Mobile Bay Reef Keepers

I was wonder what you guys (gals) have done to get mysis shrimp started in your sumps? Does everyone have them? Do I need to buy them, or do they just come naturally with clumps of macro algae? Anyone have a good pick of what a "live" one looks like?

If I am not mistaken mystic shrimp are freshwater shrimp and will not live in your sump....not sure

I also am curious to get a solid answer. I , through researching this a while back for my african cichlids found alot of conflicting information. I will look up the old links and post them here later. From memory though I believe that Mysis and Mysids shrimp are different species and there are many variations requiring different salinity values. I remember a 50% salinity was recomended for the type I was going to culture , but the factor that kept me from trying was there were many failures due to the mysids low tolerence for any water impurities (ie nitrites and nitrates).

Also I think they produce small amounts of offspring per female making it almost impossible or worthless to due on a small scale. Things may have changed though since then...that has been a long while back.

http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepage ... ysids1.htm


http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/ ... reeder.htm

http://reo.nii.ac.jp/journal/HtmlIndica ... tract.html

http://ethesis.helsinki.fi/julkaisut/ma ... odsele.pdf

They like low flow, so if there is a spot in your sump where there is very low flow they will eventually show up on there own.

snoopdog wrote:They like low flow, so if there is a spot in your sump where there is very low flow they will eventually show up on there own.

are you talking about mysis shrimp or copepods?

Mysis shrimp

Thank you for your feedback. I want to correct myself...I meant refug not sump. I will read all the links you've supplied. Thanks again.