SRC Member TanGo Posted November 24, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 24, 2002 What other food does a Harlequin shrimp eats besides starfishes and Sea Urchins? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member TTBoy Posted November 24, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 24, 2002 Wanted to get harlequin but too bad it only eats starfishes. Cant afford to keep buying starfishes to feed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member TanGo Posted November 24, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 24, 2002 How often do I have to feed it with starfish? weekly? or two daily? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Phang Posted November 25, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 25, 2002 One starfish per week or every 2 weeks was the routine that I kept with my previous pair of Harlequin Shrimps..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 25, 2002 Share Posted November 25, 2002 thanx bluebeard, i think i know how to go there oreadi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 went to Kwang's liao, super ooloo place... but i like the atmosphere. shielded from the business on the main road... bot two porcelain crabs at 2.50 each... their harlequin shrimp is so tiny, really cute looking. at $15 each... thinking of getting 3 more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Bluebeard Posted November 26, 2002 Author SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 wah he got porcelain crabs again! i got 2 from Kwang's last time but they fight and they die! will get more of them after i transfer my fishes to bigger tank! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Phang Posted November 26, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 their harlequin shrimp is so tiny, really cute looking. at $15 each... thinking of getting 3 more. Hi Coelacanth, I think you were a little late... cos there are 2 large ones when the srock first arrive.... BTW, Kwang brings Harlequins in regularly... you might be interested in waiting if big specimens are your choice.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member mv3i Posted November 26, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 anyone can tell me where kwang is ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Phang Posted November 26, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 Check this thread.... think Bluebeard provided a map there.... Nearest MRT would be Paya Lebar but you have to walk.....Alot!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Hi Coelacanth, I think you were a little late... cos there are 2 large ones when the srock first arrive.... BTW, Kwang brings Harlequins in regularly... you might be interested in waiting if big specimens are your choice.... Hi Phang, i din miss the big ones, just that i got two of it myself... abt 2 inches each after several molts. Reborn selling one large one at $50, some more short of one "petal". check out my Dancing/clown/painted shrimp. (that's their common names) http://arofanatics.com/members/coelacanth/...arlequinshrimp/ hi bluebeard, my porcelains anemone crabs are doing very well together leh, just that it'll chase my anemone fish away. cute animals, always "fanning" itself, maybe like that i dun need a chiller cos it'll cool itself? kekekeke... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 26, 2002 Share Posted November 26, 2002 Check this thread.... think Bluebeard provided a map there....Nearest MRT would be Paya Lebar but you have to walk.....Alot!!!! actually not alot if u know how. quite confusing at first. i enter from the malay village down there... walk... i think u better print out the map. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Bluebeard Posted November 26, 2002 Author SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 Hi Phang, i din miss the big ones, just that i got two of it myself... abt 2 inches each after several molts. Reborn selling one large one at $50, some more short of one "petal". check out my Dancing/clown/painted shrimp. (that's their common names) http://arofanatics.com/members/coelacanth/...arlequinshrimp/ hi bluebeard, my porcelains anemone crabs are doing very well together leh, just that it'll chase my anemone fish away. cute animals, always "fanning" itself, maybe like that i dun need a chiller cos it'll cool itself? kekekeke... hahaahhaa.. ya lor.. their fanning very cute... always wonder what are they fanning since i cannot see them. i manage to feed those i kept last time with some kind of hermit crab pellet. maybe mine didn't fight each other, maybe they fight with the shrimps or the other kind of crabs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Bluebeard Posted November 26, 2002 Author SRC Member Share Posted November 26, 2002 actually not alot if u know how. quite confusing at first. i enter from the malay village down there... walk... i think u better print out the map. actually walking from the malay village you won't get lost but it's a longer way. the shortest way is, Paya Lebar MRT Katong Shopping Centre Lion City Hotel Haig Road Block 10 until you get to block 2 and down the small road and you are almost there! i know the place inside out because i live them almost 20 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRC Member Phang Posted November 27, 2002 SRC Member Share Posted November 27, 2002 Hi Coelacanth, How many Harlequins do you have???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B|uEc@rpEt Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 The fanning is actually to catch its food particles. Quote I'm gonna break the cycle I'm gonna shake up the system I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Hi Coelacanth, How many Harlequins do you have???? hi phang, i got 3 HS altogether, two female. ya, the fanning of the PAC (Procelain Anemone Crab) is actually to catch food, i saw mine netting a big brine shrimp... so they are definitely not full time plankton feeder... only part time. haha... PAC are helpful in clearing the slime of the anemone also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B|uEc@rpEt Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 Hi coelacanth! Nice to koe another Harlequin Shrimp fan! Juz out of interest...how do u differentiate the females? I usually realize that the ones wif the blue legs (beneath its belly) is the female (larger than its partner too) n often carry eggs... Is there another way of telling it? Quote I'm gonna break the cycle I'm gonna shake up the system I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 27, 2002 Share Posted November 27, 2002 hi B|uEc@rpEt, unfortunately, thats the way i use to ###### them at the LFS too, the one with purplish pleopods are often the female... true indeed, eggs are seen after i introduced the "male" as supposed, as both of them stick together and hunt as a team... and chasing away the other female. and also, though the female is the larger of the two, but in the LFS, u cannot tell the difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B|uEc@rpEt Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 Tks coel Where do u house ya HS? In an invertebrate tank? I love invertebrates too...and I house most of mine in my seahorse tank. Quote I'm gonna break the cycle I'm gonna shake up the system I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 28, 2002 Share Posted November 28, 2002 I kept mine in a crustacean tank, with a couple of fish and seahorse. I do keep some inverts like Jellyfish, but they are not doing very well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B|uEc@rpEt Posted November 29, 2002 Share Posted November 29, 2002 Wow Jelly fish? Have not seen them in quite a while...how long have u kept them? And how do u koe its not doing well? I've heard that its real diff to keep them...am i rite to say that they r the non-stingy type n hence wun harm ya horses? Quote I'm gonna break the cycle I'm gonna shake up the system I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coelacanth Posted November 29, 2002 Share Posted November 29, 2002 hi B|uEc@rpEt, i kept my Jellys for just 3 weeks. they are small so not possible to sting the horses, but i dun guarantee the baby horse. really tire me out to keep them, unless u have available sources for plankton, dun keep them. i'm left with the last one. u can c that they are less active than previously bot, sometimes motionless. like dead. very discouraging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achilles Tang Posted November 29, 2002 Share Posted November 29, 2002 I posted a thread about jellyfish some time back. I strongly discourage the keeping of jellyfish as we are not able to provide: 1. The kind of specialised jellyfish tank that doesn't damage them ie. free of corners, and has a circulation system that doesn't suck them into the filter. 2. The food that they require ie. plankton and zooplankton. Drop the demand and they'll stop supplying... let them be in the sea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B|uEc@rpEt Posted November 30, 2002 Share Posted November 30, 2002 Hi C... Sorrie to hear about ya jelly fish thingy...they r quite hard to be kept alive in our tanks. But I can understand how come u decided to give it a go I have a fren wif a successful species tank of jelly fishes And oh...were u the one who was looking for decorator crabs? Or was it someone else? Quote I'm gonna break the cycle I'm gonna shake up the system I'm gonna destroy my ego I'm gonna close my body now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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