Ghost shrimp
Palaemonetes paludosus
Also called glass shrimp, feeder shrimp.
Sold as feeders, so they arrive in poor shape. Big ones will take fry.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 4 cm
- Smallest sensible tank
- 20 L, at least 30 cm long
- Temperature
- 20 to 28 °C
- pH
- 6.5 to 8
- Hardness
- 5 to 20 dGH
- Kept in
- groups of 4 or more
- Temperament
- peaceful
- Eats
- omnivore
- Swims
- near the bottom
- How hard
- easy
- Lives
- about 1 years
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a ghost shrimp fits the tank you have.