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Hi everyone. I just got 5 new ghost shrimp yesterday! Pretty cool as a few of them are definately female as they are carrying eggs around. I do have them in a tank with fish, but I've done that in the past and it worked out just fine. However, I've only seen 3 of them this morning. 2 females and 1 male. At first I could only see the male and one of the females, but then the other female turned up. Do you think they are in danger from my fish? I'm hoping the other 2 are just hiding like the 2nd female was - I'll feel really bad if something ate them!

Any tips or suggestions for my shrimp or any info on the types of fish they'll live well with?

Hey cj, I believe ghost shrimp will live with anything that isnt bigger than itself and goldfish. Guppies can live with ghost shrimp.

By the way, do you happen to know how to tell if one ghost shrimp is female or male by looking at it?

Thanks for responding to my message. As for how to tell the difference between males and females...I was able to tell really easily in this case as the females were carrying eggs around, but in general I think that females tend to be bigger and plumper looking than males. The males are usually slimmer and don't get quite as large. If you go to the Shrimp Varieties page you can get more information. Scroll down to American Freshwater Ghost/Glass Shrimp and click on the link - there are some great pictures and also information on telling the genders apart.

Thanks again for the reply!

Goldfish will eat shrimp and guppies can take ghosts apart... that happend to me.

TKD

I have a male GS with a male Betta. He (the Betta) is pretty "tame", and does not bother them. I have 6 GS babies that will soon join my lone male in the Betta tank (5.5g-planted). As far as telling them a part...out of the 4 that I see all the time, at least 1 is female...I forget how old they are now, but they have yet to saddle, but I can tell one is female.

Good Luck on your GS...I kept my GS fry? in with my RCS...all fresh water...1tbsp of salt to 5g of water (2tbsp for a 10g tank)...lost all but 6 out of 36+ larva by putting them in brackish water.

Guppies tore apart your GS? Never happened to be before.

Suzie Q, shrimps require aquarium salt?

ohno123 wrote:

Suzie Q, shrimps require aquarium salt?

You may want to know what you are talking about before you make this type of statemant again.
You may want to read the Forum Rules again before posting .

This Forum is for factual information.
John

Newjohn wrote:ohno123 wrote:

Suzie Q, shrimps require aquarium salt?

You may want to know what you are talking about before you make this type of statemant again.
You may want to read the Forum Rules again before posting .

This Forum is for factual information.
John

I think he was aking a question.

TKD

OK, folks, Time out, everyone step back and lets see what is being asked.

The first thing to determine is what type of shrimp you actually have. There are dozens of shrimp called ghost/glass/grass shrimp and until you know what species you have, you can not determine the requirements.

Post some detailed pics of both male & female and we'll give it a shot.

TKD wrote:

Newjohn wrote:ohno123 wrote:

Suzie Q, shrimps require aquarium salt?

You may want to know what you are talking about before you make this type of statemant again.
You may want to read the Forum Rules again before posting .

This Forum is for factual information.
John

I think he was aking a question.

TKD

I'm pretty sure John was getting irritated by the "I believe ghost shrimp will live with anything that isnt bigger than itself and goldfish." statement above, too. I can't blame John....we really want to base things on actual experiences than "I believe" type of statements based on next to no experience (=newby).

OhNo123 is just not doing much research in this forum it seems....(actually it's pretty clear). There was already a "last" warning...but I happen to be a in a good mood today since my shrimp arrived here from New York!!! Yayyyy!! So, OhNo123....keep quiet for a while (maybe a few weeks or so) until you have gotten around to researching this forum and the articles for a few hours and days. It takes a long time to look up things but it's very rewarding to finally know what's going on. This is is really the *final* warning.

Mustafa wrote:but I happen to be a in a good mood today since my shrimp arrived here from New York!!! Yayyyy!!

You gonna give us an update about your shrimps and their/your move? Or is that about all you have to say in terms of an update

Terran wrote:

Mustafa wrote:but I happen to be a in a good mood today since my shrimp arrived here from New York!!! Yayyyy!!

You gonna give us an update about your shrimps and their/your move? Or is that about all you have to say in terms of an update

I don't want to hijack this thread. Suffice it to say that the move is complete. There were pretty much no losses during shipping but some (expected) losses afterwards as the tanks are brand-new set-ups. All the inoculation with the old sponges and whatnot will not be all that useful when you stuff hundreds of shrimp in a new tank, even if they were happily living and breeding in their old tank. Tanks do need to mature and settle over time and losses can and will happen in such high volume tanks. The more shrimp you have in a tank, the bigger the problems and the more you have to watch it.

Anyway, the show will go on.