shih-tzu mom

Well, i hope this don't upset anyone lol but i purchased 10-g/s for my puff's and i put them in with the snails and in a cycled q/t annk lol and low and behold these are growing big time-i am feeding shrimp pelletts and veggie wafers and a little alge.-here is the problem now i don't have
the courage to feed them to the puff's.Oh, well i guess i have another species only tank-just thought i would share lol bella

Emory

lol @ you! I completely understand about not being able to go through with it. I used to keep ghost shrimp as pets in my fish tanks.

shih-tzu mom

Emory; The thing is they are so hard at work cleaning and all lol and don't hide and seem to have no fear lol even as i was catching a snail one got in the net and politely got out lol They are interesting as well and i noticed they do eat the smaller snails that i have for my dwarf's But i have to beat them to the smaller snails for breakfast. Amazing creatures-is there anything else i should know about them? i have been doing a lot of reading bella

Emory

Hmmm.... I would just say that although I loved keeping mine they often died after a couple of months. Mystery deaths. Probably just got attacked during molting.

Watch out for horsehair worm. That is the little white string you see neatly wound throughout them. Not much you can do about it. Haven't found any med that rids an invert of a parasite. Used Jungle Parasite Guard but of the 2 shrimp infected one died and one's parasite left. Not a very scientific experiment. I just separated the infected shrimp from the healthy shrimp.

They are cute and silly. My LFS said they sell them as food and had never heard of them being kept as pets. (I was seeking help with diagnosing my mystery deaths.) I think they make fantastic pets.

If I knew they wouldn't die I would have some as pets.... but now that I have puffers I don't think I could keep some for pets and some for food. That would be impossible.