RCS Native to Hawaii

it could be someone might have put them in there. With the warm temps that they have there I dont see why they couldnt live.

They are not native, they were introduced and have displaced much of the native hawaiian shrimp.

i think fukubonsai.com have information

like yoink said, they are not native, but an invasive species. someone imported them years ago as feeders or some similar purpose and once loose they found Hawaii perfect like most other invasive species, no competition or real predators. they have been sold by the lfs here as feeders for decades, i have bought them since i was in elementary school. also, the ones in our streams are not RCS, but the wild form. the red and all other colors are illegal here.

Wow, thanks everyone. I did not expect this question to get answered so quick.

Yep, they're taking over our native opae xD