Shrimp Id Please!

[nessar]

Well I've just popped him in a tub, its only a 3.5 litre food tub but I suppose it will do for a few days. Given him a moss ball and a small piece of wood. He's a gutsey thing, exploring already.

I've filled it up only about a cm from the top and it doesnt have a lid, they arent the types to climb out the water are they?

He's almost pretty close up, he's banded/striped in different shades of brownish beigy yellow, with a blue stomach.

 

[Baccus]

As long as the water stays free of ammonia and has plenty of oxygen the shrimp should stay in there. I have kept them in a 20L tank with no lid, well lit by a light, filter and timber, plants and rocks and even though they where wild caught they where happy to stay in the tank. Just to make sure it does stay put you could put a hair net over the container.

 

[maisy12345]

It`s a ghost shrimp ,Ihave a few of them too.

 

[nessar]

It`s a ghost shrimp ,Ihave a few of them too.

There are lots of different types of ghost shrimp, its a generic name that covers quite a few species, I have 3, the other two types in that tank are very peaceful

 

[nessar]

Right, he has to go

I had him in the tub for a couple of days, but then found him on his back, scooting around with difficulty. I panicked, thought the tub had been contaminated with something, and put him in the main tank. I now realise that he was probably just moulting, but I idiotically didnt think of that then for some reason. Saw him the next day, fine, but his front feet with the pincers are significantly shorter, its really odd... the pincers are still there so its not like he has broken them off, I can only guess that it has something to do with his moulting.

Then today, one of my goldies has now got fin rot - the ripped fins have black-tinted edges, and the other had something attached to its eye, which seemed a bit swollen. I thought great, the fin nipping has weakened their immune systems and now one has got some sort of fungus.

But just now, I saw the shrimp attacking its eyes! Properly attacking it, I waited for it to stop then when it didnt had to bang on the glass to get it off. It did the same again a few minutes later, so its back in the tub. These are celestial goldies, so their eyes are quite vulnerable, in fact the reason I got them was because I saw them in the pet shop with their eyes being attacked by some sort of loach, to the point where most were hardly alive. They are only about the length of the shrimp, so not big enough to defend themselves properly. Its poor eye is swollen and bloodshot, and visibly damaged at the side too.

So the shrimp has to go. I have no room for any more tanks, all I have are the goldfish and the betta.