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02-07-2006, 05:30 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
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|  Skunk and Blood Shrimps
I am looking to get a couple of shrimp at the weekend. I would love to get two blood shrimp, however I understand that they are not as active as the skunk shrimp.
Question is, would it be OK to have one blood and one skunk shrimp?
Thanks
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80gal with live rock (35kg/70lbs), 30gal sump, refugium with live rock, chaeto and DSB, Bullet-1 skimmer, Fluidized Reactor, T5 lighting (6 tubes), 4 x Koralia 3's. | 
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02-07-2006, 05:40 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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Yup, you shouldn't have any problems mixing cleaner shrimp. | |
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02-07-2006, 05:42 AM
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| | Coral Banded Shrimp
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Thats super, thanks. | |
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02-07-2006, 09:35 AM
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| | Fire Worm
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On the same topic...I have a fireshrimp that I have had since Nov-Dec. 05, he has grown pretty large. I want to either get another fireshrimp, or cleaner shrimp, but the ones available to me at my LFS are all relatively small compared to the one I already have. Since I only have a 20g, and this might be a redundant question, but do you think there would be an aggression problem with getting either another fireshrimp or cleaner shrimp that would be so much smaller than the existing shrimp, given the small size of my aquarium. _________ 20 Gallon Reef Tank
Berlin System
15lbs Live Rock w/ Live Sand
Coralife Lunar Aqualight
(1x Actinic and 1x 10,000K, 2x 3/4W Blue LEDs)
2 False Percula Clownfish * Blue/Green Reef Chromis * Fire Shrimp * 1 Halloween Hermit Crabs *
2 Scarlet Reef Hermit Crabs * 4 Turbo Snails * 5 Bumblebee Snails
Green Star Polyps * Yellow Polyps * Pink Eyed Zoanthids * Branching Green Hammer Coral *
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02-07-2006, 11:53 AM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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It will tolerate its mate, while others of its own kind will be chased away or harassed.
Paraphrased from a fosters and smith website...
Jim
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90 Gallon glass, 135#'s of rock and 2" sand. 2-250w 20k XM metal halides. 2-95 watt actinic VHO, 4 powerheads, Coralife skimmer. Maroon Gold Striped Clown, Blue Chromis, Kole Tang, Pygmy Angel, Serpent Star, Brittle Star,Gorgonians, Mushrooms, Yellow Polyps, Turbo Snails & Blue Legged Hermits. 20 gal sump with Caulerpa, Mag 7 return pump. | |
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02-07-2006, 09:04 PM
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| | Bristle Worm
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since we are on the shrimp topic......i have a problem keeping shrimp!every time i get a skunk or a fire shrimp they dont make it not even 3 minutes in my tank,yet when i am acclimating them with my water they are fine until they get in my tank! some one help i really want a shrimp! _________ 
45g tank 70 lbs live premium rock40 lbs live sand
2 150w MH 14k hamilton bulb retro 36w actinic bulb
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02-08-2006, 05:40 AM
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| | 3reef Moderator
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Do you have a ground probe in the tank? | |
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02-08-2006, 06:55 AM
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| | Fire Worm
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I only have purchased one, so I might not be of any assistance, but I used the drip acclimation process, and spanned it out over a time period of about 1 1/2 hours. Kept a dim light on in the room, and left the lights off in the tank to reduce stress. Perhaps mine is extremely hardy, as I have read everywhere that fire shrimps also tend to be very shy, mine is out and about all the time, light or dark...even follows me to what ever side of the tank I'm on.
Anywho, how long did you acclimate him, did you also acclimate the water temp? Sounds to me that perhaps going slower would assist in them not going into shock when they reach your tank. Also making sure that you have provided enough water exchange to bring the transport water perimeters as close as possible to the display tank, slowly of course. Maybe they are not exposed to enough of the actual display water to cause a problem until you release them into the display tank.
Again, Ive only acclimated one shrimp, but I also have purchased a bunch of hermits and snails, acclimated the same way and have had no problems.
Are you purchasing them from a LFS or perhaps are they being shipped? I know that of course can definitely contribute a lot of stress to the animal.
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02-11-2006, 02:02 PM
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| | Scooter Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2005 Age: 26
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| ground probe
would the ground probe help??? why would it be needed? 
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30g reef tank, CPR CY192 filter w/ DIY plumb running Rio 17HF return, Coralife 3x 9w UV Sterilizer, 3 24W T5-Helios 10K Daylights/3 24W T5-Helios Blue lights, 2 Logysis blue meteor light strobes (moonlights/24 Blue LEDs).
Tiger tail cuke, asst. snails/hermits, asst. feathers, rainbow acan,zoos,shrooms,bubble,galaxea, asst. shrimp, 2 ocellaris,mandarin,zebrasoma xanthurum,pink-spot watchman,red-striped pistol. | |
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02-11-2006, 03:37 PM
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| | Eyelash Blennie
Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Lakeland, Fl
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In case you are leaking some electricity into the tank.
Our helpful moderator knows that could cause the death of fish and inverts.
Jim | |
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