Some where along the road of getting corals & LR from fellow reefers I introduced some mysis in my tanks. Now I've been told and read " Mysid shrimp are very difficult to culture because they are highly cannibalistic " which would make me think that I'd see a few here and there in the tanks, since besides being eaten by fish they are eating eachother.
However that's not the case, my tanks are simply full of them...at one point you couldn't look at my aquapod w/o seeing them swarming (for lack of a better term) everywhere, there seem to be a bit less now but I've also cut back on my feedings and introduced another fish.
The sump on my recently setup 70g is absolutely FULL of them, the whole thing is swarming... decent number of pods in there as well. Less visible inside the tank, however I have a shrimp hungry 6 line who is endlessly patrolling but I can see them and pods inside the rocks.
Further showing mine don't seem to eat eachother (at least not alot) when I found the hitch hiker crab in my tank and didn't have the heart to flush him I set up a 3g for him with some small pieces of LR from my tank. This 3g went under my 30g cube and honestly I forgot about it more then I remembered it... only tossing in a shrimp pellet every few days for the crab to eat. Well in no time at all it was also full of mysis shrimp running all over the place. They go nuts for flake food as well.
Also noted that the adults have a reddish color to them... now this is a very very long shot and I'm sure not possible, but figured I'd ask because, well you never know
I from time to time give my fish some of the live freshwater cherry shrimp I used to breed as a treat, amazingly enough the shrimp (if not eaten right away) last at least an hour in the saltwater (this going straight from freshwater to the reef, not acclimating food items) is there any chance at all that some sort of cross breeding happened or a female cherry released babies who for some reason survived in the saltwater? Just wondering why the mysis have the reddish color and don't seem as cannibalistic as I've read they should be.
Am I just lucky to have free food breeding so well in my systems or maybe have a different strain?
-Candi
However that's not the case, my tanks are simply full of them...at one point you couldn't look at my aquapod w/o seeing them swarming (for lack of a better term) everywhere, there seem to be a bit less now but I've also cut back on my feedings and introduced another fish.
The sump on my recently setup 70g is absolutely FULL of them, the whole thing is swarming... decent number of pods in there as well. Less visible inside the tank, however I have a shrimp hungry 6 line who is endlessly patrolling but I can see them and pods inside the rocks.
Further showing mine don't seem to eat eachother (at least not alot) when I found the hitch hiker crab in my tank and didn't have the heart to flush him I set up a 3g for him with some small pieces of LR from my tank. This 3g went under my 30g cube and honestly I forgot about it more then I remembered it... only tossing in a shrimp pellet every few days for the crab to eat. Well in no time at all it was also full of mysis shrimp running all over the place. They go nuts for flake food as well.
Also noted that the adults have a reddish color to them... now this is a very very long shot and I'm sure not possible, but figured I'd ask because, well you never know
I from time to time give my fish some of the live freshwater cherry shrimp I used to breed as a treat, amazingly enough the shrimp (if not eaten right away) last at least an hour in the saltwater (this going straight from freshwater to the reef, not acclimating food items) is there any chance at all that some sort of cross breeding happened or a female cherry released babies who for some reason survived in the saltwater? Just wondering why the mysis have the reddish color and don't seem as cannibalistic as I've read they should be.Am I just lucky to have free food breeding so well in my systems or maybe have a different strain?
-Candi
