Shrimp

Sakura in Japanese means cherry blossom. So bearing a similar color to cherry blossom, the name for this shrimp was forged. They are one of the popular dwarf shrimps, which fall under the category of cherry shrimp.

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The primary cause of this is the importing of shrimps from areas where they already have this problem. As a result, many shrimp keepers put their shrimps in a quarantine tank before mixing them with other shrimps to prevent such possibilities. This helps in controlling an outbreak of foreign diseases in their tank.

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Goldfish, angelfish, bettas, cichlids, frogs, turtles, crayfish, gourami, danios are some of the worst tank mates that can eat ghost shrimps. On the other hand, your ghost shrimps can peacefully cohabitate with friendly tankmates like Ruby tetra, small Guppies, neon Tetra, otocinclus, Pygmy Cory catfish, panda garra, Hillstream butterfly Loach, etc.

Factors like inability to acclimate, poor water parameters, overstocking, overfeeding, white rings, no plants in the aquarium, and wrong tank mates are some of the reasons why your ghost shrimps keep dying. Thus, you need to address each of these problems one at a time carefully, and you won’t have a dead colony of shrimps.

Grass shrimps are hands down one of the best assets you could add to your tank. These tiny, almost spooky creatures won’t just give your tank a mystical vibe but also make it clean and squeaky. They will readily take on the role of tank’s janitor and eat away algae and organic waste.

A small shrimp with an unusually big claw that can move at a 97 km/hr speed – meet tiger pistol shrimp – an endless source of fascination and perhaps a muse for many in the marine aquarium hobby.

The name snowball shrimp comes from the extremely white eggs they lay, which look almost identical to tiny snowballs. Snowball shrimps are the selectively bred white variant of the Neocaridina cf. zhangjiajiensis. Although their original, wild root traces back to Taiwan, they were bred in pearly white hues for the first in 2006 by German aquarist Ulf Gottschalk.

Yes, cherry shrimps can and will hair algae. However, it’s impractical to expect cherry shrimps to completely annihilate hair algae. In most cases, they will only eat it if they don’t have any other option.

Amano shrimps in captivity live only for around 2 to 3 years. Natives of Japanese swamps, amanos are tremendously challenging to breed. As a result, very few hobbyists can raise the larvae to adulthood. However, with the right living conditions, some claim that their amanos have lived for over 5 years.

Horsehair worm is the most commonly found parasite in ghost shrimps. These parasites are white, thin and range anywhere between 1 mm to 1.5mm in width. Unfortunately, there’s no known cure for this. In most cases, the infested shrimp will turn opaque white and die within a couple of days.