I had one for quite awhile, until I passed it along to my roommate. The Petsmart "marble" shrimp is indeed a wood shrimp. They can change color somewhat to blend in, and they spend most of their time on a rock or plant with water flowing near it. Still neat, even if they don't move much. $12 worth of neat? I don't know. My roommates old one was found on the floor, and at one point I found mine in my HOB filter.
Marble shrimp
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The bamboo shrimp only requires brackish to full salt water for its larvae. Supposedly, the females will go gravid all the time when males are present (because they mate) and the larvae just die because they can't get to salt water. That's just what I've read. Look at petshrimp.com for more info.
As for 12 bucks per shrimp........that's a lot. I got mine for 6-7 and I thought that might have been pricey. Guess not.
I applaud your efforts to learn more about the fish and pass that info to the customer :clap: many of those tags are very wrong, especially the clown loach tags.
As for whether it will survive with clowns is debatable. I'm going to find out myself, I have 2 Atyopsis moluccensis in with 6 clowns, check out a quick video clip of one of my shrimp here (4MB wmv 50seconds). Both of mine are about 3" which if I remember is the max size of the females (males up to an inch longer - they can be identified by their larger fore claws). Being the largest of the FW shrimp commonly sold for aquariums it has the greatest chance of not gettin' eat'n. If you provide your clowns with a proper tank size (180g is considered min.) they will eventually reach 12" or larger, and I would imagine the shrimp if they live that long will eventually become food. So far my 4"-5" clowns have not done any harm but you never know when that could change. The shrimp generally stay towards the top (by the spraybar) and clowns normally stay to the bottom.
Your female is a much redder color than the ones I've seen in the stores. Did you buy her like that, or did she redden up in your tank?
I dont recall but I doubt she was quite that red in the store. They do change color somewhat in my tank, but one always seems far more red than the other. Also against lots of green makes the red stand out more.
