Shrimp suggestions

jweis · Post by **jweis** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:15 am

As you may have read on other threads I started I am setting up some shrimp tanks. I am looking for suggestions as to which type of shrimp. My requirements are that the shrimp must be able to breed in captiviity and they need to be pretty/colorful.

I already have RCS and CRS so they are out. I also have some OEBTs that I think I will try to capture out of my 37g and isolate them in a smaller shrimp-only tank.

I really like the looks of the blue pearl shrimp and I found someone who sells them out of Central VA.

Viktor suggested Green Rocket shrimp from Rachel. Any other ideas? Hopefully I'll be bringing the offspring to the GWAPA auctions.

halak · Post by **halak** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 11:45 am

Rachel also has green babaultis that breed in freshwater. She sometimes has other babaulti color variants.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:08 pm

What about snowball shrimp?

jweis · Post by **jweis** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 12:20 pm

halak wrote:Rachel also has green babaultis that breed in freshwater. She sometimes has other babaulti color variants.

I'll ping her about them. She offered some to me before but I didn't have space for them.

jweis · Post by **jweis** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 2:46 pm

Has anyone seen Sri Lanka Dwarf Shrimp in person. Below is a picture and the link has some info. http://www.petshrimp.com/Csimoni.php

EDIT: Never mind, I answered my own question. I sent an email to the guy that posed the picture and apparently all the colonies of this shrimp in the U.S. have died out. Bummer!

150EH · Post by **150EH** » Tue Oct 04, 2011 4:49 pm

Julie do you know what type of shrimp "that pet place" might have on hand? It might be worth a call other than that I would say keep watching the SnS at TPT, good luck.

Julie I found this site: http://www.alphaprobreeders.com/categor ... 26-Snails/
http://www.theshrimpfarm.com/ and here near the bottom of the page http://www.wetspottropicalfish.com/inde ... &Itemid=66

scientist0724 · Post by **scientist0724** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:03 am

I happened to revisit this thread, and I swear that some of my shrimp look a lot like this, though they were bought as ghost shrimp. Some of them have the same color pattern and it makes me go hmmm...

Arlene

jweis · Post by **jweis** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 3:39 pm

scientist0724 wrote:I happened to revisit this thread, and I swear that some of my shrimp look a lot like this, though they were bought as ghost shrimp. Some of them have the same color pattern and it makes me go hmmm...

Arlene

I'm convinced most stores don't know what they have shrimp-wise. I asked one employee for Amano shrimp and they said they didn't have those, but they had algae eating shrimp. Sure enough, they were Amanos.

150EH · Post by **150EH** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 12:26 pm

You mean the blue ones that look like lobster? Just kidding.

I asked for the heat resistant silicone rubber bands that hold PC bulbs in the clips and the guy told me those are just used for shipping and I could go ahead and throw them out after the fixture had been installed on the tank. I thought for just a second and said yeah they probably make them out of heat resistant silicone in case the lights accidently come on in the box, duh.

It's not just shrimp Julie, they can be clueless about anything.

msjinkzd · Post by **msjinkzd** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:29 pm

i have bumble bees adn tigers in stock now too, if you are looking to branch out

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