Ghost Shrimp and human medications
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Sounguru
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I would assume sugar would pollute the water and could kill the shrimp. I've dosed w/pretty heavy doses of salt in the past and had no ill effect on the ghost shrimp but it wasn't overnight it was built up slowly. I guess w/medications you have to look at the chemical compositions and see if it's toxic to the shrimp...I can't help you there. I've seen penicillin and such used to treat fish and dogs etc so I assume certain medications might not have bad effects, sure some would.
Well I was thinking more on the terms of something possibly causing hyper activity for the shrimp or something else which I can visibly see. And yeah if I do choose to do this then I would need to use very small concentrations.
Or for another idea, could I just have different types of substrate within a tank and see what the shrimp prefers? Would that have an affect or will the shrimp not notice the difference between substrates?
Or for another idea, could I just have different types of substrate within a tank and see what the shrimp prefers? Would that have an affect or will the shrimp not notice the difference between substrates?
Sounguru
Guru at being an expert
Depends on the substrate. Shrimp do act differently on sand verus mud verus gravel. I have all 3 types in different tanks and the shrimp in the mud spend a lot more time on the bottom. On the sand they seem so spend about equal time between the plants and substrate and in the gravel they spend more time on the plants and wood. I would assume this is based on food content of the differnet substrates.