Blue Wood Shrimp?

[Gankutsuou]

I believe one of my lfs's has on of the shrimp labled as "Giant blue wood shrimp" and it's for $15. But it's quite the amazing armored shrimp. They have it living with an Ornate bichir, and it's totally fine, and doesn't seem to do too much to the fish. It is about the size of say... a betta head to tail. alost as tall at top tail to bottom body. Anyone know anything? google isn't doing much even when i type in blue shrimp, and i perfer to know it it's going to be eating neon's ect. BEFORE I buy it.

 

[Boxermom]

I've never seen a blue one but wood shrimp are filter feeders, which means they have fan-like appendages on their front "feet" and scoop microscopic stuff from the water column to eat. They help keep the tank sparkling clean. They grow large though, 4-6 inches, so need a good size tank. Should be in a well-planted tank. Should only be with peaceful, non-invert eating fish.

 

[Gankutsuou]

so is $15 a good price, and will it attack the cardinals/small fish like those?

 

[Boxermom]

It doesn't have anything to attack with. And $15 is a lot, IMO. My wood shrimp was $6.

 

[Gankutsuou]

but then again, you did see you had never seen a blue one... It did match your description on size and what it looked like though... so hmmm...

 

[adam98150]

I have a blue one, cost me around £8.

 

[Gankutsuou]

8 Euros = 10.2184 U.S. dollars

so basically, I'm paying $5 more for the only one i've ever seen in the entire dallas area.... worth it imo.
do they add on to the bioload a lot, considering the cleaning ect, or do they almost count for nothing?

 

[wodesorel]

If it is a filter-feeder, they don't seem to add much to a tank. I have one bamboo shrimp (that's what they call the species here in Ohio) that does poo a lot, but never made the tank hiccup when introduced.

Mine actually isn't doing too well right now, and I have no clue why. I had one die the first night I had it - this one has been here a month and has made one molt so far.

Blue seems to be a natural mutation color for most invertabrates. It's just in the wild, something blue makes an easy to find lunch. So when bred in capitivity, the blues do make it to breeding age and therefore pass on their genes, making it more common, expecially because it's such a desired colour. Farmed crayfish, shrimp (I have blue ghost shrimp, at least), and snails all come in blue now.

 

[BigIan]

did the shrimp look like this as i notice you refer to "the amazing armored shrimp." in your first post. if so 15 dollars is a good price cos i`ve seen them for 15 pounds over here

or did it look like this

www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=37051447
inwich case it is a bamboo/wood/stone/mountain shrimp, in wich case thats expencive as there 3.99 ovcer here

 

[Gankutsuou]

Big Ian... There is not link to the first one... so i don't know what "this" Is, but it looks nothing like the second one. It's not see through at all. It's a solid blue and it literally looks like it has armor.
really looked more like http/www.petshrimp.com/africanfiltershrimp.html

 

[wodesorel]

That's a great price for a Vampire shrimp! That's even better than a wood shrimp, I think, because not many places carry them. I've never seen them around here!

 

[Gankutsuou]

hmmm....
actually, went to check it out....
it's a $20 shrimp who unfortunatly, classified as wood, can eat fish.... yay....

 

[adam98150]

8 Euros = 10.2184 U.S. dollars

so basically, I'm paying $5 more for the only one i've ever seen in the entire dallas area.... worth it imo.
do they add on to the bioload a lot, considering the cleaning ect, or do they almost count for nothing?

Ha ha ha, £- this is a POUND sign, not euro.

 

[Gankutsuou]

my bad oo'

 

[Boxermom]

it's a $20 shrimp who unfortunatly, classified as wood, can eat fish.... yay....

Sounds more like a crayfish than a shrimp. I don't know of any shrimp that eat fish. Try going to bluecrayfishdotcom and see if that's what it looks like.