Bringing shrimp from Hawaii?

[SubRosa]

Have you seen this?http://www.ebay.com/itm/40-live-sal...020?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item33727f08b4

Knowing I can get them that readily and cheaply would make me think about bringing/sending some of these home instead. You'd be VERY popular around here if you did!

 

[ManEatingShrimp]

Those are the red Hawaiian shrimp that are saltwater. They need salt or brackish water and that price seems a little high too. I have been looking for those on the beach though. Haven't seen any kind of shrimp yet.
I did see a really cool goby watching me from a hole in a tidepool. Very tempted to start a saltwater tank and base it off of Hawaiian tidepools.

 

[carolinyens]

A hawaiin tidal pool tank would be freakin awesome. Not sure if many ppl have rocked a tank like that

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[SubRosa]

Those are the red Hawaiian shrimp that are saltwater. They need salt or brackish water and that price seems a little high too. I have been looking for those on the beach though. Haven't seen any kind of shrimp yet.
I did see a really cool goby watching me from a hole in a tidepool. Very tempted to start a saltwater tank and base it off of Hawaiian tidepools.

That Goby is freshwater btw, and supposedly very numerous where it's found , and the shrimp are the same as you're referring to I think. They can live in anything from freshwater to euryhaline (saltier than seawater) conditions, but the best reproduction occurs in brackish conditions. Check the latin names.

 

[TL1000RSquid]

Those shrimp are pretty cool but would end up being food even in my 10g nano. They hatch whole or as larva?

 

[tolawdjk]

Certainly seems like they are prohibited for sale or trade.

http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dar/regulated_fish_ffi.html

 

[SubRosa]

Certainly seems like they are prohibited for sale or trade.

http://hawaii.gov/dlnr/dar/regulated_fish_ffi.html

In Hawaii. However they are legal to collect by thrownet, and they're apparently not banned from export from the state.

 

[dwrf frog]

The mountain shrimp is cool. There is a very similar shrimp that is far more common-the Singapore bamboo shrimp. Looks almost the same actually... I would really prefer the gobies they have on Hawaii. Some really nicely colored ones too!



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[ManEatingShrimp]

The shrimp have a saltwater larval stage like amano shrimp but not very much is known about it so no one has successfully raised them yet.

Idk if it was a goby I saw but it had a similar face with 2 blue horn things coming out of its forehead. Hope he wasn't freshwater since he was in a saltwater tidepool lol.

Hopefully I will be able to check out a fish store Thursday and see if they have the shrimp. Worst case I bring back some wild cherry shrimp.

 

[ManEatingShrimp]

Heres a thread with pictures and more info on the shrimp
http://www.aquaticplantcentral.com/forumapc/shrimp-other-invertebrates/37321-opae-kalaole.html