp.html


Here is a nice website with diff pet shrimp
http://www.petshrimp.com/shrimpspecies.html

[lute]

WOW! Thanks for the websites! My Skampi does last week. I think he had been at the petstore for a while as he was the biggest one there. I'll have to try again. I did enjoy the shrimp as pets. They are fun to watch and are for sure more active than fish.

[king2005]

Shrimp, Crayfish & snails are some of my fav tank pets. I'm getting 3 Red Crayfish from my friend soon. Her's bred & she was hoping for some Blue Shrimp. But they all came out diff shades of red/brown. They are also really neat to watch, but they can be aggressive, so they need to be well fed (I use dry cat food as their meat source... no grains/chemicals). My blue Lobster didn't eat any of my fish & I think thats why, as her original owner got rid of her for eating the other fish.

[aTailOf2Kitties]

I bought a whole bunch of very small ghost shrimp to feed my pumpkinseed a few years ago. He ate a few of them and the rest escaped climbing up airlines filters and whatever else they could get hold of. I've had crawfish a couple times too. One lived in my tank peacefully with the pumpkinseed for many years until it decided to molt outside of it's little crawfish house... once. I came home to a messy shell and a fat fish. Both were very well fed ahead of time. I guess you can only distract natural instinct for so long.

[karyn674]

Indeed they are so funny!!!

was scuba diving this week in Gozo and there is this dive site its called shrimp cave and there are hundreds of them. They had blue tummies with red lines along their body. They are funny because some of them are bad tempered, they charge at you, when you point your torch some run away but some guard their territory! Lol! Funny!

And yes I'm talking about sea water here.

[lute]

Indeed they are so funny!!!

was scuba diving this week in Gozo and there is this dive site its called shrimp cave and there are hundreds of them. They had blue tummies with red lines along their body. They are funny because some of them are bad tempered, they charge at you, when you point your torch some run away but some guard their territory! Lol! Funny!

And yes I'm talking about sea water here.

That's funny! I didn't think of shrimp as aggressive animals.LOL