Live Ghost Shrimp — 500 Count
Half-thousand restock quantity with wholesale-level pricing and a ship-day confirmation call before the box leaves.
$269
$480
$0.54 each
- Live arrival guarantee on every order
- Ships Monday–Wednesday, continental US
- Overage included to cover transit attrition
- Retail restocks
- Bait shops
- Large feeder programs
About these shrimp
Live American glass shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus), hand-counted and packed the morning they ship. A retail restock quantity. Orders at this size get a confirmation message the day before shipping so someone is there to receive the box.
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
Our rolling live arrival rate on 500+ orders is above 98%. Anything below the guaranteed threshold is credited or replaced on the next shipment.
Customer reviews
Our shop's regular supplier now
We move a few hundred a month and the counts have been accurate or slightly over every time. Communication before shipping day is the part other wholesalers get wrong.
Cold weather order, zero losses
It was 14 degrees the day these landed. Insulated box, 72-hour heat pack, and a bag of water that was still warm. I've had worse results ordering in July from other sellers.
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