Green Shrimp

scrimp · Post by **scrimp** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 1:21 pm

I must have these little things! Im becoming a fanatic lol

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:43 pm

welcome to the club then.

filishy · Post by **filishy** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:23 am

Yeah...

I want those guys too...

Can't find them around here, though...

scrimp · Post by **scrimp** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 6:36 pm

Today at my LSF they said they would order me some but I dont thinkt hey even knew what I was talking about hopefully they can get some in. I found these strange shrimp that can walk on land today!

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 12:39 pm

Hmmm. Good news/bad news day yesterday. Came home to find one of my cherries had died.

It was an adult, so maybe it was just "time".

But as I checked out the tank to see if everyone else was ok, I saw that not one, not two, but THREE of my greens are pregnant. Whoo-hoo!

One is only carrying a few eggs though, so it's possible the boy(s) didn't get to her and she's already dropping them. We'll see...

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:14 pm

amanda_h wrote:Hmmm. Good news/bad news day yesterday. Came home to find one of my cherries had died. It was an adult, so maybe it was just "time".

Sorry to hear about that

amanda_h wrote:But as I checked out the tank to see if everyone else was ok, I saw that not one, not two, but THREE of my greens are pregnant. Whoo-hoo!

Good news!

amanda_h wrote:One is only carrying a few eggs though, so it's possible the boy(s) didn't get to her and she's already dropping them. We'll see...

Fingers crossed

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:54 pm

It's been a few days, and I'm still seeing at least two green shrimp still carrying eggs. I don't know about the one who only had a few eggs (hard to keep track of shrimp in my tank).

However, there's one green shrimp in there who's carrying one egg. It's been at least a couple days, so I'm sure it's viable. I'll try to get a pic of her. It's great -- she's taking good care of that one egg -- she keeps fluffing and aerating it. I'm really rooting for her.

scrimp · Post by **scrimp** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:46 pm

Ill keep rooting that those shirmp some how find their way in a plstic bag marked with my address

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:47 pm

Sorry scrimp. I'm afraid you're gonna have to get in line!

scrimp · Post by **scrimp** » Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:51 pm

AHHH when will the shrimp trade take off even more to get out soem wonderful shrimp to those of us who need them!

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Sun Oct 24, 2004 7:19 am

amanda_h wrote:Sorry scrimp. I'm afraid you're gonna have to get in line!

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 10:53 pm

I love the colour variation in these shrimp...

And I finally got a pic of the girl with only one egg...

You can also see a pregnant cherry (all blurry) in the background there.

ronin · Post by **ronin** » Fri Oct 29, 2004 9:46 pm

Wow, how and what are you using to take those pictures? They're gorgeous. =)

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 30, 2004 7:59 am

Thanks ronin!

Mustafa and I discussed this late one night in this thread, so I won't re-type it all.

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Wed Dec 08, 2004 9:19 pm

This is so cool.

Whenever I drop food in the tank, all my shrimp crowd around to get their share. Tonight, one of them was a green shrimp carrying eggs.

A couple hours later, after the light went off, I stopped by the tank to have another look, and I saw a teeny tiny baby shrimp on the glass. I mean a teeny tiny baby shrimp. I looked around a bit more and saw another one a few inches away. Looked around a bit more, and I saw the pregnant green shrimp (I could tell which one she was because she has a mark on the side of her head) -- and she only had a couple of eggs left.

Damn! If I'd been sitting there watching, I could've seen the babies born!!