Harlequin Shrimp!!

[hobbes]

How many of u here have Harlequin Shrimps?

How do u find it?

Someone post some pictures yeah..

I got 2 of them in my 2feet tank.. really really FAT.

Always eat all day(or at least hold on to the starfish leg)

I think they r reallly cute... isit true that they dont like strong lightings...

[Melvyn Tan]

Here's mine - everytime it wanna eat, it killed the whole damn starfish and eat only a small portion of the star....latter i put it in my main tank with 2 sandstars and it disppeared. My clown trigger was smiling at me the other time !!!

[rockfish]

i used to have 2. paired up after fight for a week after i put them together.

like u said, eats all the time. both grown up to 1.5 inch then.

then while one of them is molting, 1 anemone died and polluted the water.

1 month later, same incident happen... lost my other...

they were so cute...

[Regal]

They eat only star fish ?? What kind of star fish they were eat ?? How to difference between Female & Male Herlequin Shrimp ? look like the same ???

[hobbes]

I cant stand them, they EAT ALL DAY.....

[FuEl]

I've had mine actually release larvae into the water at night. But feed them any sea stars but sandshifting stars. I suspect the diet of sandshifting stars led to the demise of my beautiful adult pair.

[ashidiq]

any pro can teach how to better care for them i thinking of getting one but i wan to know them inside out first

[lightningstrike]

most of the time they feed on linkia stars.

[neokn]

Do you guyz enjoy seeing the starfish being tear apart and slowly die?

Is there a doctor in this fourm, these guyz are SICK!!!!

[rockfish]

I've had mine actually release larvae into the water at night. But feed them any sea stars but sandshifting stars. I suspect the diet of sandshifting stars led to the demise of my beautiful adult pair.

NO WONDER.... maybe they die becoz of that ... they die after i start feeding them sand shifter star ..

[rockfish]

Do you guyz enjoy seeing the starfish being tear apart and slowly die?

Is there a doctor in this fourm, these guyz are SICK!!!!

hey bro,

cool it lah ... there are ppls who keep lionfish and other predator fishes ... also the same mah ..

some of us just love the beauty of these creatures and not their eatting habits ..

and i believe that ppls have the rite to choose wat they prefer...

why some ppls choose to be vegetarian, while some got to have meat everyday??

same theory ..

cheers bro

[neokn]

I guess it never struck me that I'll need feed my LS with another LS.

Hope I don't start a flame with this. Cheers.

[RockLobster]

They eat only star fish ?? What kind of star fish they were eat ?? How to difference between Female & Male Herlequin Shrimp ? look like the same ???

I read on the net that the females have blue feet . Do a 'google' search on harlequin shrimps and find out more

I'm also thinking of starting a harlequin tank.. problem is they cost about 4-5 cleaner shrimps each.

Any bros/sistas have lobangs on where to find good specimens at reasonable price?

Cheers

[jc85]

I still have a pair in my tank. Almost a yr since. Been feeding starfish for them.

This is how one of it look like when just bought.

[dleecool]

Hi,

Just a few questions here, do we need to feed them everyday? Feeding them with dead startfish or live startfish? where to get dead starfish if we feed them dead startfish?

I'm very new to harlequin shrimp, but they really attracted my eyes!

[jc85]

U need to feed live starfish. Some harlequin may just kill them within an hr. This is a problem cause ur tank may or may not have NH4 spike. In the wild, harlequin will not kill the starfish. It depends on ur luck.

When they are hungry, they will come out to search for food and this is the time u know they need to feed. Mine pair take 2 -3 week to finish one starfish.

[ryz]

when they start feeding on the starfish the starfish dun die? Woah... imagine getting eaten alive and u can feel ur flesh getting torn away.. Is it possible to freeze and chopped up the starfish into smaller parts and feed these small portions to the harlequin shrimps when they're hungry?

[mUAr_cHEe]

when they start feeding on the starfish the starfish dun die? Woah... imagine getting eaten alive and u can feel ur flesh getting torn away.. Is it possible to freeze and chopped up the starfish into smaller parts and feed these small portions to the harlequin shrimps when they're hungry?

again this one is see lucky not lucky....

some HS might be able to take the "frozen" food....

[jc85]

when they start feeding on the starfish the starfish dun die? Woah... imagine getting eaten alive and u can feel ur flesh getting torn away.. Is it possible to freeze and chopped up the starfish into smaller parts and feed these small portions to the harlequin shrimps when they're hungry?

U can try but will u be risking polluting ur tank in this case?

[ryz]

but once the HS start feasting on the legs of the starfish won't they die as well and pollute the water even more? Or can the starfish still stay alive when the HS eat it?

[jc85]

but once the HS start feasting on the legs of the starfish won't they die as well and pollute the water even more? Or can the starfish still stay alive when the HS eat it?

The starfish can stay alive as long as the HS does not attack its center part. Read somewhere that, HS are known to even feed the starfish by bring them food. So far, I did not expereince that.

[ryz]

haha! so interesting... tempt mne to set up a small 1feet Harlequin shrimp tank liao...

[neokn]

Reborn still have 1 pc left if you want. 2 L size spotted @ AquaMarine last Sat.

[pisces]

Seen quite a few at Iwarna last Fri.

[Travy]

Tempting.... But i love star fishes too...

Its like... feeding my girlfriend(s) to my wife... HAHA!