Shrimps - Advice Re Transparent Shrimp In Bag Of Fish

One of these 'ere Amano shrimps, perhaps....

It could have been one of the species called ghost or glass shrimps (there are several very similar species and both common names are used for all of them).

Have a look at photos on Pet Shrimp and Planet Inverts to see if you can recognise it.


One word of caution - there are shrimps called macrobrachium, which when young are indistinguishable from ghost/glass shrimps. But as they mature, macrobrachiums arms, the ones with the pincers, grow very long. They use these arms to catch small fish. If your shrimps arms start to grow long, you need to remove it from the tank - either find someone to take it or set it up in it own tank.

I've got clear shrimp which aren't glass shrimp or amanos, I forget the name now, the LS just sold them as cleaner shrimps. I discovered what mine were when I googled that

I think that must have been the shop's name. Most cleaner shrimps I've ever come across are marine shrimps. This is the main reason I wish shops would use the latin name. Use their common names as well by all means, but with latin names at least we'd be able to research fish/shrimps etc properly.

Sorry to hear that your shrimp was found on the floor. 

Sorry to hear about the shrimp.

Although I've never kept them, I believe from others that they can be escape artists, often climbing up cables and out the small holes of the tank that the cables feed through. They can also escape if the water parameters aren't perfect eg any sign of ammonia or nitrite, or nitrates higher than say 20ppm, so it would be worth checking your water if you haven't already done that in the past few days (and you'll need to keep an eye on it anyway due to the new additions). Hope that helps.

I think that must have been the shop's name. Most cleaner shrimps I've ever come across are marine shrimps

My MA got them in a big delivery although they hadn't ordered them and apparently they were just labelled cleaner shrimp.