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Ghost Shrimp
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This page contains Customer
Comments and our Replies about Ghost Shrimp.
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Hi!
This is a great website!
I purchased 3 ghost shrimp
from my local pet store
yesterday to go in
a 1.5 gallon fish bowl along
with a male betta. I took
your advice and placed a
small clear glass dish in
the bottom and propped it
against a large rock so
they can get under it.
Today one is in there with
a molted skeleton! Cool,
huh? How will the shrimp
eat while it is vulnerable?
Will it eat the old skeleton?
Will it come out at all
or stay in there until his
new shell comes in?
Thanks
Kim
Georgia |
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Reply. Hello Kim. I'm
glad you like this web site, and it's very cool
that your Ghost Shrimp crawled under the glass,
where you can see it! Using a piece of clear
glass was a very good idea, that I've never
tried. So I've never seen what the Ghost Shrimp
actually does, while it's hiding and waiting
for it's new exoskeleton to harden.
I have heard that a Ghost
Shrimp will eat after molting, if it can get
food in it's hiding place, and that a Ghost
Shrimp will often eat its old exoskeleton. After
all the old exoskeleton has all ingredients
to make a new exoskeleton. But now you can see
exactly what the Ghost Shrimp does, and I hope
you will send me a report for this web page.
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Word of warning to ghost
shrimp owners with fry
in the tank. I just
had one of my ghost
shrimp eat one of my,
very alive, 3 week old
black mollie fry. I
had read a few reports
that the shrimp are
docile towards fries.
Adam G. |
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Reply. Hello Adam. Thank
you for email and for your comments. Many times
I've seen Ghost Shrimp eating dead fish and
fish fry. But I have never seen a Ghost Shrimp
attack and eat a live fish or fish fry. I think
Ghost Shrimp usually stay away from a live fish,
unless it is nearly dead and incapacitated. |
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Howdy guys.
Your site has provided me with some of the best information I've found on the internet about fish keeping and have had much success implementing it. I would simply like to point out an interesting opservation I made.
I recently got three different sized Clown Loaches for one of my tanks. In the tank were two types of shrimp; about six Ghost Shrimp and three Algea Eating Shrimp, all about the same size. The Clown Loaches range from three
inches to one. In about a day, all the Ghost Shrimp had been eaten, which I anticipated.
But, they never seem to east the Algea Eating Shrimp. I've had them for over a month now, and the Algea Eaters are skill kicking. I've even seen the Loaches rummage around the bottom of the tank right next to the Shrimp, never
once attempting to consume them. I guess, at least from my experience, they make acceptable tank partners.
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| Reply. Hello Zane. Thank you for your interesting comments about the compatibility of your Clown Loaches with two different types of Shrimp.
Click
here for more about Clown Loaches, and click here for more about Aquarium Shrimp. |
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Hi there,
Your website is THE PLACE
to go for any smart fish
keeper! I was reading comments
about ghost shrimps. And
it's very true that they
eat fries. I was told by
one experienced fish keeper
neighbor that ghost shrimp
would not eat alive fish.
I have a 15 gallons tank
with some 200 mollies and
guppy babies. Trying to
keep that tank cleaner of
uneaten food I place there
8 ghost shrimps from my
bigger tank.
A few days ago I was watching
the hatching tank when a
ghost shrimp literally attacked
a fry about 1.5" far. It
moved forward & backward
so quickly that it was hard
to believe. It was as fast
and effective as a snake
attack. I was kind a shocked
and delighted at the same
time.
At one of its arms was shaking
the baby mollie and it was
swallowed without mercy.
A few seconds later I could
see the small fry still
moving alive inside the
ghost shrimp transparent
body. I removed all the
shrimps back to the bigger
tank within a minute!
I have a question: Can you
send me some info about
breeding those amazing ghost
shrimps?
Ernesto
Naples, Florida
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Reply. Hello Ernesto.
Thank you very much for your eye-witness report
on your Ghost Shrimp eating a baby Molly.
Look closely at one of your
female Ghost Shrimp. She will usually
be larger than the males, and often have pinkish
eggs or baby shrimps attached to the underside
of her abdomen.
So it is no problem to breed
Ghost Shrimp and produce the babies. The problem
is how to feed them the very small food they
need to survive and grow?
Baby Ghost Shrimp usually
cannot be fed in aquariums, but it is possible
in ponds, and long ago I bought lots of Ghost
Shrimp from a fish farmer in Florida. But he
retired. If you have pond, try putting a few
nice female Ghost Shrimp in the pond.
Thanks again for your comments.
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