Iodine and Ghost Shrimp

[Zezmo]

I have read in a few places about adding Iodine to a tank to help keep the Shrimp happy (Ghost Shrimp). The suggestions seem to say about 1 drop per 10ga of the Kent Marine Iodine, in a FW tank. Is this neccesary? Is it preferred? will it hurt my other fish and plant.

The references to this are few, but they are there. Anyone know anything more about this?

 

[Fishyfanatic]

I have never heard of adding iodine to a tank for the ghost shrimp. I would be interested to know if this is something that needs to be done.

 

[malkore]

Iodine can become toxic to all life very quickly. Marine aquarists never dose iodine for their crabs/shrimp until they test it and know for a fact that they have too low of a level.
A good iodine test (Salifert) will run you $25, and may not work on freshwater.

 

[RoK]

I saw a site that said when breeding ghost shrimp, after taking out the babies and putting into a container, to put a pinch or 2 of iodized salt in the container.
This is the link: http://www.petfish.net/raising_ghost_shrimp.htm

 

[Veneer]

There is absolutely no empirical evidence that freshwater shrimp are even capable of metabolizing aqueous iodine/iodine-based compounds from the water column. Moreover, the utility of iodine supplementation even for marine crustaceans is disputed.