What Shrimp is this?

[dcsim]

Hi all,

Please help to identify this shrimp?
http://www.arofanatics.com/members/dcsim/shrimps/

Thanks

[hirowen]

Hi,

Your pictures are blur, from the last picture, it looks like ghost shrimp. Don't know whether it is correct anot.

[hwchoy]

did you catch yourself? looks like one of those Macrobrachium spp. with the big pincers.

[dcsim]

hi hwchoy,

Yes it has big pincers and I caught it myself...
Do you have more information about Macrobrachium spp?

Thanks

[hwchoy]

no I do not have more info, unfortunately. and a lot of info on shrimps are in german. anybody here read german fluently?

btw where did you catch them?

[Merkava]

[quote:bc40172db4="dcsim"]Hi all,

Please help to identify this shrimp?
http://www.arofanatics.com/members/dcsim/shrimps/

Thanks[/quote:bc40172db4]

Halo,

Looking like ghost shrimp used as feeders.... i used to (few years back) catch big ones at Bishan Park.... 6 -7cm with big claws.... fierce manz....

[Robert]

H W Choy,
I can read German fluently and I also speak it without an accent . But I guess most Germans can do this, so this is nothing special :P .
Back to topic, most of the Macrobrachium species are carnivor or scavenors, so be careful with them. A 3 inch big shrimp could easily attack a guppy. Almost all species of them are not peaceful and I won't use them for a Community tank. On the website http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.html you can read things like this about most of the spezies of this particular genus:

aggressive against each other,
don't keep them with bigger fishes only with very small or very fast ones,
even a cardinal tetra was attacked,
eats small fish and snails,
can be cannibal to their own offspring,
eats parts of plants even anubias,
eats smaller crayfish
etc.

So I won't keep any of the bigger ones in my tanks. The risk is to high.

regards

Robert