Gettin' Some Snowball Shrimp!!

AnneRiceBowl · Post by **AnneRiceBowl** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 4:57 am

YAY!!! I'm getting some snowball shrimp from a member on another forum!! I'm so happy!!!! I've been wanting some for awhile, and I'm finally going for it because this guy gave me a great deal! Any who! I have a somewhat empty 10 gallon that I'll put them in. I'm going to load the tank with Java fern for them. I think I'll move my 4 otos back in, and move my ABN into my 20 gallon long RCS tank.

I just want to make sure that I have everything correct for them:

Require same care as RCS. Correct?

These shrimp will make 4 species in my care. The others that I have are ghosts, Singapore, and RCS.

milalic · Post by **milalic** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:20 am

http://www.petshrimp.com/snowballshrimp.html

AnneRiceBowl · Post by **AnneRiceBowl** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 7:28 am

Thanks mililac! I've looked there. lol

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:11 am

Snowballs look great and they are a hardy bunch. I have also got some recently and like them so much! Mine are living in hard basic water and are active and look great. Temperature does not seem to be a major factor with them. I have willow moss and floating java moss with them and it looks wonderful, good contrast of white and green. Best wishes with your new shrimp

YuccaPatrol · Post by **YuccaPatrol** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 9:52 am

What are "singapore" shrimp?

Annako · Post by **Annako** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 12:01 pm

Grats! I would love to have some of them one day, but I would need a new apartment/house, my living room looks like a mini aquarium, I should start charging admission....

They will look so pretty swimiing in the green moss. Oh! You have to post pictures when everything is set up.

Pea-brain · Post by **Pea-brain** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:14 pm

YuccaPatrol wrote:What are "singapore" shrimp?

http://www.petshrimp.com/bambooshrimp.html

another name for asian filter shrimp. I have one of these too. They are sometimes sold under this name

AnneRiceBowl · Post by **AnneRiceBowl** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:16 pm

Singapore shrimp are also called Wood shrimp, babmboo shrimp, Asian filter shrimp, and flower shrimp. Their Latin name is Aytopsis moluccenis (spelling on that last name?). I have a thread/log on here for the rearing.

In my apartment, I have one 5 gallon in the kitchen, 4 tanks + 2 empties on the floor in the dining room, and 4 tanks in the living room. The 2 empties on the floor are for my shrimp experiment that a local fish group member loaned to me. So, I have 8 tanks that are mine. That makes 10 tanks in my apartment. I think I am running out of sockets, because I am looking for ways to expand my socket numbers without burning down the apartment building. I guess it's a good thing that I have insurance.

I would have tanks in every room in the apartment, but I've already agreed to no tanks in the bedrooms, and I think tanks in the bathrooms is just plain gross on all levels

Neonshrimp: I have the same water as you, and all my shrimp species breed like there's Viagra in the water! With using water that's 8.2 out of the tap that's aged with Prime for one week, I get a 7.0 pH reading out of all of the tanks.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Wed Nov 08, 2006 6:17 pm

This shrimp has more names than any other shrimp I know! There needs to be a cutoff that limits the amount of common names allowed. One day they will call it "Shrimp with many names and has arms that look like fans"

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 3:08 pm

Haha, at my LFS the "Bamboo shrimp" is called "6-leg shrimp"....Yargh....Too many common names.

yoink · Post by **yoink** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:32 pm

Mine were purchased as marble shrimp.

YuccaPatrol · Post by **YuccaPatrol** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 4:37 pm

The Fisherman wrote:Haha, at my LFS the "Bamboo shrimp" is called "6-leg shrimp"....Yargh....Too many common names.

and people complain that they can't keep track of scientific names. . . .

The Fisherman · Post by **The Fisherman** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 9:28 pm

Yeah, I always learn the scientific name of all my aquatic critters. Hehe, I try to memorize all of them too...I can resite the name of and proper spelling of every genus of pufferfish....working on shrimp too.

-John

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Thu Nov 09, 2006 10:21 pm

Great job John, I will remember who to ask in the future when I get stuck on a scientific name

AnneRiceBowl · Post by **AnneRiceBowl** » Fri Nov 10, 2006 3:12 am

*AHEM!* Ya'll hijacked my thread and forced me to say "ya'll"!!!!!!

LMAO

I'm also learning the Latin names of the species that I keep.

LMAO