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Blue Bolt Shrimp: What's a Fair Price?
Blue Bolt Shrimp cost $5.20–$13.99 per shrimp today; the median is $7.15. Based on 12 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 4 US vendors, updated September 2, 2026.
Cheapest per vendor
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| Vendor | Listing | Per shrimp | Listing price | Stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Shrimp Aquatics | Blue Bolt Shrimp — 5 (5 shrimp) | $5.20 | $26.00 | in stock | view → |
| Shrimpy Business | Blue Bolt Shrimp — 40 Shrimp (40 shrimp) | $6.00 | $239.95 | in stock | view → |
| Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW | Extreme Blue Bolt Caridina Shrimp | $9.00 | $9.00 | in stock | view → |
| Flip Aquatics | Blue Bolt Shrimp | Regular or Mostly Blue — Imported / Mostly Blue / 1 Shrimp | $13.99 | $13.99 | in stock | view → |
| The Shrimp Farm | Blue Bolt Shrimp for Sale (Shipping 9/8/26) | pack-priced | $39.99 | in stock | view → |
Per-shrimp prices are computed from pack size (a $33 ten-plus-one pack is $3.00/shrimp). Shipping and live-arrival guarantee terms differ by vendor and can change which one is cheapest to your door.
Reading today's numbers
The highest per-shrimp price for Blue Bolt Shrimp today ($13.99) is 2.7× the lowest ($5.20). A spread that wide is common for Caridina morphs and usually isn't the same animal at wildly different prices: grade is the usual driver, with higher-grade or selectively bred lines commanding more than standard stock. Pack size matters too — larger packs tend to work out cheaper per shrimp. When judging a price, the median ($7.15) is the better anchor than the low: the cheapest listing can be a large-pack price or a lower grade. If a quote is well above the median, check the vendor table above to see what grade or pack you're comparing against. Note that 13 of 25 tracked listings are in stock right now; today's stats come from the in-stock ones.
Keeping them alive once they arrive
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A new colony needs stable, tested water and shrimp-appropriate food more than anything else. Chewy — a general pet retailer that sells no live shrimp and is not one of the vendors this index tracks — carries shrimp food, water test kits, and water conditioners.
Price history
The per-shrimp market median for Blue Bolt Shrimp has changed 2 times in 50 days of tracking. Median shifts here usually come from the in-stock mix changing rather than vendors repricing (how these prices actually behave). Genuine repricings land on the price drops page as we observe them.
Common questions
Every answer below is computed from this page's own numbers at build time, and updates with the daily data refresh.
- How much do Blue Bolt Shrimp cost?
- The median is $7.15 per shrimp, based on 12 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 4 US vendors as of September 2, 2026. The range runs from $5.20 per shrimp at the low end to $13.99 at the high end. One other vendor sells them in packs whose animal count the listing doesn't state (The Shrimp Farm), so those listings are excluded from the per-shrimp figures rather than divided by a guessed pack size.
- Which vendor has the cheapest Blue Bolt Shrimp?
- Superior Shrimp Aquatics has the lowest verified per-shrimp price at $5.20 per shrimp, as of September 2, 2026. Prices exclude shipping and live-arrival guarantee terms, which differ by vendor and can change which store is cheapest to your door. Pack listings without a stated animal count cannot be compared per shrimp and are left out of this comparison.
- Which vendors sell Blue Bolt Shrimp?
- 5 of the US shrimp vendors the index tracks list them as of September 2, 2026: Superior Shrimp Aquatics at $5.20 per shrimp, Shrimpy Business at $6.00 per shrimp, Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW at $9.00 per shrimp, Flip Aquatics at $13.99 per shrimp and The Shrimp Farm at $39.99 per pack (animal count not stated). Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
- Has the price of Blue Bolt Shrimp changed?
- Yes. The per-shrimp market median has changed 2 times across the 50 days the index has tracked them. Shifts here come from the in-stock mix changing — listings selling out or restocking — rather than vendors repricing.
- Are Blue Bolt Shrimp in stock right now?
- 13 of the 25 listings the index tracks for them were in stock as of September 2, 2026, across 5 vendors.
Cite this page: Shrimp Price Index, "Blue Bolt Shrimp price," data through September 2, 2026. https://shrimppriceindex.com/morphs/blue_bolt
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- The Bulk Discount, Measured: What Pack Size Does to Per-Shrimp Price
We check Blue Bolt Shrimp prices at every vendor we track, every day. How the index works · Cheapest shrimp today