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Just a quick question. Are wood shrimp worth 6bucks for one?? Are they useful in any way or are they just like other shrimp just have the specail claws. thanks fish1

Over here (Sweden) they cost about that. Five times as much as Amano shrimps, the only other shrimp I´ve seen in our LFS´s. They are filter feeders and probably doesn´t affect the water in any bigger way. Usually they settle somewhere close to your filter and stays there.

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So here I am once more...

Lots of them may improve water quality, but I dont think anyone would want to pay for lots of them for just a "may".

I paid $17US for mine. I love them. They are fascinating to watch and they clean out the particles in the water that look like dust. It's crystal clear.


Kim

I "may" have to try one then. The ones at my lps seem pretty healthy and look like they eat well. Do you feed them anything specific or do just just let them filter the water??

Their usual coloration when in stores is brownish. However, when they are fed enough food and are feeling comfortable they turn a nice, dark red and develop a white line down their back. They are a long lived species and live at least 5 years when kept correctly. They will survive for a long time in a community tank, but will never thrive there and will probably slowly starve to death since there won't ever be enough food for them to filter or pick up from the ground (fish are always faster). It is best to put them in a species tank or planted tank and feed them floating micro-food items. They they will also display their best colors and their various techniques of filtering food out of the water.

Filters floating food items from the water, should be given very small flake food or crushed/powderized food. Also takes food from the ground if there is nothing to filter.

See http://www.petshrimp.com/index.html- click on "Shrimp Varieties" and go down to "Filter-Feeding Shrimp".

Wood shrimp are most assuredly worthwhile aquarium inhabitants.

Last edited by Veneer at 29-Dec-2004 15:22

[link=Here]http://www.petshrimp.com/caribbeandwarffiltershrimp.html" style="COLOR: #800000[/link] is the link to the wood shrimp i think at that site for those who are too lazy to look. I think ill get one then the next time i see one. Considering now i have a little extra cash.

fish1

I think you mean this link; the one you posted was of "Caribbean Filter Shrimp", truly rare in the aquarium hobby.

I feed mine Kent Zooplex, frozen daphnia and powdered flake.


Kim

Yes. Thank you. Im thinking about keeping one in a species tank. But im not so sure the polypterus is hogging the tank atm. I was thinking of haveing an invertank but im not 100% sure i will. O well i guess i will try the shrimp in a community tank and see what happenes.



fish1

I got one of these for my 75G mostly for show. It is constantly hiding in an area of my tank that gets a build up of waste because I have a hard time gravel vaccing it. Well, since I got this shrimp the build up has almost dissapeared. I've seen him after lights out "mopping" up the sand with his modified feelers. I didn't know they did this but since my "for show" shrimp is always hiding it's a nice trade off.