I like shrimps....help me add some.

[Hulley]

I have a RSR 350 and already have a cleaner, fire and peppermint shrimp, I would like to add some more, maybe another cleaner or fire or something.

What would be a good addition that is reef safe and get along with other shrimps? These guys are my favorites and have tons of character!

I do plan on getting a bonded goby/pistol pair soon. The only fish in my tank is a Tomini Tang and a lawn mower blenny.

This is Frankie, I cant get a good pic of the tang yet.

 

[Katrina71]

 

[starypotter]

I like shrimps too! I have the same shrimps as you, and a candy pistol shrimp in QT. Same size tank more of less, mine is a standard 75. Now I don't know what fish you plan to stock with, but I have about 5 ghost shrimp in my tank. Ghost, grass, feeder, whatever you want to call them. They actually do a surprising amount of clean up crew work, they even like GHA and whatever fish food I drop in there. They're always swimming around and doing something, and since I have a mix there's 2 always with a bunch of eggs, and I do think that a couple survive on occasion to at least get to be a visible size, so hey free pod like food! Of course if you get a fish that'll eat them then that goes out the window. I don't have any fish in the display yet so might want to check first with your stocking plans.
Today one even attacked and ate a monster bristle worm.
I'd love to see what other suggestions people come up with.

 

[starypotter]

That was going to be my next suggestion!

 

[Katrina71]

Pederson shrimp. Beautiful and very social. Not sure about compatibility with what you have.

 

[Hulley]

Is that a Pederson? I'm sure I misspelled that.

Ha! We posted at the same time.

 

[Hulley]

I like shrimps too! I have the same shrimps as you, and a candy pistol shrimp in QT. Same size tank more of less, mine is a standard 75. Now I don't know what fish you plan to stock with, but I have about 5 ghost shrimp in my tank. Ghost, grass, feeder, whatever you want to call them. They actually do a surprising amount of clean up crew work, they even like GHA and whatever fish food I drop in there. They're always swimming around and doing something, and since I have a mix there's 2 always with a bunch of eggs, and I do think that a couple survive on occasion to at least get to be a visible size, so hey free pod like food! Of course if you get a fish that'll eat them then that goes out the window. I don't have any fish in the display yet so might want to check first with your stocking plans.
Today one even attacked and ate a monster bristle worm.
I'd love to see what other suggestions people come up with.

I only plan on having a couple fish, certainly compatible with shrimp, probably a wrasse and maybe another tang, otherwise that's it.

 

[starypotter]

I only plan on having a couple fish, certainly compatible with shrimp, probably a wrasse and maybe another tang, otherwise that's it.

I don't know much about wrasses, might find them to be a tasty snack, might not. I got mine from the ocean so they're a bit bigger, when I've seen them at LFS they're a lot smaller than mine are.
Here's one of the mamas chowing down on a bristle worm. I don't think the shrimp hunted it out though. I was moving my rock around and next thing I knew little shrimpy had a snack.

 

[saltyhog]

I think this is a Pedersons also. This one was in a long tentacled anemone but we usually saw them in the type of neme in the second picture. These were in Curacao.

There were 4 of them on this neme

 

[Hulley]

I think this is a Pedersons also. This one was in a long tentacled anemone but we usually saw them in the type of neme in the second picture. These were in Curacao.

There were 4 of them on this neme

Very cool!

 

[DesertReefT4r]

Sexy shrimps are cool. I have heard ghost shrimp can be acclimated to saltwater, may be a brackish shrimp.

 

[starypotter]

Sexy shrimps are cool. I have heard ghost shrimp can be acclimated to saltwater, may be a brackish shrimp.

I found my shrimp in the ocean, LFS breeds them in a saltwater system that's all plumbed together. They're for sure saltwater, probably just a different variation that's the freshwater sort.

 

[norfolkgarden]

Beautiful tank!

 

[Katrina71]

Beautiful tank!

Thank you very much!

 

[Krzydmnd]

Sexy shrimp are fun, you can get 3 or 4 of them (they're small) and they hang out together.

I also love my Randall's pistol shrimp. He and my Yasha goby are best buds.

 

[rkpetersen]

No one has mentioned Harlequin Shrimp yet. Amazingly flamboyant appearance and fascinating behavior. Won't pick on anything but starfish. But drop a starfish in the tank, and watch as the Harlequin tracks it down while doing its little war dance. Get a bonded pair and it's even more amusing, with the little male doing his best to keep up with the female as they drag the food away to their lair.

Then, after time, find hundreds of starfish ossicles, from previous meals, littering the sand floor of their lair; "look at the bones!"

 

[Hulley]

Sexy shrimp are fun, you can get 3 or 4 of them (they're small) and they hang out together.

I also love my Randall's pistol shrimp. He and my Yasha goby are best buds.

Love it! A bonded pair will be in the tank soon!

 

[Hulley]

No one has mentioned Harlequin Shrimp yet. Amazingly flamboyant appearance and fascinating behavior. Won't pick on anything but starfish. But drop a starfish in the tank, and watch as the Harlequin tracks it down while doing its little war dance. Get a bonded pair and it's even more amusing, with the little male doing his best to keep up with the female as they drag the food away to their lair.

Then, after time, find hundreds of starfish ossicles, from previous meals, littering the sand floor of their lair; "look at the bones!"

Very cool, I do have a serpent starfish so I guess that guy is out?

 

[redpine42]

No one has mentioned Harlequin Shrimp yet. Amazingly flamboyant appearance and fascinating behavior. Won't pick on anything but starfish. But drop a starfish in the tank, and watch as the Harlequin tracks it down while doing its little war dance. Get a bonded pair and it's even more amusing, with the little male doing his best to keep up with the female as they drag the food away to their lair.

Then, after time, find hundreds of starfish ossicles, from previous meals, littering the sand floor of their lair; "look at the bones!"

We got one that eats a chocolate chip starfish in a week. I'm having so much disbelief with this shrimp. It tackles and eats an animal about 10 times it's size.

 

[redpine42]

Sexy shrimp are fun, you can get 3 or 4 of them (they're small) and they hang out together.

I also love my Randall's pistol shrimp. He and my Yasha goby are best buds.

Trying to get these. We tried once before and the shrimp and goby disappeared. Wish my diamond would be good with a pistol shrimp. It was the first fish in my tank and is doing so good.