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fungia

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are there live mysis shrimp that will live in reef tanks? is there any point to trying to grow them or will the fish eat them too fast?
 
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Frozen are available mostly anywhere. Most fish will devour them much faster than we are able to raise them in our tanks.
 

GSchiemer

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You can grow them in a refugium aquarium quite easily. They also manage to survive under crevices and in caves in the main tank. I have them all over my aquariums and make little effort to directly feed them.

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rayjay

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Mysis shrimp are freshwater shrimp, mysids are salt water shrimp.
Most tanks already have these shrimp in them as they seem to come with live rock and coral.
If you have a few fish that feed on small crustaceans they may have wiped out the mysids, or at least have them limited to very few numbers such that you don't see them.
Best time to look for them is after lights out and the room darkened for a while, shine a flashlight at the bottom of the live rock (preferably with a red lens) and you should see them darting around the bottom between the rocks.
 

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