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Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp: What's a Fair Price?
Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp cost $12.00–$20.00 per shrimp today; the median is $16.00. Based on 2 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 1 US vendor, updated September 2, 2026.
Cheapest per vendor
| Vendor | Listing | Per shrimp | Listing price | Stock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW | Purple Metallic Tiger Nanacy Caridina Shrimp — Mid Grade (Good purple and fewer stripes) | $12.00 | $12.00 | 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
Only one vendor currently lists Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp, so today's range ($12.00–$20.00) reflects that vendor's own listings rather than a cross-vendor comparison. When judging a price, the median ($16.00) 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 2 of 3 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 Purple Metallic Tiger 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 Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp cost?
- The median is $16.00 per shrimp, based on 2 in-stock listings with a stated pack size across 1 US vendor as of September 2, 2026. The range runs from $12.00 per shrimp at the low end to $20.00 at the high end. Only one of the vendors the index tracks currently lists them at a verifiable per-shrimp price, so this reflects a single store's listings rather than a cross-vendor comparison.
- Which vendors sell Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp?
- 1 of the US shrimp vendors the index tracks lists them as of September 2, 2026: Teacher's Pet Aquatics NW at $12.00 per shrimp. Each figure is that vendor's cheapest current listing.
- Has the price of Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp changed?
- No. The per-shrimp market median has held steady at $16.00 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 Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp in stock right now?
- 2 of the 3 listings the index tracks for them were in stock as of September 2, 2026, across 1 vendor.
Cite this page: Shrimp Price Index, "Purple Metallic Tiger Shrimp price," data through September 2, 2026. https://shrimppriceindex.com/morphs/purple_metallic_tiger
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