This shrimps as you see on the photo were caught quit often when we roll over rocks or water plants in the streams, it's brown and a bit transparent body colour reminds us on ghost shrimps that can easily be found on the fish store. But, this specimen have darker colouration compare to the ghost shrimp with almost totally transparent body. Next, it has longer, larger pincer compare to the ghost shrimps that has very tiny pincer. Furthermore, this wild caught specimen is more aggressive and territorial than any ghost shrimp we have seen so far.
According to one of our team's member who has keep them in his tank for some time, he found out that they eat a lot more than ghost shrimps and will fight aggressively among one and other, often losing one or two pincer when two of them fights. Their eating habit also makes them a perfect scavengers in a community tanks.
Until now, we still can't determine the real identity of this shrimps, the three factors listed above rules the option of ghost shrimp outs. Some say they were native malayan shrimps and some says they were wild grass shrimp, we will be happy if any of you can identify them.
We have caught quite a lot of them in the native streams of Penang forest, we will like to share them with the rest of the hobbyist to try out this interesting little creature, so we are selling them cheaply for RM0.50 each. Check the "our product" page for more information.
Identity reveal! read about them on our latest post at http://eaquarium.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-wild-caught-shrimp-reveling-identity.html
