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Pet Forum / Aquaria / Marine Reef / July 2007Re-acclimating ghost shrimp
Ok, I know ghost shrimp can and do live in saltwater. So what woud be a good way to acclimate a large bunch of them to sw. I can get a one time good deal on a bunch of them, but have no desire to keep them in freshwater. I would llike to add them to a huge fuge or a separate tank alonog with some smaller fish that would not eat them, as well as be able to pull out a few to feed as a treat to certain fish. Any suggestions appreciated. I figured I would place em all in a 20 gal tank, with a AC110 hob filter, live sand and live rock rubble and some calurpea.....but to start I owuld have em in FW in that tank, and every other day increase salinity by .001 until I get to a salinity of 1.021, and then just observe for a week or so, and then once again adjust it every other day by .001 until I get it to my range of 1.025/1.026 whichis where I keep all my tanks at......From the time I get to 1.021 I would also starat to introduce fully cured live sand every day or so along with live rock......and once I have sufficient sand inplace would introduce the calurpea. I could use chaeto in th interim until calurpea is all in the tank. I know of a few places that sell em all ready acclimated but I am not willing to paya what they want and would rather take it on myself to do it and have something to play with in the process. ------- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! Freshwater ghost shrimp aren't able to live in saltwater. You'll need to buy saltwater shrimp. More than likely all your shrimp will die if you put them in saltwater. Can't recall the exact name of the saltwater "ghost" shrimp but if you look through Google you can find them. They are two different shrimps. Hope that helps. Susan :) > Ok, I know ghost shrimp can and do live in saltwater. So what woud be > a good way to acclimate a large bunch of them to sw. I can get a one [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > ------- > I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! "Tristan" <tristansaintjohn@yahoo.com> wrote There would be a reward in it for you if yu can get CArol Gulley aka Zebulon there and keep her sorry a.s there until the cowes come home! There would be a bonus if you could also snatch up her butthole buddy Ed Alston. Then USENET would be pretty well troll and trouble free. -- I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! > Freshwater ghost shrimp aren't able to live in saltwater. You'll need to > buy saltwater shrimp. More than likely all your shrimp will die if you put [quoted text clipped - 30 lines] > > ------- > > I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! The ghost shrimp that are sold at the local fish store by me does not keep them in saltwater...well lightly salted water. I don't believe these fair well in marine tanks...there meant to be live food. Live long enough to get chomped. > Ok, I know ghost shrimp can and do live in saltwater. So what woud be > a good way to acclimate a large bunch of them to sw. I can get a one [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > ------- > I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! How come you're not trashing this NG like you are the other aquarium groups Tristan? > Ok, I know ghost shrimp can and do live in saltwater. So what woud be > a good way to acclimate a large bunch of them to sw. I can get a one [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > ------- > I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! It's so much easier to just get salt water ghost shrimp. One method is to put them in 50% salt water, and then put them in full salt in 24 hours. Another method is slowly increasing the salinity. The thing is, though, you are likely to loose quite a few shrimp trying to adapt them, but some are likely to live. I once adapted a crawdad to salt water. That took a lot of work to figure that one out. Wayne Sallee Wayne's Pets Wayne@WaynesPets.com Tristan wrote on 2/6/2007 9:03 PM: > Ok, I know ghost shrimp can and do live in saltwater. So what woud be > a good way to acclimate a large bunch of them to sw. I can get a one [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > ------- > I forgot more about ponds and koi than I'll ever know! Have you tryed the drip acclimation? You would have to take it from your main tank and have it drip once every 10 seconds. It would take about a week or 2 to get them acclimated but it would be easier then raising the the salt lvl every day. |
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