Black shell shrimp is a kind of rice shrimp that we are very familiar with, and it is also a very common native shrimp that can be found in many waters in China.
Black shell shrimp have a strong ability to remove algae, and because of their large number, the purchase cost is relatively low. Therefore, it is very suitable for arranging in aquatic grass tanks or small tropical fish tanks with fish tank landscaping to help us clean up the algae in the fish tanks.
At the same time, black shell shrimp is also a very good natural feed for ornamental fish, for some predatory ornamental fish, its practical black shell shrimp to feed them is very good. On the one hand, the black shell shrimp, which will run around alive, can train these fish for their predatory ability and enhance its ornamentation. On the other hand, because the black shell shrimp contains more astaxanthin and astaxanthin, it is also conducive to some red ornamental fish with more beautiful hair color.
These are the benefits of black shell shrimp, because whoever has raised black shell shrimp knows that black shell shrimp can bring more benefits to our fish tank, and there is no harm. However, we mainly talk about this article in addition to the benefits of black shell shrimp, but also to remind you that there is a kind of shrimp in the wild, long and black shell shrimp is still a little similar, but the habit is different from black shell shrimp, some friends who have just started raising fish may confuse these two kinds of shrimp.
This shrimp is the long-armed small green shrimp, and some places also call him the big-eyed thief or the river shrimp. This small green shrimp overlaps with the place where the black shell shrimp live, but its appearance is different from the black shell shrimp. The shape of the long-armed shrimp is relatively large, and the most obvious difference is that the long-armed shrimp looks like its name, with two long pliers, but the black shell shrimp does not have these two pliers. Generally in academics, we manage two pliers called ao-foot, and the shrimp with a long ao-foot is also called ao-shrimp. However, the black shell shrimp is not a kind of shrimp, black shell shrimp is generally classified as rice shrimp in academic terms, and the biggest difference between rice shrimp and shrimp is that rice shrimp does not have a foot.
Therefore, we must distinguish between black shell shrimp and long-armed small green shrimp, why should we distinguish them well? The main thing is that the long-armed shrimp have the ability to prey, and they will use their long claws, that is, the pliers, to hunt the fish that pass by them. Therefore, if the long-armed small green shrimp grows a little bigger, and we have some small tropical ornamental fish in the fish tank, then we will find that these small tropical ornamental fish are getting less and less every day, that is, they are preyed on by crawfish. But if some of the larger ones, such as goby or Chinese fighting fish, are mixed with these long-armed small green shrimp, the problem is not big. But we must avoid mixing with some peacock fish, traffic lights, Mary fish, Mickey fish, these relatively small, tropical fish.
Finally, let's talk about the benefits of the long-armed small green shrimp, in fact, its advantages are not as much as the black shell shrimp. Because they hardly eat algae, but they will clean up the food debris at the bottom of the fish tank. In addition, according to our feeding experience, in fact, this long-armed small green shrimp does not eat aquatic grass much, so it can be properly raised in the aquatic grass tank.
This is the difference between black shell shrimp and long-armed small shrimp, and their benefits, I hope it will help you.
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