snowpetals Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 Does anyone have any experience keeping poso shrimp? I'd like to start a poso tank- all poso snails & shrimp. I'm kind of obsessed with the snails already. I don't know if they are as difficult to take care of as cardinals, etc. Louie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 19, 2014 Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 The lake Poso shrimp are the saluwasi shrimp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 19, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2014 I was thinking the crystal poso, blue legged poso....theres a few others. like the guy in my photo Louie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 I actually found the blue legged poso on ebay while looking them up . Inexpensive but they look delicate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 20, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 I found a really good website with all the lake poso species as well as the other lakes and sulawesi species. pretty awesome... http://www.shrimpism.com/poso-species.html Soothing Shrimp and Louie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 Sweet. I actually saved this to my bookmarks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 I love the 3 shrimp on the bottom of the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted May 20, 2014 Report Share Posted May 20, 2014 very cool site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 21, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 I thought you might like it with all your new Sulawesi babies, Oblongshrimp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 21, 2014 Report Share Posted May 21, 2014 The snails from that lake are also very pretty but plant eaters which rules them out in my case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 I,have them. The Orange poso. Some people call them rabbit snails. They are fairly common these days. Other colors are harder to find. I keep them in my Cardinal tank, they like hard water and high ph. Mine had their first baby last,week. They are slow to produce only one every month or two. They are really neat to watch. -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 If you want an orange baby let me know my LFS has tons of them. Be happy to mail you some. -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 I have the mini yellow rabbits- they are amusing snails Louie and ctaylor3737 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted May 23, 2014 Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 I hope to be able to import a bunch of the Sulawesi snails as well. For some reason though snails have to go through the Dept of Agriculture instead of Wildlife Game & Fish.... Louie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 Let me know when you do....I'm poso-obsessed.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2014 This is dum-dum. He is a little slow in the mental department, even for a snail. How do these guys survive in the wild? Regardless, he bred for the first time this week so I'm hoping to see a mini dum dum soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 I imagine the Sulawesi snails will eat moss, plants? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 ive only seen them eat subwassertang. they havent touched any other plants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 I'm going to look into them as like them but don't want any plants eaten . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowpetals Posted May 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 i have a heavily planted tank...but i cant speak for the big guys...just the minis Louie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pika Posted May 24, 2014 Report Share Posted May 24, 2014 I hope to be able to import a bunch of the Sulawesi snails as well. For some reason though snails have to go through the Dept of Agriculture instead of Wildlife Game & Fish.... Off topic a bit, but that is really interesting... Snails are part of the life cycle for some important agricultural parasites, so I wonder if that's why? Seems like it'd be more important to fish and wildlife if the snails got into waterways, though! Louie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted June 5, 2014 Report Share Posted June 5, 2014 Off topic a bit, but that is really interesting... Snails are part of the life cycle for some important agricultural parasites, so I wonder if that's why? Seems like it'd be more important to fish and wildlife if the snails got into waterways, though! That is why they don't want then in the waterways. They are more prone to carry parasites, they are also hard to really know they are a problem until they have reproduced to an alarming rate. -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooksLater Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 We have had orange, and black posos...and they both like to eat our plants, even tough stuff like java fern. But, we were keeping them in with our shrimp at the time, which are not heavily fed tanks. It may be that if you actually feed them enough, they will lay off the flora...I gave up trying to keep them in planted and moved them to one of our non-planted tanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OblongShrimp Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 no idea what the reasoning is....its the government so who knows if they have one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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