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Just a topic.

When i was around 16 my then girlfriend purchased one of these for my birthday:
I cant fully blame her because i wanted one for ages and the shrimp survived/lasted for around 2 years, once they died i used the ball as an ornament but my dog knocked it over and it smashed on the floor. I wanted to know for ages what the shrimp were but i couldn't find any information online at the time as that was about 17 years ago. At around 2015 i looked into these shrimp again and found what they were and had to get some so i did my research and with some trial and error i got a decent amount of happy and breeding Opae ula shrimp! I already had freshwater shrimp for a number of years previously so i wasn't 'new' to keeping shrimp.

It wasn't the easy factor to keeping these shrimp that made them so attractive to keep but how long they live for and how adaptable they are and i found this amazing. Not many people in the UK keep this shrimp and they were incredibly hard to source over here so that is where i thought id do my part and help get these guys available for everyone in the UK to enjoy. With their numbers dwindling in the wild i think its important to keep this species alive.

Odin, I originally saw them in ecospheres in a store called Sharper Image in the states a long time ago (around 20+ years ago is best guess) but they were too expensive but thought they were so neat. On a trip to Oahu a few yrs back, I purchased some at the Shirokiya in the Ala Moana mall and brought them back on a plane. That was the beginning...

Oh yeah the spheres were very expansive, this one was around £120 all those years back and only had around 5 shrimp in it!!!


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Sushi. Just sprinkle a bunch on top of rice or raw and down the hatch.

Actually mines the same as opae ula related. Also saw them in a huge ecosphere at Disney World in Florida.

Beachworld used to rent those huge ones out but they never said how much it cost. This one is 30cm wide and is 600 Euro ($730) http://theartofscience.eu/en/negozio/be ... eachworld/

$730!! Forget Ebay... ha

opae ula related wrote:$730!! Forget Ebay... ha

i know right! i should put my prices up

I bought my first opea ula shrimp like 10 years ago and fed them to my seahorses. Now I feel so bad about it. Lol.

Rey wrote:I bought my first opea ula shrimp like 10 years ago and fed them to my seahorses. Now I feel so bad about it. Lol.

Expensive food source now a days, i've seen on some sea horse forums some people wanting to breed these for food but not having success, i guess they think they will breed prolifically and readily as cherry shrimp.