Ghost shrimp ID?
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 6:57 am
I got 6 ghost shrimp from Petsmart a couple months ago, in the end only one survived (as far as I know) and she is a monster. I didn't realize how big she'd gotten until I recently added some cherry shrimp. It's difficult to get a good picture, but I got a few last night, hoping to determine if she actually is a "ghost/glass shrimp" or something else. She's molted twice (very nicely, too) in the past 3-4 weeks.
She NEVER swims (that I've seen) like the RCS do, only crawls around the tank. She stands very tall up on her legs, unlike the other "ghosts" I had and unlike the cherries. She does have a fair amount of color to her, but I know that can be the case with ghost shrimp, anyway. She's about the same size or a little larger than my dwarf crays, so I'm just starting to wonder if she's a large adult ghost shrimp or a juvie of some other variety since she just seems to get bigger and bigger..
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... rimp-1.jpg
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... hrimp3.jpg
Here she is by a berried RCS. She actually looks smaller in the photo, probably because the RCS is closer- she towers over those things (But has yet to show any real aggression, just waves her arms at anything that gets too close to her).
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... imp2-1.jpg
Thanks!
She NEVER swims (that I've seen) like the RCS do, only crawls around the tank. She stands very tall up on her legs, unlike the other "ghosts" I had and unlike the cherries. She does have a fair amount of color to her, but I know that can be the case with ghost shrimp, anyway. She's about the same size or a little larger than my dwarf crays, so I'm just starting to wonder if she's a large adult ghost shrimp or a juvie of some other variety since she just seems to get bigger and bigger..
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... rimp-1.jpg
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... hrimp3.jpg
Here she is by a berried RCS. She actually looks smaller in the photo, probably because the RCS is closer- she towers over those things (But has yet to show any real aggression, just waves her arms at anything that gets too close to her).
http://i126.photobucket.com/albums/p86/ ... imp2-1.jpg
Thanks!