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Has anyone seen these? I bought two from a local store and they called them Whisker shrimp but I have never seen or heard of them.

 

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I will try to get one. Seems he comes out mostly at night and swims across the tank. Almost clear with an irridescent appearance and maybe 1.25" long. I'll see what I can get tonight

 

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Wow...I hadnt had any missing fish or any other problems so far but looks like I better keep a close watch.

 

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Okay got some pics of my shrimp. The pics don't seem to show the blue iridescence to him

Here he is swimming near the top of the tank

Here he is at the bottom

And just swimming along

 

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Can't find much on Macrobrachium lanchesteri but from the pics I find, it does resemble the one I have. And so far so good as far as being peaceful. I have about 15 cories and I watch him climb over them with no interest. I'll keep an eye on him though. I really like him because he is so active all over the tank

 

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I still haven't had any issues with this guy. But he is a wild son of a gun.

Everytime I put my hands in the tank...THERE HE IS. Looking at me. I could be on the left of the tank and he is right there so I go to the right and holy hell, he's over there looking at me.

Once I just wanted to see what he would do...well he climbed my finger and up my arm to where i have some hair and it looked like he was just playing in it...but then I felt it. He was either pinching, pulling or biting. Didn't hurt as much as startle me. But he is determined to be wherever my hand is everytime I put it in the tank. He'll even sneak around the back of plants to where I don't see him until he is right on me.