black_sun
12-09-2008, 9:48 PM
What's a good species of shrimp to start out with?
I've kept and bred ghost shrimp before to use as feeders, and they were always very interesting to observe. And I kept a few bamboos a while back before my bf decided they would look better in his tank than mine. :headshake2: But other than that, no real shrimp keeping experience. I just keep crayfish, and now some mystery snails (not together, otherwise it'd just be crayfish again soon enough lol).
And subsequently, I've decided I would like to set-up a shrimp only tank. I don't really want to do bamboos again, they were fun and all just not as active as my ghost shrimp were, and I really enjoyed that. But I wanted something a little more colorful than my ghost shrimp. I was looking around on aquabid.com and ebay.com and I found a few that I really liked:
tiger shrimp
zebra shrimp
cherry shrimp
red claw shrimp
Could I start out with any of these, or no? Any other suggestions for something to start out with?
Thanks!
I've kept and bred ghost shrimp before to use as feeders, and they were always very interesting to observe. And I kept a few bamboos a while back before my bf decided they would look better in his tank than mine. :headshake2: But other than that, no real shrimp keeping experience. I just keep crayfish, and now some mystery snails (not together, otherwise it'd just be crayfish again soon enough lol).
And subsequently, I've decided I would like to set-up a shrimp only tank. I don't really want to do bamboos again, they were fun and all just not as active as my ghost shrimp were, and I really enjoyed that. But I wanted something a little more colorful than my ghost shrimp. I was looking around on aquabid.com and ebay.com and I found a few that I really liked:
tiger shrimp
zebra shrimp
cherry shrimp
red claw shrimp
Could I start out with any of these, or no? Any other suggestions for something to start out with?
Thanks!