Ghost shrimp

[Basketcase]

Does anyone know of a LFS that sells ghost shrimp for the marine enviroment. I can find them for my freshwater all day.
TIA

[seehorse]

MF had them and I tried them...they were kind of cool b/c you just put them all in but...problem i see is that it's kind of like setting up an all you can eat buffet!

[Basketcase]

Thats what I need them for.

[Ray1214]

There is another way. I ordered some from Florida. I think Florida-Pets or something like that. I wanted to setup a breeding stock and bought 100 of em. (That failed miserably).

Or I actually just bought the freshwater ones. Put them in a tank, and acclimated them slowly.

Another way, if you don't mind killing off half of the ones you buy, is to get like 20 of them, drop them in a saltwater tank. Remember that next moring you will have an ammonia issue if you don't remove the dead ones from the bottom, but I do have about 15 of them with my pipefish.

Ray

[seehorse]

I put 2 dozen in my tank and they were gone in about 24hrs...normally 24 lasts me about 3-4 days

[iamdickie]

Originally Posted by Ray1214

There is another way. I ordered some from Florida. I think Florida-Pets or something like that. I wanted to setup a breeding stock and bought 100 of em. (That failed miserably).

Or I actually just bought the freshwater ones. Put them in a tank, and acclimated them slowly.

Another way, if you don't mind killing off half of the ones you buy, is to get like 20 of them, drop them in a saltwater tank. Remember that next moring you will have an ammonia issue if you don't remove the dead ones from the bottom, but I do have about 15 of them with my pipefish.

Ray

will they live in a saltwater tank for any period of time if acclamated properly?

[Ray1214]

Right now I have about 10 in with my pipefish. They seem to do just fine. They were the freshwater variety and i figured I am out about 3 bucks and no worries. I have them as detrius eaters and I am considering adding them to my refugium so that their babies produce plankton for my reef. But I have a small refugium right now.

Ray

[Stanfill Reef]

I believe that the Fish Store and More carries them locally.

[Basketcase]

Thanks for the help but the reason I wanted them is gone now. My wife bought me a dwarf lion this weekend and it died today. I was so hoping I had found a way to get rid of my ****sels.

[Melissa]

Basketcase,
I'm sorry to hear about your lionfish! That's awful.

Do you know what happened?

Melissa