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Palaemonetes paludosus, commonly known as ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, and eastern grass shrimp, [2] [3] is a species of freshwater shrimp from the southeastern United States. [4] They can be considered a keystone species based on the services they provide to their habitat. [2] They are also popular in the domestic aquarium business. [5]
Glass shrimp are commonly used as bait by freshwater anglers, being taken with dip nets or common box net bait traps. [4] Shrimp are also used as live food for aquarium fish of sufficient size and are themselves kept as aquarium specimens either by themselves or with smaller fish.
Freshwater pipefish: Doryichthys martensii: 15 cm (5.9 in) African freshwater pipefish: Enneacampus ansorgii: 14 cm (5.5 in) Zebra blenny: Omobranchus zebra: 6 cm (2.4 in) Fire eel: Mastacembelus erythrotaenia: 100 cm (39 in) Tire track eel: Mastacembelus armatus: 90 cm (35 in) Peacock eel: Macrognathus siamensis: 30 cm (12 in)
This is a list of invertebrates, animals without a backbone, that are commonly kept in freshwater aquaria by hobby aquarists. Numerous shrimp species of various kinds, crayfish , a number of freshwater snail species, and at least one freshwater clam species are found in freshwater aquaria or '0' salinity water body.
P. paludosus in a freshwater aquarium. Feeder shrimp, ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, grass shrimp, river shrimp or feeder prawns are generic names applied to inexpensive small, typically with a length of 1 to 3 cm (0.39 to 1.18 in), semi-transparent crustaceans commonly sold and fed as live prey to larger more aggressive fishes kept in aquariums.
Triops longicaudatus (commonly called American tadpole shrimp or longtail tadpole shrimp) is a freshwater crustacean of the order Notostraca, resembling a miniature horseshoe crab. It is characterized by an elongated, segmented body, a flattened shield-like brownish carapace covering two thirds of the thorax, and two long filaments on the abdomen.
Palaemon varians, known as the Atlantic ditch shrimp [2] and variable shrimp, [3] is a caridean shrimp [1] [3] found from the Baltic Sea and the British Isles to the western Mediterranean Sea. [4] It reaches up to 5 cm (2.0 in) in length and is never found in fully marine conditions, instead living in brackish water.
Freshwater shrimp are any shrimp which live in fresh water. This includes: Any Caridea (shrimp) which live in fresh water, especially the family Atyidae; Species in the genus Macrobrachium; Macrobrachium ohione, the Ohio River shrimp; Macrobrachium carcinus, sometimes called the American giant freshwater prawn