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by Gregor Samsa Mendel
Thu May 25, 2006 4:28 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: cherry shrimplets with adult ghost shrimp?
Replies: 11
Views: 5089

I agree with badflash, although I must admit I am not a very experienced aquarist. Recently I set up one tank in my classroom that had only plants, snails and ghost shrimp, and another tank with only snails, cyclops and daphnia. During boom times for the daphnia, I would transfer them to the shrimp ...
by Gregor Samsa Mendel
Tue May 23, 2006 6:21 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: ‘Living fossil’ found in Coral Sea
Replies: 4
Views: 1657

Jeepers creepers, where'd it get those peepers?

Don't hold your breath waiting for this critter to make it to the aquarium trade.
by Gregor Samsa Mendel
Fri May 12, 2006 6:46 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Yellow thing thats not eggs in a cherry shrimp?
Replies: 11
Views: 4103

My original plan was to get a minimum order from Mustafa, but he's Temporarily out of stock! and I'm impatient (as I said before, I imagine that my gals are getting pretty frustrated). On the subject of shrimp parasites--I've seen ghost shrimp with parasitic horsehair worms coiled up inside of them....
by Gregor Samsa Mendel
Fri May 12, 2006 5:25 pm
Forum: General Shrimp Forum
Topic: Yellow thing thats not eggs in a cherry shrimp?
Replies: 11
Views: 4103

The red cherry shrimp I bought from my LFS a few weeks back all looked like the one in Terran's photo. I went back to the LFS and bought the slimmest, palest shrimp in the tank. Within a few days of being placed with the rest of my shrimp, "he" molted, started turning redder, and developed...