Hate it | Not my type | it’s ok | Good | Great! | One of my Favorites! | I LOVE IT!!
cool little guys! Not quite as pretty as red cherry shrimp and not quite as cool as amano shrimp but they’re a nice, cheap, basic shramp
Noodle’s Rating:
Hate it | Not my type | it’s ok | Good | Great! | One of my Favorites! | I LOVE IT!!
The petsmart in my town gets shipments of feeder ghost shrimp every tuesday (or maybe wednesday i forgot… i do remember that you’d have to go in early in the day in order to get some.) I once bought 3 live ghost shrimp to feed to noodle. I put one in the tank and she snuck up on it all stealthy-like. but! when she got close the shrimp poked her in the face with it’s little antenna thing. It scared the hell out of noodle and she darted away and then hid under a rock and refused to eat for 3 days. she hates them.
it’s even funnier when you get a sense of the size of the shramp vs noodle
i only give her frozen food now and she’s happy with that. She doesn’t like her food to move
Arizonafairyshrimp.com sells a batch of retail fairy shrimp eggs containing a variant that has an orange/red exoskeleton and legs instead of the usual white/clear. These are the same species, but one is the red variant and one is normal. They’re also, respectively, female and male, but I also have red males and normal females. Next batch, I’m gonna sort them by color before they mature and see if that red breeds true. Maybe even try to selectively breed for a bright red?
Some orange neocaridina davidi and one of the many new shrimplets
Shrimp! Daphnia and fairy shrimp, mostly. Hopefully a mix of beavertail and fairy shrimp, but I can’t tell yet because they’re too young.
Captions:
*video shows a number of small invertebrates swimming at the surface of an aquarium. Some are round and move in jerking motions, some are long, thin, and swimming upside-down by means of a large number of tiny legs that move in rippling motions. The round ones vastly outnumber the slender ones, at least a 4:1 ratio, but are smaller. The water around them is visibly cloudy, and all the round invertebrates are crowded near the surface, where a light is visible. Narrator is not visible.*
“This is actually a really good view. Here’s my assorted shrimp. Those are probably daphina at the surface, li’l poppy guys, and then the long ones with the li’l wiggly legs are fairy shrimp. And I just fed them, which is why the water’s kinda cloudy, they’re eating yeast. And they’re attracted to the light, which is why there’s all that popcorn [referring to the popping motions of the round invertebrates clustered at the surface] up there. Little fairy shrimp just kinda wiggling around. Those smaller ones that look kinda like short fairy shrimp are newer-hatched ones, a whole bunch of them hatched when I added new water ‘cos they thought it rained.”
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