Since we can't have the normal catfish or clean-up crews that we can have in a FW tank...what would you suggest for a BW tank?
I went to Terry's AquaLand (Terry is the owner and the only one I will talk to about fish there) and he said that some hybrid "mutt" feeder shrimp could clean up the BW tank as long as I was just now starting to cycle to BW. That they will "adapt" to the water conditions and that they are tough to kill.
Honestly, they look like ghost shrimp with a few red spots over their tails and bodies and small bright red claws on them--different then I see on the internet pictures for ghost shrimp. They are only 1/2 inch to an inch long. Could it be a hybrid or FW/BW shrimp? Or a BW shrimp that is being sold as food and they just don't care? I tried to take a picture of one but it doesn't even show up in the tank!
I did buy 6 of them and put them in the tank with the gobies hoping that the little guys might just make a meal of them if nothing else...but they are all still in there this morning (bought them Friday afternoon)...drats!
Any suggestions on what "mutt" shrimp this could be and the possible problems I might have with them in the BW??
I went to Terry's AquaLand (Terry is the owner and the only one I will talk to about fish there) and he said that some hybrid "mutt" feeder shrimp could clean up the BW tank as long as I was just now starting to cycle to BW. That they will "adapt" to the water conditions and that they are tough to kill.
Honestly, they look like ghost shrimp with a few red spots over their tails and bodies and small bright red claws on them--different then I see on the internet pictures for ghost shrimp. They are only 1/2 inch to an inch long. Could it be a hybrid or FW/BW shrimp? Or a BW shrimp that is being sold as food and they just don't care? I tried to take a picture of one but it doesn't even show up in the tank!
I did buy 6 of them and put them in the tank with the gobies hoping that the little guys might just make a meal of them if nothing else...but they are all still in there this morning (bought them Friday afternoon)...drats!
Any suggestions on what "mutt" shrimp this could be and the possible problems I might have with them in the BW??