What's the difference......

lbannie

Member
Maybe this is a dumb question but, Is there a difference between marine feeder shrimp and ghost shrimp (like they have at petsmart)? Is it beneficial to put these in my tank as another food source? From what I've read they can live in fresh or salt water? What do you think? Thanks!!
 
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saxman

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FW ghosties (Paleomonetes sp.) and "grass shrimp" (Palaemonetes pugio) are basically the same...it's where they're collected from. "FW" ghosties are collected from the estuaries where the salinity can be very low, however, they are also found in SW grassbeds off the Gulf Coast. You can actually slowly acclimate them to SW if you're so inclined.
However, if you're using them as a food item, all you really need to do is enrich them by feeding them a good quality marine flake food, spirulina, beta glucan, etc and feed them out. Whenever we get new scorps in that need to be conditioned prior to weaning them, we keep a critter keeper with a small HOB filter (such as a Palm Filter) running for them.
HTH
 
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