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I was told that the "whisker shrimp" are asian glass/ ghost shrimp, I have about 6 in my tank and they are very calm and never eat anything unless it's dead.
I love this species because they are so calm and quite beautiful.
Here are some of mine, one is a berried female. Sorry photobucket resized ...

Here are the other two pictures this is of the female I believe, she no longer has the eggs. The eggs were a very light green btw

I went to a local petshop and found a tank labled "whisker shrimp" and in it were tons of males and females and all the females were berried so I assume they are all adults and this is their full grown size. They look like a large ghost shrimp and have the same temperment it seems. I am wondering if ...

I looked on the shrimp varieties page and couldn't find anything about this so I thought I would post. I bought these at a petstore they were labeled as being ghost shrimp but I knew right away they weren't. I have raised this type of shrimp before and it got very large around 7-8 inches long. I am ...

Yes I've noticed that right before they die they turn white, I have been watching it and it is eating and swimming around like normal and it even does the typical "smash head on glass while swimming" thing that shrimp love to do hehe. If it is sick it has done a very good job of keeping the others ...

Although I am a newbie I have researched the website and looked for my answers plus I have been into the shrimp hobby for a few years. I have not seen anything posted about this or I would not have posted.
Okay I keep about 20 ghost shrimp in a 20 gallon tank, about 2 months ago I bought some more ...