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"Brackish/Saltwater" refers to the fact that the free-floating young require estuarine/marine conditions to mature before they resume life in pure freshwater conditions.

Processed: Several brands of generic "tropical flakes"; "gel-packet" bloodworms; "shrimp pellets"; freeze-dried krill; liquid dietary supplement. Frozen: ghost shrimp (P. paludosus) Live: Juvenile livebearers; small frogs; Oryzias javanicus (see http://habitatnews.nus.e...

Both circumstances, if they are within the range of possibility (I would house it alone, in the event I acquired a specimen).

Can anyone provide any information concerning captive care of "the recently discovered freshwater snapping shrimp" - Alpheus cyanoteles , depicted below? They apparently hail from Malaysia and exhibit the characteristic asymmetrical chelae of the marine Alpheidae. http://rmbr.nus.edu.sg/bi...