ID saltwater shrimp, please

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Claw Atticas

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I had these shrimp (clear with black or dark brown stripes and spots, the color depending on what they eat) in my aquarium a while back, having caught them from the seagrass beds right off the beach in southern Florida, but have no idea what they are. Unfortunately, these pictures are all I have, and they've been eaten by the pinfish (Lagodon Rhomboides) seen in the background of the first picture so I can't get any more pictures. The only two shrimp I know that look like this are grass shrimp, or amano shrimp, but those are both freshwater shrimp, and the ones I had survived for over a month in saltwater, and came from saltwater.

Below, the shrimp is at the bottom of the picture, chewing on a brine shrimp flake (The orange flakes at the bottom)
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And below this picture, there is one shrimp in the foreground that had recently eaten a brine shrimp flake (notice the orange color through his clear body), and a shrimp in the background eating a brine shrimp flake
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Also I've caught a number of these shrimp as juveniles, and they look like blades of grass encased in a clear cover (like ice), leading me to believe they are in fact grass shrimp.
 
Hmmm, is this a brackish tank?
If so, we can move it to the FW/Brackish section.

Welcome to the site!
 
"having caught them from the seagrass beds right off the beach in southern Florida"
DUH, sorry I missed that! LOL!
I'll move this to the SW ID section.
Come on now, I am having an off night...it's already in the SW ID section....wow, I need a vacation!
 
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Looks like a penaeid to me - though it's hard to tell from the photo. This family (Panaeidae) includes the bulk of the commercially fished (for food) shrimp species.

Tony
 
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