SquishyFishy Posted December 21, 2014 Share Posted December 21, 2014 I'd trade my skunk for another sexy no problem. He sometimes scampers across everything hoping to steal food and makes everybody close up! The sexies are always on the nems front and center and I hand feed them, they love flake food. I once had 4 but the 2 smallest guys disappeared. I figured the hermits got them. Now a hermit is gone so all is fair in love and war. LOL Quote Link to comment
cmb2104 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 Got my first sexy shrimp today! it was a free! when you spend enough money they work you a bundle deal! lol im thinking of names but not sure if it male or female? i cant find thos post that shows the difference.... and thoughts? 1 Quote Link to comment
cmb2104 Posted December 28, 2014 Share Posted December 28, 2014 It's female. thats what i thought! thanks! Quote Link to comment
cmb2104 Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 anyone have any food recommendations?.... the pellets we have are super tiny and cant be handed to the sexy shrimp.... Quote Link to comment
cindyp Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 anyone have any food recommendations?.... the pellets we have are super tiny and cant be handed to the sexy shrimp.... i use OMGEA ONE small pellets and they've been able to grab and eat (i use tweezers) ever since they were wee little sexies. i also feed them reef frenzy frozen seafood, which they love. they'll often grab from the flower nems when i feed them too. 1 Quote Link to comment
tess&ellie Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 It's female. How can you tell them apart I have 5 of them and can't see a difference Quote Link to comment
CrazyEyes Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 I love that my newly added sexy shrimp went right to my purple hornets and not my eagle eyes. Wtf is that all about, I knew they ate coral when I bought them but why do they insist on eating at my 20+ polyp zoa colony and not the the cheap ass eagle eyes, pretentious bastards. 2 Quote Link to comment
massage Posted January 9, 2015 Share Posted January 9, 2015 Check out the first page post #4 the first picture is male. the 2nd picture has a male on the left and female on the right. Males are thinner through the body and have a solid line and females are thicker with a broken line on the tail. Quote Link to comment
opaquelace Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I google imaged female sexy shrimp. Don't do it. (Or do, it's definitely NSFW). Anyway what I want to know is I bought two sexy shrimp today. When putting them in the tank they lost each other. Will they find each other again? One looks to be female and the other male and I'd like them to hang out together. 2 Quote Link to comment
HVani Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 Picked up a reverse trio last night. I'm in love! I wanna get some more. A whole herd of them for my 34 gallon. 1 Quote Link to comment
SquishyFishy Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 I have a herd of 4. First bought 3- lost one so bought another, lost him so bought another...then one of them reappeared making 4 again. These little guys are adept at hiding when they are wee....come back out when bigger. I love mine! Like I said, their home is the 2 nems, I've seen them sometimes go exploring on the sand but they almost always stay up on the nems. Never bothered my Zoos 1 Quote Link to comment
Partially Submerged Posted January 22, 2015 Share Posted January 22, 2015 Had three, loved them. They started eating my torch coral. I still loved them, but from afar. Because I took their little shrimp a$$es to my LFS. Great little creatures though. 1 Quote Link to comment
cindyp Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 I have a herd of 4. First bought 3- lost one so bought another, lost him so bought another...then one of them reappeared making 4 again. These little guys are adept at hiding when they are wee....come back out when bigger. I love mine! Like I said, their home is the 2 nems, I've seen them sometimes go exploring on the sand but they almost always stay up on the nems. Never bothered my Zoos i always see them in my 8g. love that. they usually are perched on my flower nem or somewhere else conspicuous. 1 Quote Link to comment
cmb2104 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 i always see them in my 8g. love that. they usually are perched on my flower nem or somewhere else conspicuous. i have an 8 gal too..... my 2 (LANAAAA and Pam) are almost always visible and usually together..... they have a few favorite hang out spots! 1 Quote Link to comment
kylhcky Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 just picked up 3 from my lfs because they were on sale for $6 a piece, 2 females and 1 male. 2 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 That's a great deal! You'll love them Quote Link to comment
cmb2104 Posted January 23, 2015 Share Posted January 23, 2015 i keep waiting for my lfs to get more in.... i need one more lol.... i got one as a freebie for spending so much lol and then i had to get her a friend! 2 Quote Link to comment
ReachTheSky Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I'd like to get somewhere between 3-5 of these little guys for my 7.5g cube (fishless). What's their bio-footprint like? I barely have any filtration and very little live rock in the tank so trying to minimize bioload as much as I can. 1 Quote Link to comment
cindyp Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I'd like to get somewhere between 3-5 of these little guys for my 7.5g cube (fishless). What's their bio-footprint like? I barely have any filtration and very little live rock in the tank so trying to minimize bioload as much as I can. as far as i can tell, very minimal. mine take pellets to eat. i used to feed them every day, but since i began feeding the nems and fish, i am maybe spot feeding them once a week, twice tops with pellets or reef frenzy. Quote Link to comment
hopkins Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 These little guys are one of my favorite things in my tank. 1 Quote Link to comment
chanathon Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 My frogspawn and zoas have been retracted for a good month now. I never suspected but I think I caught my sexies eating them. Never spot fed but think I'm going to have to start Quote Link to comment
DurocShark Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I picked up a pair last night. $12 each. I grabbed a purple condy (I think) nem too. Bad idea in retrospect, but it looks so awesome. The sexies show up in my dropcam now and again: http://dropc.am/p/DurocShark Best pic I could get last night: Quote Link to comment
cjm3fl Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I love these guys. Looking forward to putting a couple in my tank. I know someone on another site that's had some success with them breeding. She just released 7 into her display tank that were born in March. Quote Link to comment
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