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Though Mysid's can be very cannibalistic they aren't like Tigers that go looking for baby shrimp to eat. They stay in pretty much the same spot and make figure 8 swimming patterns until they are disturbed. In my limited experience that is what I have observed. I bought a culture of supposedly 100 Mysid Shrimp a little over 4 months ago. I put about 50 in a Seahorse\Pipefish Nano tank with little rock and tons of feather caulerpa and in about 3 months they were pretty much all gone. I wasn't mad because that's what they were bought for. I put about 10 in a fishless Nano Cube Frag tank and now I have about 75 in there. I put 6 adults (yeah only 6) in my refugium that is loaded with grape caulerpa. In the refugium I also put a big block of blue filter foam out of my Aquapod for the baby Mysids shrimp to hide in. In 4 months there are about 50 adults (that I can count) in my refugium and about 50-100 collectively in every small crevice and crack in my main tank. You can only see them at night as their eyes reflect the light from my pen light. The only way they could have got there was through my Blueline HD-55 (1100 GPH) pump. If you give them enough food and rock work and places to hide in they will fill every nook and crevice in your tank. If you cage them I believe you’re just setting yourself up for failure as they have a maximum life span of about 8 months from what I’ve read. Plus the females release the fully formed babies as they molt. If you guys want to try a starter culture, I am trying my hardest to build up my culture for distribution. The best thing is that they will continue to feed your fish and corals though out the day. -David