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Re: Shrimps
Red and white striped shrimp about 1/4-1/2 inch in size? we call these Bee
shrimp and they are native to Japan. And yes, they make great fish food. The
killies pick off the babies and the adults scurry about keeping debris to a
minimum.
Ed
Tokyo Japan
>From: "Tim Addis" <timaddis at killifish_force9.co.uk>
>Reply-To: killietalk at aka_org
>To: <killietalk at aka_org>
>Subject: Re: Shrimps
>Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 23:41:01 +0100
>
> > Does anyone know of any good sources for such interesting shrimp? I've
>only
> > been able to get the ghost shrimps which aren't the most exciting and
>don't
> > seem to survive well for me. (The soft acid water I think)
>
>Doug, in the UK we have many shrimp imports from Cameroon. Some small, some
>big & nasty.
>The small one is greatly relished by killies which we call the humbug
>shrimp
>as they are vertically striped brown & white. They live on the bottom & in
>floating plants & do well on Daphnia which has died & decayed on the tank
>floor & dried food.
>This is probably the next live food source which we should seriously look
>at. In my opinion the new direction for live food. After all, you can't
>beat
>mother nature.
>
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