Yeah, figured that would be the case. Hopefully I come across some eventually, Would be intriguing to set up a jar for them, I haven’t seen them in a reef setting although I read something about them being brackish shrimp.
I was reading about them and they are brackish shrimp and can even be converted to marine but I don't know how true that is. Only place you can get them from is Hawaii and of course from anyone who has access to them. I've never seen them in my LFS. They do look pretty cool!
I got some with my seahorses from Ocean Rider. I also saw one retailer for them, petshrimp.com. I've never ordered from them though. Also, be aware, they're expensive. I wanted to add to my population that came with the seahorses, but just haven't convinced myself to do it yet. They're pretty low maintenance, once they're set up. I have mine in an unheated bucket in my basement with a sponge filter. If I remember correctly, I think I set them up at 1.011. It's whatever Ocean Rider suggested. I might try a few in my low end brackish tank once that's set up. I usually forget they're there for several weeks at a time (the bucket has a lid because they like it dark, so there's very little evaporation), and then I remember to check on them, and they're just swimming about. Ocean Rider sent macroalgae to feed them, and they must eat it, because that's all I've ever given them. I just checked, and it looks like I've had them for about 2 months.
