Tiny Shrimp ID please

[djconn]

Hi guys,
I guess I really haven't told anyone but I'm moving to San Antonio in a few weeks so today I'm in the process of breaking down and moving both my 20 and 5.5 gallon tanks. Anyways, can someone ID these little shrimp for me? They've got pinchers and really look pretty cool. I've got two of them in a seperate cup until they're identified. There is a quarter in a few of the pics for size reference. Thanks!

By the way, I'm taking pictures of all my steps during the move to show everyone later. So far, so good.

 

[incysor]

They look like some type of pistol shrimp. Hard to tell what kind. They may get more color as they get larger I suppose.

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[djconn]

Cool. Is one larger claw a charastic of a pistol shrimp? I know lots of shirmp display this feature but just wondering.

Back to moving the tanks...my back hurts! :x

 

[dragon79]

how cool you are breeding pistol shrimps, hehe, you'll make a fortune selling them, I always see them priced expensive, and even more if they paired up with a goby.

 

[incysor]

Cool. Is one larger claw a charastic of a pistol shrimp? I know lots of shirmp display this feature but just wondering.

Back to moving the tanks...my back hurts! :x

I'm basing it on that, mainly because every pistol shimp I've ever seen had one claw much larger than the other. It's not a very scientific method. 8)

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[dragon79]

They look like some type of pistol shrimp. Hard to tell what kind. They may get more color as they get larger I suppose.

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what ever happened to them? any updates? Well I tell you today I do a water change on the pico 1.5 and I find in the whisper 10 filter a tiny shrimp much like yours. He's an active little guy...i wonder if I have a baby sexy, hehe...that would be so cool. It's hard though to see if they'll ever grow or not to better identify, but I have also a .75 pico I just recently got, so I threw it in there, it'll probably be sucked up by the filter and live in the filter system like it was living in the pico 1.5