Marine shrimp

[Matt_95]

Does anyone here keep any marine shrimp or is thinking of marine shrimp? I used to keep a few species many years ago, I kept redline cleaner shrimp, coral banded shrimp, anemone shrimp and peppermint shrimp. Breeding the marine shrimp would pose a far greater challenge than the freshwater shrimp currently in the hobby. You need a Kreisler to breed them. Surprisingly most don't have the same sort of price tags associated with the freshwater shrimp even though they're far more difficult to breed. Sexy shrimp, blood shrimp and harlequin shrimp are some of my favourites, sexies are around $30, blood shrimp cost around $120 and harlequins are around $900 a pair if you can find them, I think these guys are awesome, I'm planning on getting some marine shrimp again soon as well as stomatapods AKA mantis shrimp.

[doctr-dan]

We have a coral banded shrimp aka serial killer he is a aggressive fellow

[Matt_95]

They are aggressive, I used to keep a pair of them in a 6 foot tank, I added a third without realising how aggressive they were. It was dead by morning.

[bailey88]

How cool is the mantis shrimp watched a doco ages ago on them and was very keen to see it in action at the townsville aquarium but he wasn't very active :(

[Matt_95]

They are very awesome, they're not really shrimp though, they're stomatapods, the peackocks are some of the most beautiful invertebrates I have ever seen. Another formidable looking one is the zebra mantis shrimp, it gets 30cm long.

[doctr-dan]

Arent there 2 types of mantis shrimp, the type that stab everything or the type that smash everything!

[Matt_95]

Some have a smashing appendage, some have a spearing appendage and some have both.

[doctr-dan]

I swapped the coral banded for a red line cleaner today!

[Sprae]

We need photos! :P

My local LFS has peppermints, red bloods, coral banded and a few others. They look really great. Much bigger than our CRS and cherries...

[Loach]

And alot more colourful! Really want a few peppermints!

[isfrael]

I bought a pair of coral banded shrimp years ago for my no longer existing marine tank, the so called pair killed each other pretty damn fast, beautiful shrimp though.

Mantis Shrimp are amazing, everyone should try keeping them at least once, so cool to interact with, and most you can get from LFS are tiny, so a nice little nano marine will do, with plenty of LR.

I am off to Thailand in 2 weeks, apparently you can eat them there, I shall be trying one :p

[smicko]

i needed some peppermint shrimp to clean up aptasia, the bloke at the lfs gave me 1 male, 2 females, 1 with eggs for $50. are they hard to breed?

[Matt_95]

Much harder than the shrimp in the freshwater hobby, the larvae need a special set up and have to be fed live foods such as BBS and cocopods.

[Dean]

hay matt, i have just started setting up a 200ltr cube this week which will be my test run at breeding some of the marine shrimp :)

i have only just finished making the sump so still a way to go...

i will be starting with peppermints first :)

[Loach]

Pics please Dean :victorious:

[Dean]

will create a thread once i get a bit further ahead with it. cycling the tank will take a while :)