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	QT Ghost Shrimp
greenmonkey51 Fish Master Posts: 1571 Kudos: 1692 Votes: 5 Registered: 28-Jan-2004	Im thinking of getting some ghost shrimp but there always sold as feeders. Would you need to qt them. Can they carry any dieseases.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:27
illustrae Fish Addict Posts: 820 Kudos: 876 Registered: 04-May-2005	Inverts don't usually carry diseases that are harmful to fish, though if you have other inverts, you will want to quarantine the shrimp. However, the water that they come in may house fish diseases, so definitely take your time acclimating the new shrimp and don't pour the water you bought them in into your tank. Hoping that there must be a word for everything I mean...
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:27
openwater Fish Addict Posts: 565 Kudos: 551 Votes: 0 Registered: 24-Jul-2004	Just in case you haven't got them before, they have the ability to jump. They can leap out of the net when transfering them, sometimes its like handling grasshoppers.
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:27
Callatya Moderator The girl's got crabs! Posts: 9662 Kudos: 5261 Registered: 16-Sep-2001	rinse them if they are in a tank with fish. not sticking them under a tap, but stick them in a quarrantine bucket with somthing to eat for a few hours until they have passed everything through their digestive tract For animals, the entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. - Terry Pratchett
Posted 26-Jan-2006 11:27


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