I caught about a dozen of clear see-thru shrimp in a pond...?

Question

Can someone tell me the different kind of shrimps there are that are see- thru. I know there is glost and glass shrimp. Is there any other kind? These shrimp are not as clear as the class shrimp.

I LIVE IN MIAMI FLORIDA

I look at the pictures for fairy shrimps and they are not fairy, they look like a regular ghost shrimp. Maybe it is, but I want to make sure.

Answer 1

Ghost Shrimp and Glass Shrimp are actually just two names to describe the same group of shrimp: the genus Paleomonetes. The species are rarely differentiated because they are almost identical, and usually found living together in the same location. You almost certainly have Ghost/Glass Shrimp... especially in Florida where it many Ghost Shrimp are commercially harvested. As Chaos said, there are Fairy Shrimp, but I doubt that is what you have considering they are most prominently found in the western US... Feel free to email me if you have any questions.

Soop Nazi

Answer 2

Where do you live? You may have caught fairy shrimp.

There are many varieties of shrimp with somewhat see-through body parts.

[edit] Probably ghost shrimp then. We get fairy shrimp up where I live, though.

Answer 3

They maybe fairy, but look more like ghost shrimp, There are two types of ghost shrimp, brakish water and fresh water ghost shrimp. braskish, which i have some myself, maybe have colorations and patters, but are still clear compared to other shrimp. Braskish water shrimp can live in freshwater and have little and as i said maybe be tainted, or have small white dots, Have white stripes. There is also SEA ghost shrimp, but i don't you got does.