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Hi there, It sounds like you've done an excellent job! I have also recently bred my ghosties and I have babies everywhere! I find it hard to get an accurate count because my tank is full of java moss and they are swimming and crawling over everything. My two big females are carrying eggs again and i...

I made the water brackish so the nerite eggs can hatch but I read that the increased salinity will not harm the shrimp at all and it hasn't

I'm virtually certain they are the Palaemonetes species as they look identical to the ones you have here listed as ghost shrimp. I keep them in a 30 gallon tank with only some nerite snails as companionship. I have two sponge filters in there, one is a powerhead with a sponge on the intake and the t...

Hi all!
I just saw my first teeny tiny baby ghost shrimp on one of my sponge filters! It's so cute! I thought they were planktonic in nature. If they are, does this mean it was swimming around as a 'plankton' and has now molted to it's sedentary form? I hope I see more of them...

Hi! I'm new here and I wanted to share with everyone what happened to me when I recently bought some ghost shrimp. I had recently been wanting to get some ghost shrimp and when My LFS had them for sale again I decided to get some . After preparing one of my tanks (30 gallon which had been set up for...