I think I actually have a baby ghost shrimp!!!

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Ok shrimp experts, I know this is a very very very tiny shrimp and just a so so picture of it (best I can do with myskills/camera)

This is in my 10gal tank that has one blackberry shrimp, one Ghost shrimp (that was berried) that came from my 36gal tank, and three juvenile Malawa shrimp I got a few weeks ago from Happypoet and just yesterday I got four or five juvenile Blue Pearl shrimp and I think another juvenile Malawa! (Thanks Aaron!)

Well I just got home from dinner tonight and started snapping photos of the shrimp/tank and I see this ity bity teeny tiny baby shrimp and snap this photo! The reason I think it's a baby ghost is because of the sharp angled body shape! Though my first thought was a baby Malawa shrimp hitched a ride in the bag by accident, but they don't have the same body type as a ghost shrimp do they? What say you shrimp experts? (enlarge the photo for more detail)

(I thought ghost shrimp only successfully bread in colder water)

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Looks like a ghost shrimp to me, though it's hard to see the wee bugger. It's rare for them to survive in aquariums because just about anything, including adult ghost shrimp, eat the larvae. Looks like at least one got lucky, there may be more lurking too.
Word of warning, there are many different species collected from the wild and sold as "ghost shrimp". Some are predatory, and will eat other species of shrimp or even small fish. I'd get rid of the ghost shrimp as a precaution rather than just hoping they don't do any harm...
 
Definitely ghost shrimp fry, I've seen a total of three at one time now! In case you didn't now where to look for the Ghost Fry, it's on the Anubias leaf just above the heater tube...
 
jawasnack said:
(I thought ghost shrimp only successfully bread in colder water)
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Probably depends on where the shrimp came from. As todddnbecka mentioned, 'ghost shrimp' doesn't describe a single species of shrimp. If it is shrimp shaped and clear-bodied then it's a 'ghost shrimp'. There are wild varieties of both 'ghost/grass/glass shrimp' living and breeding in all types of water (salt, fresh, brackish) down here.
 
jawasnack said:
Definitely ghost shrimp fry, I've seen a total of three at one time now! In case you didn't now where to look for the Ghost Fry, it's on the Anubias leaf just above the heater tube...
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Thank you SO much. I thought it was a smudge. I couldn't see anything remotely Shrimp Like in there until you pointed it out. :thm:
 
One thing I miss about the old setup was that when you clicked on a picture it got really big. Or am I doing something wrong?
 
jackiomy said:
One thing I miss about the old setup was that when you clicked on a picture it got really big. Or am I doing something wrong?
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The picture will still get bigger, you have to click a couple more times than the old way of doing it

When the aquariacentral tech support fixes whatever is going on keeping me from uploading any new pictures I will post a better shot.
 
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