ghost shrimp?

If you are referring to the ghost shrimp that are commonly sold as feeder animals, no they will not reproduce nor survive very long in any salt environment.
 
Sergio trilobata are a marine "ghost shrimp" that live in Tampa Bay; AKA Glass Shrimp. Then there's Lepidophthalmus louisianensis and estuary species. Cant tell you much beyond that.
 
I pick up "grass shrimp" from the Chesapeake Bay area near the coast every year - they're also used as bait around here quite often. They are relatively clear, don't get huge (about 1 1/2" maybe), and hold up pretty well in both the bank and the reef. Not sure if they're reproducing or not, but not too worried about that myself - if they are the fry are most probably near the bottom of the food chain.
 
I bought 6 from reefs2go, sold as "marine feeder shrimp", pretty sure these are the glass shrimp MadReefist mentioned are around FL. Two lasted quite a long time, about 8 months, now im down to one. I call them highlander shrimp, as I think they are killing each other, and the survivors seem to get markedly larger, quickly, after the other disappearances.
They came in clear, as described, but over time developed neat black striping and patterns, with orange spots. The most patterned one (2nd to last to perish), was a very active "swimmer", loved to cross the tank in the current back and forth, really neat shrimp. I never saw them carrying eggs, as I had a pair left for several months, but my fiance states she saw a baby shrimp at one point when she was feeding with all the pumps off. My tank is a 40 breeder, with heavy algae.


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Rhygar666 said:
love that tank picture, i am just curious what algae is that on the sand caulerpa?
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Thank you very much, been working on it for a bit. That is correct, just caulerpa prolifera. Trying to get a good grove going to sustain these kinds of things. It got a buzz cut just prior to that picture.
 
I'm going to get some from the NC coast and try them out after levaing them in some synthetic seawater for a while.
 
Rumor has it that if they are acclimated properly, "feeder shrimp" from your local LFS can survive in a marine tank. They are kinda like salmon in that they breed in saltwater and live in freshwater. Technically they are brackish, but lean more towards freshwater I suppose. Interesting to know that reefs2go has specimens that live pretty long in a marine tank.
 
I have gotten several of these shrimp from the bay here in Rhode island. I call them grass shrimp. They are clear, 1 half inch long, and brackish. The ones I get will live for a long time in full seawater and. Carry eggs all the time. The only problem I have found with them is the same problem I run into with mollies in a reef tank, and that is that they are stupid. What I mean by this is that they do not poses the skills required to survive next to things like stinging corals and anome. It has nothing to do with the temperature or the salinity of the water. They just don't know what to avoid so they all ways end up somebody's lunch.
 
spamreefnew said:
I have gotten several of these shrimp from the bay here in Rhode island. I call them grass shrimp. They are clear, 1 half inch long, and brackish. The ones I get will live for a long time in full seawater and. Carry eggs all the time. The only problem I have found with them is the same problem I run into with mollies in a reef tank, and that is that they are stupid. What I mean by this is that they do not poses the skills required to survive next to things like stinging corals and anome. It has nothing to do with the temperature or the salinity of the water. They just don't know what to avoid so they all ways end up somebody's lunch.
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Lol!!!

No idea why but your responsemademy my night.
 
I added several hundred to my tank a year ago. Those in the DT are gone. I suspect the more aggressive shrimp and crabs have consumer them. The ones in my refugium are alive and breeding.

I have regular spawning events and I suspect they're glass shrimp released. None grow out but they make a healthy plankton food supply.
 
Sweet jesus, that looks healthy for the tank karimwassef! where did you get these shrimps from? any pics of the parents?
 
I got a few hundred from reefs2go on discount.

This is not a good vendor for anything other than live feeder food.

The ones in my DT were thriving until I got peppermints, emerald crabs, bigger shrimp and fish... Then yum yum yum...

The refugium / chaeto mass is where they still live and breed. If I could, I'd double the size of that region and double the shrimp there.
 
Here's my chaeto setup when first set up. I think you can see a couple looking like dinosaurs in a massive ancient forest.

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Also added a few thousand pods
 
More recently changed the light and flow and that started a cyano outbreak. Fixing it now but the shrimp just migrated under the chaeto and are still breeding.
 
I regularly collect glass shrimp from rockpools in New Zealand, they look to be the same type as in the photo above.

I acclimate them for temperature and salinity relatively quickly (few hours) then chuck them in my tank. Being from the rockpools the salinity swings a lot anyways so they are used to this.

Most last for up to a year, many jump out of my tank even with a lid on. I have no fish that eat ornamental shrimp.

I have seen many with eggs, they lay a sort of foamy mat over some rocks, but fish and invertebrates eat the eggs before they hatch. I'll put some in my fuge in my next build and they should proliferate.
 
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