Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: Cinders on May 11, 2016, 04:39:42 PM
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Hi, I bought some panda corys yesterday, and on getting home found there was a shrimp in the bag too. It is transparent to look at with no colour at all. Can anyone enlighten me please, never had shrimps before. Seems quite active. Will it survive with my three cherry barbs and five corys
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One of these 'ere Amano shrimps, perhaps....
(http://www.planetinverts.com/amano_shrimp_th.jpg)
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No Colin, it is long and thin and a silvery transparent. Like glass.
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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 (http://www.petshrimp.com/shrimpspecies.php) and Planet Inverts (http://www.planetinverts.com/) 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.
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Thanks Sue, I think it looks like one of the glass shrimps, I shall have to keep an eye on it. It seems very active at the moment.
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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
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Thanks Fiona, I'll look that up.
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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.
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Yes I agree. Disaster for my shrimp today. Found it dead on the floor this morning. Can't imagine how it got out. Only thing I can think that it latched on to my arm when I was taking some snails out night before and I didn't notice it. Or are they escape artists. I'm quite disappointed now.
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Sorry to hear that your shrimp was found on the floor. :(
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Thanks Littlefish.
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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.
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Oh that's interesting, thank you. I shall be doing a water change in the morning, I have been doing it every few days, and checking it to make sure all is well.
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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.
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The usual label for miscellaneous shrimps of unknown species is 'algae eating shrimps'.
I once saw assassin snails labelled as algae eating snails. They were fairly new to the hobby then and quite expensive. I wasn't 100% sure what they were so I googled assassins when I got home, which confirmed I was right. So I phoned the shop and told them; they had no idea what they were.