Mysis Shrimp questions

There is a guy selling packages of 100mysis shrimp for pretty cheap on internet. The seller claims you should place them directly into your tank and they will reproduce and become a great and constant food source for mandarins and and other fish.

Was wondering the opinion of this board because I have no clue if any of this is true or wise, I just happened to stumble on it while doing my usual internet searches.

My tank is 4 years old, (although the last year it was very unkept, untill 2 months ago) and I have about 100lbs of LR in my 50tall tank. I had a mandarin dragonet about 2years ago in the tank and it seamed to be doing great , but died like everything else in my tank due to heat fluctuation (over 4degrees daily).

Now my water is at 79 constantly and my water parameters have been great daily for a month (thought i was having PH probs but it was just a faulty test kit). Anyways my point is now I want another mandarin and im pretty sure my tank is established enough, just unsure of the food source cause I read that 1 dragonet can outeat its food supplies reproduction.

Thanks again.

Thanks again

 

Whats the link? True and wise, whats the price? wait mysis, yah, pretty sure

FWIW, mandarins will except Cyclopeeze, both frozen and freeze dried. Mine love it. I feed it to all new imports at my facility as well. They sure dig it. Peps them right up.

 

Its on Ebay , auction #4318893429 , apparantly the guy has realized he could get more money than he previously thought , cause the price has gone up to 34$ now, with only a buy it now auction.

Still this price isnt that high, was just wondering the opinion of this board cause the guys at the LFS told me that my fish would just eat all the shrimp before they could get established and settled.

I have a maroon/yellow clown, a yellow coris wrasse, and a sand sifting goby(unsure the type, its the usual one though)
Have acropora, an anomene that is about 25%size of my entire tank(50g tall), leather finger coral, lots of mushrooms etc

Also thanks for the advice on the cyclopeze, ill get some of that, where is the best place to order it.

Thanks again

 

I thought Mysis was a fresh water shrimp? I'm sure there are salt water variety's, But I know they are less nutritious. I would assume they would compete for the same food source as your pods and my not get established enough to reproduce before they are eaten. Also It maybe similar to Bryne shrimp were survival rate is very low and tends to just fowl the water.
I will check out the auction once I get home (Firewall @ work)

J

 

Just to clarify things a bit.  The shrimp that PB was talking about are Mysid not Mysis.  These are two very different shrimp.  The Mysid is a small saltwater shrimp that I have heard can be breed in a Fuge.  The article below states that they eat copepod and are cannibalistic to their young.  I would use caution and research this more before putting any in a Fuge. Mysis are freshwater that I believe are found in Glacier water.

Here is a good article on Mysid

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/issues/sept2003/breeder.htm