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Thanks so much for your help geofied. Your brother is right - the shrimp is a palaemon paucidens. I double-confirmed this just yesterday with a Japanese marine biologist I met here in Japan. I am keeping about 12 of these little guys in a tank and they are amazingly hardy - they dont seem to care mu...

Thanks - I am learning so much about these amazing little creatures - my kids keep telling me that I have shrimp fever!

Thanks for your help. Any further advice/comments would be really appreciated. I will be in Hokkaido again next week and will try to provide some pictures of their natural environment if it helps. What interests me is that this lake freezes over each winter and I wonder how this shrimp can survive y...

Someone told me that the shrimp in the photo is a Pink Shrimp/Aesop Shrimp (Scientific name Pandalus montagui) (Japanese name Tarabagani-zoku). Any comments?

This shrimp was actually caught in a large dam up in the mountains about half a hour north of Tomakomai by car. There are literally millions of this variety of shrimp in the dam - one scoop with a small butterfly-type net at the waters edge can yield about 20-30 shrimp at a time!

Could someone please help me in identifying the shrimp in the attached photo. The shrimp is from a freshwater lake in Hokkaido, Japan and I was wondering whether it would be a suitable variety to keep in a tank. Also if anyone knows - how big will this variety grow to, how hardy are they and will st...