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Are salt water shrimp also easy to care for are is it harder?

i got 4 ghost shrimp from walmart about a week ago.and two of them shed there skin so far, and one of the shrimp that shed now is no longer see through! plus the eyes are pich black now like the other one that shed? but the ones that did not shed have a light golden tinge to there eyes. is something...

winwin wrote: harmful strong light when molting.

its harmful to shrimp when they get strong light? i didnet know that. but when u say strong light that means how strong?

after seaching i found very little and most of them just said that the males were larger. and i found a site selling shrimp cheap to eat...mmmmmm shrimp scampy.
well any way nothing about how to tell the diff. sept that females get full of eggs and males are bigger. not much else i can say sorry.

a long way i figered is to wait and see with ones dont get eggs. witch might take month though..... maybe the males might have more color then females or males are biger then the females... or is it the other way around :? thats the only ways i can really think of telling the diff..... ill go surf t...

but i dont know how to post pics or even get one onto my computer to get ready to post. well is there any thing u can give about them, or are they just as harmless as there cusions yer going to sell? or maybe more aggersive? and the pics of the palaemonetes paludosus shrimp dont look like the one i ...

what happens to the pregnet shrimp when the eggs dont get fertalized?

does any one what type of ghost shrimp i have? palaemonetes paludosus,Palaemonetes pugio and Palaemonetes vulgaris are the types iam aware of. what they look like they have 4 red dots 2 on the tail and 1 on each claw. the eyes are clear cet for the black dot for the pupal. and they have a thick red ...

What is KH and dkh? i know that u whould need somewhat hard water to keep them alive.

What is "black water"?

on closer looking its like almost black a dark indigo

That is fuuny i have never thought of a fan shrimp attacking other fish or shrimp i have seen pic and and look like they even have claws to hold the food the get with the "spike"any ways isnt the "spike" made of a bunch of fether like strands? how is that strong enogh the stab so...

my dads 60 gallon tank has a rock hard alge on the side i tried rubeing it off but it doesnt, i have to use my nails.and the alge eating fish diead of starvation becuse they ate faster then the alge could grow back. now its starting to run rampit in the tank and i took of the gravel and water and pu...

ok i did the filter squeeze and i took some gravel and water from my dads tank and put it in my little one, its about 2 days sence then and the ammonia is complately gone and the nitraite is still rather high,off course i could lower that with some plants. and my tank is rather bare a few big rock g...

i did the "filter squeeze" and most of which came out of the filter my goldfish are eating now most of it. Ill see what happens in the morning.....