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Do ghost shrimp often carry diseases? I would like to buy some to try to get some fish of mine to start eating but I am worried about disease. Do I have good reason to?

Not really. Most ghost shrimp deaths are from shipping and acclimating stress or from poor water quality. All shrimp are extremely sensitive to ammonia. Very rarely do they suffer from diseases. Whenever I buy new ones I toss any that die to the goby in my saltwater tank and have never worried about illnesses. They are quite easy to breed though once you get a cycled tank with some low light plants setup so most people I know that feed them with any frequency just keep 6-12 in a small 5-10g tank and let them multiply. Since they produce so little waste a tank of shrimp is also one of the lowest maintenance aquariums you can setup. I did water changes about every 6months on my shrimp only tank. It's also got tadpoles in it right now though.