Shrimp, Snails, and Crabs
Brackish Pond Shrimp
Palaemon varians
Photo: Fish-in-a-box · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Key facts
- Temperature5–25 °C
- pH7.5–8.5
- Adult size5 cm
- Difficulty★☆☆☆☆
- TemperamentPeaceful
Full profile
- Family
- Palaemonidae
- Origin
- Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Europe
- Size
- 5 cm
- Temperature
- 5 – 25°C
- pH
- 7.5 – 8.5
- Salinity
- 1.005 – 1.020
- Difficulty
- ★☆☆☆☆
- Water type
- brackish
- Behavior
- Pacific
- Diet
- omnivore
- Reproduction
- offspring that develop in brackish water
Notes: Lives in marshes and salt flats; tolerates extreme changes in salinity. Very hardy.
