Ask Guy about these shrimp. I got some for him last month along with some seagrasses. I'm curious to see how they are doing also. He put them in his sump. I'm not sure exactly which ones i collected but i know it was at least two different types of shrimp from the list below.
Grass Shrimp
Palaemonetes sp.
Broken Back Shrimp
Hippolyte sp.
White Shrimp
Penaeus setifers
Pink Shrimp
Penaeus duorarum
Brown Shrimp
Penaeus aztecus
COMMENTS ON FOOD -
Grass shrimp eat a wide variety of aquatic foods. Depending on the availability of a particular food they may be detritivores, primary consumers, or secondary consumers.
As detritivores, grass shrimp aid in the mechanical breakdown of refractory organic material such as fibrous plant materials, as well as assimilate the associated microflora, microfauna, and fungi. The assimilation of dissolved organic matter sorbed to finely divided particulate matter such as clay particles is important in grass shrimp nutrituion. Although grass shrimp often live among aquatic macrophytes, there is little evidence that the macrophyte structure is actually consumed. More likely, grass shrimp eat
and assimilate the epiphytic microalgae that coat the plant structure. Grass shrimp also are predators of meiofauna and small infaunal polychaetes, oligochaetes, nematodes,and even motile prey such as mysids. As epibenthic predators and sediment disturbers, grass shrimp alter infaunal community
structure. For example, in North Carolina a sharp decline in the abundance of P. pugio due to predation by mummichogs (Fundulus heteroclitus) brought about significant changes in infaunal composition.*73*
This info was taken from this site:
http://fwie.fw.vt.edu/WWW/macsis/lists/M070010.htm
