I already have a non-native invert tank set up with crystal red shrimp and I was wondering if there are any shrimp (not crays or amphipods/coepods) native to Wisconsin, or the great lakes region. Is there a book to be looking through for this type of information?
I was considering the self cloneing CRAY, but they get much bigger than I care to look at lol.. (big water bugs FREAK ME OUT!)
Thanks guys,
Nate
Native Shrimp to the Great Lakes
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, May 07 2011 09:49 AM
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Posted 07 May 2011 - 10:15 AM
The inland grass shrimp Palamonetes kadakiensis gets up into that area. It is very similar to the Atlantic slope grass or "ghost" shrimp sold as feeders at petstores, P. paludosus. Grass shrimp are best caught by netting through dense vegetation in swamps or lake edges. You also have the opossum shrimp, Mysis diluviana, in the lakes, but it would probably be more difficult to keep due to its intolerance of warm temperatures. The introduced opossum shrimp Hemimysis anomala might be a better aquarium subject.
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Posted 07 May 2011 - 11:27 AM
well looks like i will have to go with some feeder shrimp instead of collecting
due to the grass shrimp being protected in wisconsin (interesting....)
http://www.dnr.state...Code=ICMAL18020
due to the grass shrimp being protected in wisconsin (interesting....)
http://www.dnr.state...Code=ICMAL18020
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