Glass feeder shrimp

[Readingexcalibur]

My lfs has glass feeder shrimp. I buy these to feed my lion (weening process currently) anyhow, I was cleaning my filter sock when I noticed 4 of them in the sock so I put them in the fug. Fug has sand, LR and cheato.

Are they beneficial to the fuge?
Think the may breed in there?

 

[Readingexcalibur]

Well I purchased some more breeder shrimp for my fug. I am guessing that no one has attempted this. I would think it is fairly common for maintenance.

 

[Readingexcalibur]

Notice one shrimp feeding on another. Do these things eat algae/plants/ect?

 

[paytertot]

They will eat algae and leftover food and detrius and whatnot but I've never known them to eat plants.

 

[TigerBarbs]

They may breed in there but the eggs will get flushed out if they release them. I don't think they'd be beneficial because they might eat some pods in the fuge. Probably not enough to affect anything though.

 

[Readingexcalibur]

Gotcha, are pods beneficial to a tank that only has a lion, eel, and foxface lo? This will eventually be a reef setup. But I am just trying to get the sand and other base rock established by the live rock I have in there now.

 

[crister13]

Pods are beneficial to everything. Unless they're parasitic but you usually don't have those.