Anyone know where to get these locally?
http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=2191
http://liveaquaria.com/product/prod_Display.cfm?pCatId=2191
White Shrimp
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Pufferpunk
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Aren't those just ghost shrimp? I see them at Coral Reef all the time.
Pufferpunk
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From this GS article: http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/other/ghostshrimp.html
"These creatures are caught along the Gulf Coast in marshes, rivers, and less-than-marine bays."
Are you looking for them as food or pets?
"These creatures are caught along the Gulf Coast in marshes, rivers, and less-than-marine bays."
Are you looking for them as food or pets?
Pufferpunk
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GS should work fine then. Basically non-nutritious though, unless gut-loaded with other nutritious foods. What are you feeding?
Well, I actually have two separate feeding issues.
In one tank I have a smaller blue dot puffer who I am slowing getting to eat frozen foods. I am feeding frozen mysis, rod's food, squid, and gamma. in addition, i threw some small blue legged hermits in there, which he actually went after. i see him picking at the live rock all day, but he is still somewhat skittish about going after the frozen food. he does alot of eating and then spitting out. i tried some ghost shrimp and he got excited and chased them, but had a difficult time catching them (i think he finally did get one or two)
In the other tank i have a dwarf lion who will not touch frozen food. He did however devour any ghost shrimp I put in there.
Both tanks have attached refugiums. My plan was to get a good quantity of these white shrimp and put them in the refugium and harvest them for the tank. Nutrition would be another factor i have to consider.
In one tank I have a smaller blue dot puffer who I am slowing getting to eat frozen foods. I am feeding frozen mysis, rod's food, squid, and gamma. in addition, i threw some small blue legged hermits in there, which he actually went after. i see him picking at the live rock all day, but he is still somewhat skittish about going after the frozen food. he does alot of eating and then spitting out. i tried some ghost shrimp and he got excited and chased them, but had a difficult time catching them (i think he finally did get one or two)
In the other tank i have a dwarf lion who will not touch frozen food. He did however devour any ghost shrimp I put in there.
Both tanks have attached refugiums. My plan was to get a good quantity of these white shrimp and put them in the refugium and harvest them for the tank. Nutrition would be another factor i have to consider.
Pufferpunk
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Yes, it can be difficult to get wild-caught fish like puffers & lionfish on to "dead" foods. It is important that you try your hardest though. Your idea may work, but it seems these marine GS are difficult to feed & the fuge may not be able to support the food, w/o it drifting off.
In that same article:
"The other common Ghost Shrimp, the brackish/marine type, also breeds in captivity, but the “fry†are quite different from the adults, true larvae, tiny even in relation to their FW kin, and live free-floating in brackish to marine water, drifting with the plankton eating the tiniest plankton. They go through multiple molts and life cycle stages during this period, so are extremely difficult to raise in captivity. They live this free-floating existence for many days to weeks before they come to resemble the parents and settle out of the water column to an adult life style. If you have seen both types of females carrying eggs on their swimmerets, the difference is obvious. The brackish/marine forms have tiny, tiny eggs and many, many of them. The eggs of the FW form(s?) are much larger and even to aging eyes can be seen as individual eggs (well, on occasion with the help of a magnifying lens). "
Here is a link to feeding puffers: http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/puffer/food.html
In that same article:
"The other common Ghost Shrimp, the brackish/marine type, also breeds in captivity, but the “fry†are quite different from the adults, true larvae, tiny even in relation to their FW kin, and live free-floating in brackish to marine water, drifting with the plankton eating the tiniest plankton. They go through multiple molts and life cycle stages during this period, so are extremely difficult to raise in captivity. They live this free-floating existence for many days to weeks before they come to resemble the parents and settle out of the water column to an adult life style. If you have seen both types of females carrying eggs on their swimmerets, the difference is obvious. The brackish/marine forms have tiny, tiny eggs and many, many of them. The eggs of the FW form(s?) are much larger and even to aging eyes can be seen as individual eggs (well, on occasion with the help of a magnifying lens). "
Here is a link to feeding puffers: http://www.thepufferforum.com/articles/puffer/food.html
karenL
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http://www.livebrineshrimp.com/
I've used the marine shrimp before and have been very pleased
fine vessel for delivering nurishment
of course they are only as good as you feed them
I've used the marine shrimp before and have been very pleased
fine vessel for delivering nurishment
of course they are only as good as you feed them
Wrassemeister
New member
is it easy to breed these? to continually have your own home bred feeding supply?
Pufferpunk
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"extremely difficult to raise in captivity"
Please read my above post about breeding marine shrimp.
Please read my above post about breeding marine shrimp.
