I was at my girlfriends parents house. Her parents live on a canal on Long Island. I took a butterfly net as swiped it in the water and got a ton of grass shrimp. They look like ghost shrimp. Should I feed my fish the shrimp? If I do feed them is there anything I should do first? Are grass shrimp and ghost shrimp the same in terms of nutrition?
Wild Grass Shrimp
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I am pretty sure saltwater, it might be brackish. They will survive in freshwater for long enough to get eaten.
I feed mine wild caught shrimp I catch down where I duck hunt look just like ghost shrimp I'd guess there the same but that's all it would be
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Grass shrimp can be found in freshwater and us Minnesotans using them as bait. I believe that grass and ghost shrimp are same shrimp or at last same genus.
Surprised nobody has said this but to answer the OP's question, you should probably quarantine them before putting in with your fish.
I know that. It just seems like a great way to introduce salt to a freshwater tank, or at least salinity shock the hell out of some Shrimp.
FW grass shrimp are common across the US. I have a BW tank but catch shrimp in a nearby FW neighborhood pond. I fill the bucket with tankwater before I go, and I keep them for several days with an air pump/stone and treat with prazipro, a great antiparasitic.
To be fair, the folks on the NANFA board generally don't treat/medicate their new wild-caught specimens, but a quarantine is certainly appropriate. I'm not sure what I would look for in a shrimp, though, to clue me in that it posed a health risk to my fish?
I keep mine in my sump/refugium and feed them well/gut-load them before feeding time. I can't just keep them in the main tank because of my overflow, so its just a few at a time. You could otherwise just dump them in the main tank.
To be fair, the folks on the NANFA board generally don't treat/medicate their new wild-caught specimens, but a quarantine is certainly appropriate. I'm not sure what I would look for in a shrimp, though, to clue me in that it posed a health risk to my fish?
I keep mine in my sump/refugium and feed them well/gut-load them before feeding time. I can't just keep them in the main tank because of my overflow, so its just a few at a time. You could otherwise just dump them in the main tank.