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by cro117
Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:00 am
Forum: Other Invertebrates
Topic: Crab ID
Replies: 2
Views: 2707

Re: Crab ID

i know. i'm working on getting a pic. i thought in the mean time i would see if anyone has any ideas. i figured the part about it coming in the same shipments with red claws might have been a clue to someone. either they are collected together in the wild. or at the wholesalers they are housed toget...
by cro117
Thu Jan 10, 2008 8:47 pm
Forum: Other Invertebrates
Topic: Crab ID
Replies: 2
Views: 2707

Crab ID

hi, i was hoping that someone could help me id a species of crab. i don't have a photo right now, so hopefully a vague description will suffice. it's carapace is a dark bluish-purple, legs are a brownish, and it has bright red movable finger. i cant remember if the unmovable finger is the same, and ...
by cro117
Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:37 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: New cray or shrimp bad picture
Replies: 33
Views: 8333

Badflash, go ahead an forward the manual. I don't know if it is physical or an email, but I talked to him today, and he is interested.
by cro117
Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:53 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: New cray or shrimp bad picture
Replies: 33
Views: 8333

Sorry, I was referring to the "electric blue spider lobster" from the pic at the beginning of the forum.
by cro117
Sun Dec 17, 2006 10:17 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: New cray or shrimp bad picture
Replies: 33
Views: 8333

the LFS here in town actually just brought in a group of 3 Electric Blue Lobsters, and although they do look like the picture posted the color is much more impressive in person, various shades of metallic blue, awsome looking. Ecir Your electric blue "lobsters" are most likely Procambarus...
by cro117
Tue Dec 05, 2006 8:52 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Yellow shrimp
Replies: 18
Views: 4815

:shock: Thanks for the link. It does seem to be a color variation of a cherry, or, at the very least, a similar species. Hopefully they will hit the US hobby soon, but I won't hold my breath. The shrimp I would really like to see would be a S grade green crystal shrimp with the same colors as a gree...
by cro117
Mon Dec 04, 2006 11:44 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Yellow shrimp
Replies: 18
Views: 4815

I thought the non-red gene was recessive. Non the less, I was just wondering if this could occur in other species, like albinism does. Though, I don't believe albinism occur in invertebrates, so it may be moot anyways.
by cro117
Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:21 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Yellow shrimp
Replies: 18
Views: 4815

Yellow shrimp

Hi, I saw a topic with this same subject which was closed, I suppose because the author was inquiring about purchasing, but I would like to know more about them. "yellow" is not very specific when starting a search. I have heard that yellow betas are really red betas that lack the red. Are...
by cro117
Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:08 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Pearl shrimp with aragonite?
Replies: 13
Views: 3252

The peat will be mixed with a lower layer of substrate with a top layer above it, so it shouldn't leach into the water too much. It's just to get some carbon in an oxygen poor part of the system so it can be used for the terminal electron accepter instead of oxygen. I forgot to ask about texture. I'...
by cro117
Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:39 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Pearl shrimp with aragonite?
Replies: 13
Views: 3252

Sorry, I should not have used the common name only :oops: , especially because some people call it a sand shrimp. I was referring to Macrobrachium cf. mirabile.

Another question I forgot to ask is do they like some salt added to the water? If so how much and would they coexist with bumble bee gobies?
by cro117
Sun Nov 26, 2006 9:40 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Pearl shrimp with aragonite?
Replies: 13
Views: 3252

Pearl shrimp with aragonite?

Hi, I work at a pet store and while going through one of the whole-salers stock list I saw pearl shrimp for 1.50 and just had to order some, 10 to be exact. I currently have a six gal with about a 2.5 sump set up for a saltwater mantis. To help with nitrates, I will add some peat to the sumps substr...
by cro117
Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:27 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Sticky Shrimp
Replies: 1
Views: 1476

Sticky Shrimp

Hi, I have a twenty-gallon tank exclusively for shrimp. The bottom tank is lightly covered with a fine sand-like substrate. Plants in the tank include java moss, marimo algae, hornwort, and duckweed. I feed sinking algae tablets every few days. Anyway, it seems that my shrimp sometimes have sticky f...
by cro117
Mon May 23, 2005 10:10 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Gudgeons and shrimp?
Replies: 1
Views: 731

Gudgeons and shrimp?

hi, i plan on getting some gudgeons soon and was hoping to use some ghost as cleaners. also, i would like to house some cherrys in the tank when they reach adult hood. does anyone know if gudgeons are a good mix with shrimp. i am definatly getting goo obo gudgeons but i might also get peacocks in th...
by cro117
Mon May 23, 2005 9:59 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: What too feed them....
Replies: 3
Views: 1194

if you put cucumber in the tank, you should get plenty of blue green algae: the kind that smells like soil. i'm not sure if shrimp care for this or not though, otos don't seem to.
by cro117
Thu Apr 28, 2005 9:03 am
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Fish store inquiry
Replies: 3
Views: 1197

try selling on aquabid at least that way you'll get more than $1.