I Have Found A Shrimp In My Tank

[LolaLouie]

A shrimp has turned up in my tank (I have no idea where from unless he made it in the 2 hour journey in no water in my new plants!)

Anyway he looks just like an Amano shrimp but he is black with a white stripe down his body.

Does anyone know what that sounds like? I would take a pic but he's pretty small and hidden in the plants so I don't think a pic would help much.

If anyone does know what he is.. how big will he grow? Just want to make sure he's not some fish eating lobster rather than a lost little shrimp.

Thanks

 

[dilbert]

You can look up a photo of an Amano shrimp on the Web.

Then there are also all sorts of glass or ghost shrimp that look similar to some extent. If your shrimp got tiny little claws then it could be a long-arm shrimp of the genus Macrobrachium. Those are also called glass or ghost sometimes or river shrimps ...

In that case it could grow to a size where the claws become more powerful. But that won't happen overnight.

The Amano shrimps have their eyes closer to the body whereas the long-arm shrimp have them somewhat extended and the Amano shrimps don't have little arms with tiny claws.

 

[Shrimper]

Amano shrimps don't have little arms with tiny claws.

Not strickly true, they do have short arms with tiny claws on the end that they use for picking algae from things. These arms are shorter than their legs and are too small to hurt anything.

The arms on the Macro species are much longer and are easily visible.

Without a picture it would be hard to identify the shrimp. Have a look at www.shrimpnow.com, it has a good list of shrimp species and hopefully the one you have.

 

[pat3612]

If he is dark brown with a biege stripe down the back he could be a bamboo shrimp this happened to me the little guy was nowwhere to be seen then he showed up at 3ins now he roams all over the tank eating alge he really does clean up Iam going to pick up a couple more.

 

[dilbert]

Surely. Thanks for correcting that. Got confused with little and long and short.

The shrimps of that size are all little.

But the long-arm shrimps have those long arms (long even when little) and the Amanos have short arms (short and little ). But simply saying "little" wasn't the point and made absolutely no sense and was confusing.