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12-14-2006, 03:15 PM
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#1 | | Betta
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Beaumont, Ca
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can a ghost shrimp go into a saltwater tank and survive?
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12-14-2006, 05:19 PM
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#2 | | Tetra
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: houston, tx
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|  only one way to find out, plop em in and see what happens...
I don't know about ghost shrimp bit I think they are FW and mostly used as feeders....but like I said, I dunno.....
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12-14-2006, 05:38 PM
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#3 | | Banned
Join Date: Sep 2006
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| For quite a while, yes, but not really long term. Fed them to my puffer and lionfish when I had them and they could usually last a day or two. Then again, they didnt normally die because of water conditions, but I did pick one or two out of the water as they were floating and not eaten. | |
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12-14-2006, 06:09 PM
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#4 | | Betta
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Beaumont, Ca
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| i only have one i found it when i bought my discus and realized that it was in there and is still alive so for and ive had those discus for about three months so its a ghost shrimp that is doing realy good but its how you learn ill try it is i see any advanced signs of stress ill put him back in with the discus
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12-14-2006, 09:22 PM
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#5 | | Banned
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| I would NOT keep a ghost shrimp in a saltwater tank long term. That is not their natural habitat, per say, but most shrimp, I believe are born in salty water.
There are TWO types of shrimp that look very similar to each other...the GHOST shrimp (Paleomonetes sp.), which is a freshwater "feeder" shrimp most often (they are also good cleaners if you overfeed a lot, for example in a fry tank where it is hard to feed correctly with such small flakes)...and there are WHITE shrimp (Penaeus vannamei), which are saltwater shrimp, also used as feeders most often.
Let me preface all of that by saying I am not sure what the differences are, and am NOT the expert. I am only stating this info because on every online aquatic store I have looked into these shrimp on, there are two seperate profiles for each type, freshwater feeders and saltwater feeders, and they both are nearly identicle other than the scientific names, which are also pretty close (at least to me). If you want to know more, then search for their scientific name, rather than common name, so that you get more information on each one in particular.
I would put your ghost shrimp back in the freshwater tank if I were you. I did not mean to imply that they can be interchangeable and even if they were, you are going to have a hard time because you probrably did not acclimate it between the tanks. | |
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12-18-2006, 04:40 PM
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#6 | | Rainbow
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Clemons NY, specificly in the midlle of nowhere
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| I dont have a saltwater tank but what if you put him in a freshwater tank just added very little salt to it for a long period of time, then couldnt you put him in saltwater. wouldnt he get used to it.?
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12-18-2006, 08:06 PM
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#7 | | Super MOD 3000 Posts
Join Date: Jul 2006
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| What kind of "salt" or "salts" are your guys talking about. NaCl, MgSo4, KSO4,
CaSO4 etc. etc., combos of each, one only. Just so we are all on the same song sheet for discussion 
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12-19-2006, 04:00 PM
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#8 | | Betta
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Beaumont, Ca
Posts: 80
| im not entirly sure i get my salt water from a friend that mixes his own salt with RO water
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12-19-2006, 08:18 PM
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#9 | | Super MOD 3000 Posts
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im not entirly sure i get my salt water from a friend that mixes his own salt with RO water
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This is where I came in...bye!
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12-28-2006, 08:51 PM
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#10 | | Guppy
Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Holton, Michigan
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| I would think that it would get used to the salt. I have surfed on the internet and it said that they are good for feeding saltwater fish that are hard to feed. | |
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