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If you are in Central Florida and looking for shrimp that Mustafa doesn't sell, Ocean Blue had Yamatos, Wood, and Chameleon shrimp today. They may also have cherries.

Talking about Florida shrimp, I noticed that there are two variaties of freshwater glass shrimp (Palaemontes spp.) in Florida. One is the typical and very common shrimp with the red bands on its antennae and it's claws and the other one is a Palaemonetes sp., which stays smaller, does not have any red on its body and altogether looks much more gracile than the common Palaemonetes paludosus. They also have much smaller claws. I wonder if those are Palaemonetes kadiakensis, which also occur in at least northern to central Florida.

Brad, do you catch your ghost shrimp yourself? If so, try looking for those without the red on their bodies.

I have both varieties here in my tanks, but I don't think I have any females of the second, rarer variety.

Mustafa

All of my are red-banded, but I will keep an eye out for the others. I will be spending some time in Ocala (further north from Orlando) in a few months. There are more understurbed waters up there than here, so maybe I'll find something.

Keep an eye out any crustaceans actually. US crustaceans and especially shrimp species have not been documented fully, so you might actually discover a new species if you're lucky.

Mustafa

I live in orlando, and was wondering if you could give me some advice on how to catch some shrimp around this area? I live close to downtown orlando, but go out to the ocala area frequently. Any tips would be great. Looking to get a few shrimp to help me get going in this hobby.

Thanks
Ryan

Hi Ryan!

You will need to find a little creek, river or pond/lake with some vegetation the sides or leave cover on the ground. That's where the shrimp like to hide. The rest is all about having a big enough dip net to go through the vegetation and you should be able to come up with some shrimp in the net. Of course this won't work every time since you need to find the location first where these shrimp like haning out most of the time.

Mustafa

Thankyou very much,
I was wondering if anyone knew of other shrimp in Florida that are compatible for the aquaria?

Thankyou once again,
Ryan

Kymani wrote:Thankyou very much,
I was wondering if anyone knew of other shrimp in Florida that are compatible for the aquaria?

Thankyou once again,
Ryan

--There are several Macrobrachium species in the US that you might be able to find in Florida waters. Just look out for larger shrimp with long arms. Some of them get pretty big though.

Thanks for the help! I was at a lfs and they had some ghost shrimp, 12 for 1.50...so I juts bought them lol. I want to get some crystal reds soon, or possibly cherry reds, which would you say are hardier? I dont want to get something I wont beable to breed, because that does no good for the hobby, which is common in hobbies like the PDF hobby which is annoying, people wanting to get the rarest frog just to beable to say its rare.

Thanks again!
Ryan

You're welcome! The Red Cherries are hardier than the Crystal Reds, but under the right conditions both will breed and fill up your tank.

Take care,
Mustafa

Hello
I was told that there are shrimp that live in michigan.
Is this true or false.
thanks for any help.
John

My experience with crystal reds and red cherries are quite different from other dutch petshrimp keepers/breeders... My cr are breeding quite well (although there are some periods when there are no eggs at all), but the red cherries were not breeding untill last week. I've had them for more than 5 months and now, finally, there are three females carrying the beautifull yellow eggs!!
But in most tanks, red cherries are easy to keep and breed. A friend of mine catches over 50 young red cherries a week in the intern filter in the juwel aquarium tank...
My best breeding experiences are with the white pearl shrimps... the're just unstoppable!! I've got to find a buyer soon, cause my tank is overcrowding now. And I've just got them 2 months ago!!
Again about the red cherries... they supposed to be much easier with the water parameters and medicine than crystal reds. Remerber, crystals are an mutation of the bee shrimps (caridina serrata) and they are all inbreeds... So it is easy to explain why they are a bit more difficult to keep and breed. It's actually a bit against nature to reproduce this specie. (in the wild they would probably never survive). But still it's a nice shrimp to keep (there so pretty!!) and breed. They don't produce as much youngsters as the red cherries do, but I think that's not that big a deal. Here in the Netherlands, these crystals reds are very expensive, about 10 euro's (I think also about 10 dollars in US?) a piece... But I breed them for a purpose: to sell them at a much lower price than in the local fish stores. And I love doing that!

(I'm sorry for the bad English, hope you all understand it... I'm a good reader of the English language, cause my college books are all in this language, but the writing and speaking is still difficult, especially the grammar ...)

Eh, I guarantee your English is better than my knowledge of your language.

LOL, Dutch is quite hard for foreign people... but most of the time the people who moved over to the Netherlands from an other country are much better in it...
But the most important thing is that we can understand each other

Newjohn wrote:Hello
I was told that there are shrimp that live in michigan.
Is this true or false.
thanks for any help.
John

The freshwater glass shrimp Palaemonetes kadiakensis should occur up there. It occurs in the great lakes and has a pretty wide distribution along the Mississippi drainage down south to northern Florida.