Live Ghost Shrimp — 25 Count
A starter cleanup crew for tanks from 5 to 20 gallons. Enough shrimp to establish visible activity without overloading a small bioload.
$24
$0.96 each
- Live arrival guarantee on every order
- Ships Monday–Wednesday, continental US
- Overage included to cover transit attrition
- Nano tanks
- First-time shrimp keepers
- Classroom aquariums
About these shrimp
Live American glass shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus), hand-counted and packed the morning they ship. Sized for a nano or desk aquarium where you want a working cleanup crew you can actually watch.
Every batch spends a minimum of seven days in our conditioning system before it is eligible to ship. During that window shrimp are held at a low stocking density, fed a rotating diet of biofilm, blanched vegetables and a calcium-supplemented prepared food, and watched daily for molting problems, cloudy muscle or lethargy. Anything that does not look right is pulled.
Counts are hand-verified twice — once at pull and once at bagging — and we include a small overage on every order to cover normal transit attrition. Shrimp travel in oxygen-charged bags with a fragment of sponge or moss for cover, inside a foam-insulated box with a seasonal heat or cool pack.
Acclimation instructions
Follow these in order. Most arrival losses that are not caused by shipping are caused by skipping step four.
- 1
Open the box immediately
Unpack on arrival, even if the tank is not ready. Float nothing yet — first look at the bag and note any casualties for a guarantee claim within 4 hours of delivery.
- 2
Dim the lights
Turn off the aquarium light and work in low light for the next hour. Bright light on top of transit stress is the most common avoidable loss.
- 3
Temperature match
Float the sealed bag in the tank for 20–30 minutes so the shipping water reaches tank temperature. Do not open the bag during this step.
- 4
Drip acclimate for 60–90 minutes
Pour the shrimp and their water into a clean container and drip tank water in at 2–3 drops per second until the volume has roughly tripled.
- 5
Net them across
Move the shrimp with a soft net or cup. Never pour shipping water into your aquarium — it carries ammonia from the trip.
- 6
Leave them alone
Add a piece of blanched vegetable or a bit of biofilm-rich moss, keep the light off for the rest of the day, and skip feeding heavily for 24 hours.
Compatibility
Safe tank mates
- Neocaridina (cherry) shrimp
- Amano shrimp
- Nerite, mystery and ramshorn snails
- Small tetras, rasboras and danios
- Corydoras and otocinclus catfish
- Guppies, endlers and platies
- Kuhli loaches
- Planted community tanks
Will eat them
- Cichlids of any size
- Bettas with a high prey drive
- Goldfish and larger barbs
- Crayfish and freshwater lobsters
- Large gouramis and angelfish
Questions about this product
Yes — 25 is a comfortable stocking level for a cycled 10 gallon. A rough guide is one to two ghost shrimp per gallon in a planted tank with good filtration.
Customer reviews
All alive, all active
Shipped Monday, arrived Tuesday morning in a heat-packed box. Every single shrimp was swimming when I opened the bag. They were picking at my hair algae within the hour.
Perfect for a classroom tank
I run a 7th grade ecology unit and these are the ideal invertebrate to observe — transparent bodies mean the kids can literally watch digestion happen. Arrived healthy and the care sheet was genuinely useful.
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