Ghost Shrimp

GuZZiZZiT

GuZZiZZiT

the geek shall inherit the earth
Oct 4, 2006
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Well, i just discovered another batch of baby ghost shrimp (do ya call em fry?). I must have missed there "larval" stage again because they just look like tiny versions of the adults. They are all hanging out in the piece of breeding grass i have "planted" on the bottom of the tank so hopefully at least some of them will escape the corry cats. I'm going to have to move some of them to my new tank when it's ready because my 30 gallon is becomming over run.

I know most people use Ghost shrimp as feeders, but i just think they are fun to watch, plus they do a good job of clearing up food that falls to the bottom.
 
Can i get some ghost shrimp....... :dance:
 
I bought my original 8 from pets smart for like, 20 cents each, i'd offer ya some of mine but they'd cost more to ship then you can buy em for.
 
Ok ill see if my petsmart got some.....they do but erry time i try and buy em they are all sold out....must be a popular critter
 
I'd ask the cleark, these little guys hide real good in the tank, especially if it has a light substrate. YOu probly only need a few, like i said, they breed like rabbits. My understanding (and if i have this wrong, someone please correct me because i'd be interested to know more) is that the female carries the eggs against her abdomen until they hatch.

Ghost shrimp also "molt" occasionally. You'll wake up and look in your tank and there will be several shrimp exo-skeletons floating around at the surface. Interesting critter to observe.
 
Neat! I've only had 2 ghost shrimp babies survive to the become baby shrimplets. I'm pretty sure my filter or my fish ate all the thousands of others while they were in the planktonic larval stages. Did you have your filter intake covered or something?

I totally agree that ghosties are fun critters. I wish they would become more popular as pets because then the stores might treat them better. I hate how half of every batch I buy dies from disease, extensive neglect, or whatever. They're just treated as cheap feeders, like those poor minnows and goldies. They're all just low quality :(
 
Yea at my Lfs and at my petsmart they got like 500 feeder fish in a 55 gal or like at petsmart 500 in a 20 G
 
well when i last had like 15 ghosties they did well, they were very old though and their shells whitened after a while. i had been feeding them shrimp pellets, frozen bloodworms, and algae wafers. they loved everything i put in there. a couple of my females had eggs and the shrimplets didn't last long AT ALL. when they were in my 10g my filter sucked them up too. i'm thinking about getting some more but i'd love to breed em, but i gotta make sure they survive during their smaller stages. so many things to watchout for.
 
No, i didn't have the filter intake covered at all, thats why i was really suprised to see them this time. I discovered them because for the last 2 weeks i was running my Eheim 2128 cannister filter on my 30 gallon to "preseed" it for my 125, so how these little guys made it i dunno, i mean, it was turning the water over like, 18 times an hour between the two filters. (hehe, maybe i've created a strain of mutant super ghost shrimp, hehe)

Thousands of larva hey? well, i saw like, 9 little shrimplets, so i guess thats still not much of a success rate. :confused: but could explain why the rest of my fish have been looking a pudgy latley.
 
The "thousands" of larvae I was referring to was not from one spawn. Each time, the female only carries probably a hundred eggs. But she was constantly carrying eggs for like 2 years, with a new batch of eggs every month so I figured it worked out to a thousand or so babies throughout her life with me :)
 
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