Long Arm Shrimp!!!!

I have at least ten of that species scattered throughout two different tanks. They are free ranging shrimp yet will stake out a small territory that provides some sort of shelter, most preferably a cave made by removing sand from just under a large rock. The shrimp will not make the cave but instead they use such hidey holes that other critters have dug out. They are territorial towards their own kind and other types of shrimp, defending their 6-8 inch square turf. Oh, and the species has been moved out of the Periclimenes and into the Kemponia. Which reminds me that I have to update my own shrimp page to reflect an "unknown" as being K. tenuipes. It appears that I have two color variants and need to decide which one to put up.

The Caridean Shrimp of the Philippines - just started it not long ago.

Chuck
 
Wow thanks for all the info!

When you say they are aggressive to other shrimp, do you mean catching and eating them or just protecting their territory (meaning, chasing away shrimp/fish that venture too near)?

Because I have small sexy shrimp, a harlequin, anemone shrimp, another species of anemone shrimp. The other shrimp can probably look out for themselves.

And any info on what they eat or will it just scavange on leftovers or anything I give it?

thanks again!
 
By aggressive I meant chase away, but even then they don't really chase but go into a head bobbing routine which I assume is a warning and if that fails they simply lunge at the other shrimp causing it to flee. I've never seen them hurt anything as they are content to just pick at the rock. I do however target feed them with a few sinking fish pellets (very small) as most problems that shrimp seem to have are dietary related.

Chuck
 
Thanks. I plan to buy it from liveaquaria and one other item.

I just have one question, and I'm not sure you'll be able to answer it, it says all orders placed by 9:30 (10:30 here) will be delivered on...
in this case, it would be a saturday/sunday (since it's after 10:30), and it says it'll be delivered on a tuesday. Does that mean i will recieve it on tuesday?
 
I would imagine that delivery means your receipt of it. I also have to say that I was quite surprised at how much the species cost as there are so many here that I don't pay them much attention, but at 30 bucks each...... lol

Chuck
 
Aww, your so lucky. I've never seen them anywhere at all. And people around here say one place gets them for like $60 or something, and still, its very rare.
But yeah, I think it means getting here on that day, so hopefully it will arrive tuesday when I don't have school.

I ordered the shrimp, and a coral, pretty expensive for two things. hope my first online ordering goes well!!

I'm really unhappy tho, they have these bongo shrimp that look extremely cool. But $130 for the pair. And I wanted to buy a tozeuma Ghost pipe shrimp too but $40 was way too much for a 1 inch shrimp. I'm basically saying I'm really mad that I can't buy all these exotic shrimp, I kind of collect them lol.
 
I got the shrimp on tuesday! sorry for the late update.

I acclimated it well and its happy, the only thing, its not eating anything. I took what you said into consideration, and fed it the pellets. But they are too big for it to swallow. It hadn't eaten for a day, so I crushed them up and it ate them quickly.

Is there any alternate food I can use to feed them? I've tried flake, mysid, pellets (small sized). Or a better question would be, what type of pellets do you use? is there some company thing that makes extra small ones? Or do you crush them up?
 
I would imagine that just as any critter put into new surroundings that it would put them off of their feed untill they get themselves comfortable again.
When I do target feed my shrimp, I use a small sized sinking fish food pellet that the shrimp have no trouble in holding while they "nibble" on the pellet as it becomes soft in the water.
In an aquarium that has live rock and at least a few fish, it would be very hard for the shrimp to not find enough to eat as they will pick at algal growth and what ever left overs the fish allow to sink to the bottom. In short I don't think you have to crush up any foods as they can scavenge larger pieces quite well.

Chuck
 
Really? I've seen him scavange for food often, during feeding time, and he just walks right over the pellets and doesn't bother with them. but I don't know, I'll have more time to look at it while I'm cleaning my tank today, I'll update again later.
 
Update, the shrimp is doing great now! He will eat the pellets now and I think he was just adjusting like you said. He had his first molt that I took out of the tank to display.

thanks for the help
 
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