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Crystal Black Shrimp: What's a Fair Price?
Crystal Black Shrimp cost $4.20–$5.50 per shrimp today; the median is $4.45. Based on 10 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 | Crystal Black (CBS) Shrimp — 5 (5 shrimp) | $4.20 | $21.00 | in stock | view → |
| Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW | Crystal Black (PBL) Shrimp | $4.25 | $4.25 | in stock | view → |
| Shrimpy Business | Crystal Black Shrimp — 40 Shrimp (40 shrimp) | $4.40 | $175.95 | in stock | view → |
| Coast Gem USA | Live Freshwater Aquarium Shrimp Crystal Black Shrimp (Caridina) — 10 Shrimp (10 shrimp) | $4.50 | $45.00 | in stock | view → |
| The Shrimp Farm | Crystal Black Shrimp for Sale | pack-priced | $34.99 | 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 Crystal Black Shrimp today ($5.50) is 1.3× the lowest ($4.20). That is a fairly tight range, meaning vendors broadly agree on what this shrimp is worth right now. When judging a price, the median ($4.45) 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 11 of 16 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 Crystal Black Shrimp has held steady across all 50 days we've tracked it. That's normal here: US dwarf shrimp prices hold still rather than drifting — genuine repricings are vanishingly rare across the whole index (we measured this across the whole market) — so today's numbers above are a dependable benchmark, not a snapshot of a jittery market.
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 Crystal Black Shrimp cost?
- The median is $4.45 per shrimp, based on 10 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 4 US vendors as of September 2, 2026. The range runs from $4.20 per shrimp at the low end to $5.50 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 Crystal Black Shrimp?
- Superior Shrimp Aquatics has the lowest verified per-shrimp price at $4.20 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 Crystal Black Shrimp?
- 5 of the US shrimp vendors the index tracks list them as of September 2, 2026: Superior Shrimp Aquatics at $4.20 per shrimp, Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW at $4.25 per shrimp, Shrimpy Business at $4.40 per shrimp, Coast Gem USA at $4.50 per shrimp and The Shrimp Farm at $34.99 per pack (animal count not stated). Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
- Has the price of Crystal Black Shrimp changed?
- No. The per-shrimp market median has held steady at $4.45 on every one of the 50 days the index has tracked them. US dwarf shrimp prices hold still rather than drifting: the index has yet to observe a single genuine repricing of a shrimp listing.
- Are Crystal Black Shrimp in stock right now?
- 11 of the 16 listings the index tracks for them were in stock as of September 2, 2026, across 5 vendors.
Cite this page: Shrimp Price Index, "Crystal Black Shrimp price," data through September 2, 2026. https://shrimppriceindex.com/morphs/crystal_black
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