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Oops. Brainfart. I mixed up M lanchesteri and M lamarrei, I had thought they were the M lamarrei. M lanchesteri are ghost/glass/grass shrimp arent they? But I have a whole tank of ghost shrimp and the 3 "whisker" shrimp are at least double the size of the ghosties. Im gonna go put them in ...

I believe you are right! I had thought that might be it when I first started looking, but ive read several places theyre "believed to be vegetarian" and mine DEVOUR snails(I originally had them in a community tank with a clown loach I crushed snails for and the whisker shrimp wrestled the ...

Well this Is with my phone camera so Its not very good but its all it will let me post.

I cant upload a pic, it says file too big. I tried my phone, my camera, and my tablet and thats what it says everytime. =( I even got a few decent pics... but no the shrimp are not that big, they are 3inches and havent gotten any bigger in the 3-4months ive had them. From the pictures ive compared t...

CRS are easy to care for as long as the tank is well filtered and you dont over feed. I have a 10 gal nearly overpopulated with them(had to start another tank) they are like all dwarf shrimp in that you should NOT feed foods with copper as its toxic to them, but they will eat pretty much anything, f...

Thank you. I have since had luck with the fancy shrimp and theyre breeding steadily. I had to set up another tank because they overpopulated my 10 gal. My new problem is breeding whisker shrimp. Haha

Several months ago i stumbled upon a few "ghost shrimp" that were definitely NOT ghost shrimp, they are long armed with bluish claws(macrobrachium sp from pictures ive compared) i got them, cant find any GOOD solid information on optimum temp/breeding/raising the larval stage. a couple wee...

Ive recently become interested in the shrimp hobby. I started with a few ghost shrimp and 1 RCS and ended up with a 10gal ghost shrimp tank with numerous aults and 30+ baby ghosties & 2 guppies and a 10gal fancy shrimp tank because I obtained a pregnant crystal red shrimp and I read that ghost s...