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Despite their predatory-sounding name "Vampire", they are a non-aggressive species that does well in community tanks that have areas to hide during the molting process. Another requirement is a moderate to strong current where the shrimp can sit and catch food. Either a very well established tank with sufficient plankton, or supplemental ...
They are found from India, [3] through Southeast Asia, to the Solomon Islands and Hawaii. [2] In the pet trade, they are sometimes called vampire crabs. This has nothing to do with their feeding habits, but rather with the bright, contrastingly yellow eyes of some Geosesarma species. [4]
Red Devil Vampire Crabs are decapod crustaceans part of Brachyura (from the Greek βραχύς = short, οὐρά = tail/abdomen). They are land living, freshwater crabs from tropical areas and are endemic to Indonesia. Like all other crabs, they have a carapace, two chelae and ten jointed legs. They are omnivorous.
Geosesarma dennerle is a species of small land-living crabs found on Java, Indonesia. [1] It is popular in the aquarium trade, [1] where G. dennerle, in particular, is often simply called Vampire Crab. Crabs called "Geosesarma bicolor Krakatau Vampirkrabbe" are probably also G. dennerle. [1]
Palaemonetes paludosus, commonly known as ghost shrimp, glass shrimp, and eastern grass shrimp, [2] [3] is a species of freshwater shrimp from the southeastern United States. [4] They can be considered a keystone species based on the services they provide to their habitat. [2] They are also popular in the domestic aquarium business. [5]
Mantis shrimp spend a majority of their lives living in burrows, reefs or crevices and generally only leave to mate or hunt for nearby food sources. Mantis shrimp act as an ecological importance ...
Pandalus borealis is a species of caridean shrimp found in cold parts of the northern Atlantic and northern Pacific Oceans, [1] although the latter population now often is regarded as a separate species, P. eous. [2] The Food and Agriculture Organization refers to them as the northern prawn.
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