My new harlequin shrimp

[fishoutofwater]

I just got a pair of Harlequin shrimp from an established tank. These are cool. With in minutes of adding them to my 210 reef they found my sand star and started eating so I removed the star and a leg and put the star in the fuge and gave the shrimp the leg. They jumped on it. This was wednesday. As of tonite they are still finishing it up. Here are some pics. enjoy

 

[Rothany]

Realy nice shrimps you got there. Would it be ok to feed them seastars from puget sound?

 

[fishoutofwater]

i dont see why not. good question. I will have to check into that.

 

[aquariumdebacle]

feed just a single leg from a very small coldwater star, they will not live in higher temperature water for very long. The sand star is unlikely to survive in the fuge for long either. They need far more surface area to do well.

 

[estoniangirl]

those are so cute!!!! i want a pair now!!!!!

 

[fishoutofwater]

I have sand in the fuge too but I wasnt expecting him to last long but long enough to keep feeding the shrimp. LOL. I will have to chcek the tide pools for stars to feed the shrimp.

feed just a single leg from a very small coldwater star, they will not live in higher temperature water for very long. The sand star is unlikely to survive in the fuge for long either. They need far more surface area to do well.

 

[rjbourge360]

Shrimp

Very Cool, I wouldn't mind have some in my reef tank