ohmygosh, I never knew shrimp & crayfish were so pretty!

[AnnetteG]

I can see this quickly becoming an addiction. I've been looking up shrimp and crayfish and those little blue lobsters on aquabid and on the classifieds on here and my heart is actually racing a little bit and I feel all excited. LOL :y220d: I don't know what it is about these little ocean going cockroaches, but they've won me over. Little cuties. :hearts::drool::nilly::lol2:

Tell me more about these guys, what do I need to know? I've only got the two small tanks right now, but I've got a 29 gal. to set up and we're planning on either getting a 55 or 75 for Christmas. Depending on budget and what I can find on craigslist. Hubby is wanting to put some oscars in one tank, I'm trying to convince him to go with discus instead, can you keep shrimp or crayfish with oscars or discus? Also, can shrimp and crayfish be kept together?

[cooldude123]

the crayfish might eat the shrimp...

[AnnetteG]

okay, so I'll be sure to keep shrimps in one tank and a crayfish in another. What about cory cats, can they be in a tank with them? I have one little bitty cory right now and was thinking of getting another one. I have lots of hiding places in the tank they'd be in - 2 caves and lots of fake plants and rocks/corals.

[StereoKills]

I have shrimp in with my cories and their fine together. They pretty much ignore each other. Oscars would definetly eat shrimp. Probably Discus too.

[jtburf]

shrimp are the bottom of a food web everone eats them in nature, the brighter they are the more a fish will want to take a chunk out of them.

A shrimp tank is ONLY a shrimp tank unless you have a fully grown goaliath african filter feeder.

[OhNo123]

crayfish might attack other fish. Possibly rip discus/ oscar fins.

[AnnetteG]

oooohhh, so lots more studying before I buy a crayfish. Little cuties though, I will have to have one eventually, even if they have to have their own tank. :-D

I'm going to order some RCS from mgamer and put in my 10g tank and move them to my 55 (or maybe 75!) peaceful tank I'll be getting between now and christmas! I only want small pretty fish that won't eat each other, so I'll be very careful and do my homework before I buy any additional fish. I have a couple of ghost shrimp in my 10 gal. right now and no one is bothering with them. They do have lots of hiding places though, so that probably helps.

It's my husband who's obsessed with oscars, but I'm letting him get a lizard, so he can just forget it! :raspberry:

[Dwarf Puffers]

There's some dwarf crays on aquabid, they'll be good with anything (Well, maybe not fry) ;)

[StereoKills]

I'm going to order some RCS from mgamer and put in my 10g tank

I just did last night! It's great to see a fellow invert lover! Welcome once again! :hi:

[OhNo123]

Ghost shrimp might eat cherry shrimp babies. Just a warning. Happened to me before. :(

[StereoKills]

Good to know! They are in fact going into their own 10g tank which just finished cycling a few weeks ago.

[Dwarf Puffers]

Ghost shrimp might eat cherry shrimp babies. Just a warning. Happened to me before. :(

Yeah, I could tell by just looking at the ghosties I had before they'd love to snag a baby anything...

[Seamaiden37]

Hi Annette, I know what you mean. I got a Seahorse as a gift and got some live food with her. Well they happen to be some Cherry Shrimp! This was the first time I actually saw them, though I have heard of them before.

I WAS HOOKED!! They are so cute and they are just so interesting too. I now have some Crystal blues that have had like 30 babies and some Hawahian Red Shrimp too.

I've yet to get some Crystal Reds!!!

Jaime ;)

[StereoKills]

Crystal blues? I haven't heard of those before. Are they a blue variant of the Bee Shrimp?

[AnnetteG]

ohmygoodness, what I wouldn't do to be able to keep seahorses! My kids would have a conniption! In a good way! :) Crystal blue shrimp, hmmm, must look those up!


Ghost shrimp might eat cherry shrimp babies. Just a warning. Happened to me before. :(

Thanks for the warning! I'll be sure to keep mine separate from the RCS. I wouldn't have thought that would happen, the ghost shrimp are so small themselves.

stereokills - every time I see you posting, I feel like I'm actually talking to Bill Murray. :lol2:

[StereoKills]

LOL:) I was actually surprised no one had that avatar already!

[Seamaiden37]

Yes seahorses are my all time favorite!! I been keeping them for at least 6 years now. If I can keep em, anybody can! I don't like things to be too complicated, you know simplicity is best sometimes. And in all their un-usual-ness and exotic beauty, they are really very hardy and quite easy.

Yep Bill, I bought the blues as 'Crystal Blues'. They are a deep blue and larger than the cherries, just a little. They seem to be doing great, but they are still in a holding tank. I have a 3 gallon eclipse they're going in. I'm not sure yet exactly what species they are in blue form (??) There were a few other littler shrimp in there with them that did look like bee shrimp.

Jaime

[StereoKills]

Start another thread and post some pics of them! I'd love to see them.

[AngJo72]

Heya Annette,

See this is how you end up with 15 fish tanks like me LMAO!

I keep the cherry shrimp in their own 15 gallon... Ghost shrimp will eat them... Most anything will eat the cherry shrimp..

If you chose to get some crays, make sure they are the dwarf species as they are less aggressive and more apt to do well in a community tank, just give them plenty of air and maybe something to climb up to the top of the tank to get some air, they love to climb.

I mistakenly bought some crays I believed were dwarf, and they were not.. Needed their own tank and they ate everything they could get ahold of...

Good luck!

Ang

[Seamaiden37]

Hey 'Bill", I did. Here's the link to it.http://www.aquariacentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=128013

Theres a pic in there of them.