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I absolutely agree

I've seen C. serratirostris being sold by Arizona Aquatic Gardens. They *are* expensive, but they're pretty cool-looking.

-Naomi

gnome wrote:I've seen C. serratirostris being sold by Arizona Aquatic Gardens. They *are* expensive, but they're pretty cool-looking.

-Naomi

Hello Naomi,

AZgardens never sold C. serratirostris, they just advertised (and still advertise) with the Picture of C. serratirostris and its name but sold other shrimp instead. If you notice...they have changed the name of the shrimp to bumblebee shrimp, but still kept the picture of a C. serratirostris. Go figure... The name change happened after I told them that they are NOT selling C. serratirostris after I test-ordered some and received Bumblebees (which died within a day as most other shrimp I had ordered from them back then).

In this case, as in many other cases, BUYER BEWARE!

Mustafa

Shoulda figured... I had wondered why they changed the name. Over a year ago, I was considering (with more than a little apprehension) going in on a group-order to purchase plants and critters from them, but couldn't find enough interested local hobbyists. I would have purchased maybe two of the "ninja shrimp" but I guess it's just as well that plan fell through - I would have ended up paying $6 for a $1.50 shrimp...

Why aren't there any cool algae-eating shrimp that are indigenous to the U.S.? Seems like all we have are those creepy-looking fairy shrimp or ghost/glass shrimp. What a bummer.

-Naomi

gnome wrote: Why aren't there any cool algae-eating shrimp that are indigenous to the U.S.? Seems like all we have are those creepy-looking fairy shrimp or ghost/glass shrimp. What a bummer.

-Naomi

Hi Naomi,

That's a really good question. The US is, however, THE hotspot of crayfish diversity in the world with several hundred species and new ones discovered every year.

We do have several species of Macrobrachium (Longarm) shrimp in the US. There is one "algae eating" Atyid shrimp in California, but it is extremely rare and protected. It's not all that colorful though. In my opinion they should provide limited numbers of that shrimp to serious breeders (like me) so the shrimp can survive in the hands of serious hobbyists/breeders.

Other than that you should know that the decopod fauna (to which shrimp belong) has been poorly investigated in the US, so it would not surprise me if several more species of shrimp are discovered in the US in the future.

Take care,
Mustafa
PS: Puerto Rico (being a US territory) has several algae eating and filter feeding shrimp by the way.