About Ghost Shrimps

[reefman]

Is it a good idea, to put 2 ghost shrimp in my acuarium? I heard that they can clean all the botton of the acuarium.

Thanks.

 

[JohnPaul]

As long as you don't have fish big enough that they will eat the shrimp, yes, they will do fine. Though I don't know if two ghost shrimp by themselves would be a sufficient "cleanup crew" for a tank of any substantial size at all. Maybe for a 10 gal or smaller that would be enough, but for anything larger it would take more than just 2.

 

[meegosh]

I have probably closer to 20 ghost shrimps in my 10g with a few guppies. I started with 10-15 now its closer to 20-25 and a few are saddled (aka pregnant). I would agree that two on their own would be pretty useless as far as a clean up crew goes. If you just wanted two, I would go with Amano shrimp, they are much more efficient algae eaters than ghost shrimp.

If you can find ghost shrimp at your LFS they are usually less than a quarter a piece.. HTH

 

[CatatonicBug]

My sevrum saw several ghost shrimp, and had a nice lunch out of them... As long as the other fish in your tank won't eat them, I would suggest at least 6-12 of them. They tend to hide, and become hard to find. I have never heard of anyone actually using them as a "clean-up crew" but they do eat junk off the substrate. Be sure to give them plenty of hiding places. They tend to like lots of plants too.

 

[SpeedEuphoria]

They are deff very fast to find food dropped on the bottom, they have a great sense of smell

 

[Retaks]

I had some but most of them got eaten. They were cheap when i got them. I think they were 5 for $1.

 

[meegosh]

I thought I would add that most ghost shrimp are raised to be food. Therefore, they are not the most hardy of creatures. I once picked up 5 of them and only 3 were left the next morning.

 

[reefman]

Thanks Guys for all your help. This Site is awesome!!

 

[kimo]

" They tend to like lots of plants too. "

Ghost shrimp will not bother the plants. They are actually eating the algae off the plants... not the plants themselves.