GUY OR GAL?

Question
Dear Chris,
I have 2 ghost shrimps and do they eat sinking wafers?
I feed them one sinking wafer for the both shrimps to eat one wafer,right?
One wafer is three fourths of a pennie.
Oh yeah!Who can I tell from a girl ghost shrimp from a boy ghost shrimp?
Sincerely,
Samuel

Answer
Hi Samuel;

Ghost shrimps are scavengers so they will eat just about anything really. Sinking wafers are just fine.

There are no obvious outward signs of boys vs. girls in ghost shrimp. When they become mature, the females (girls) are considerably larger than the males. The females will hold their eggs under their tails so you know you have a female when they do that. Here is a good web page with info about ghost glass shrimp by fellow volunteer expert 'Robyn' in the pond category;

http://www.fishpondinfo.com/shrimp2.htm#ghost

Good luck and have fun!

At Your Service;
Chris Robbins