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    GIGANTIC wood shrimp spotted at Tiong Bahru!

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    was at tiong bahru ben and found GIGANTIC WOOD SHRIMPS.. its EXTREMELY huge man.. REALLY EXTREMELY LARGE... lol.. looks like a lobster already.. and its only $2!!! ( i bought 3 ahaha)
    he also have bee and malayans...
    so.. those interested better hurry!

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    yea i saw it too..real big. i think gona clear soon liao see a lady buying so many...

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    took a pic of it!.. the smallest i can find liao ahhaa

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    Wat is the purpose of Wood Shrimp? ur foreground plants looks like tennellus(Spelling?)

    Mind if I can buy a handful frm you?
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    Yeah the wood shrimps been there for sometime liao. At first when I saw them I thot they were decorations. On closer look, they are shrimps!!! 3, 4 inches long!!! Really huge!!!

    Frankly, wood shrimps good for what? Are they yamato compatible?
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    Wood shrimps feed on microscopic stuff in the water. You'll often find them perched near the filter outlet waving their feather like arms in the current.

    They do not have claws or pincers to catch food, just those feathery arms... so they are pretty safe to keep in a community tank. You could say they are the whale shark of fresh water shrimps.
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    I always worry that the wood shrimp would not get enough food from filtering the water. And I don't have any gravel surface for them to sweep as it is completely covered by HG.
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    Dun worry....

    I have 4 of them in my 2 footer and they love to hang out in front of the power filter outflow... where they probably get all their food washed towards them... But I've also seen them on the sand bed where they start picking up small bits to munch on...
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    On 2/9/2003 1:11:14 AM

    Wood shrimps feed on microscopic stuff in the water. You'll often find them perched near the filter outlet waving their feather like arms in the current.

    They do not have claws or pincers to catch food, just those feathery arms... so they are pretty safe to keep in a community tank. You could say they are the whale shark of fresh water shrimps.
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    Haha, that's a really good comparison...whale shark of fresh water shrimps...and i decided otherwise because i thought they would eat all my kuhlis.
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    pipsqueak i was also worried that they might eat up my other shrimps cause the ones i bought are HUGE.. but he told me the woood shrimp dont have pincers so no worries..

    and also my wood shrimp only likes to come out after lights off.. the moment i on the room lights... it runs back to its usual hiding place.. quite cute[]

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    haha, same here, my tank inhabitants, esp the kuhlis always go crazy at the slightest hint of light.. already turn the hood upside down and turn it on but they still panic..
    hmm, i'll prob get some next time, when i redo my tank..any other places that sell smaller wood shrimps? the ones at tiong bahru is toooo big...
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    Today I went C328 and saw wood shrimps. Got one 5 inches big!!! [:0] [:0] [:0] [:0]
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