Why are cherry shrimp so tame?

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 3:43 pm

Oh mon .... a lot of things whizzing by lately eh? Sure they are not shrimps on broomsticks

filishy · Post by **filishy** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 5:38 am

amber2461 wrote:Oh mon .... a lot of things whizzing by lately eh? Sure they are not shrimps on broomsticks

LOL

Acsuth · Post by **Acsuth** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 7:56 am

amber2461 wrote:Oh mon .... a lot of things whizzing by lately eh? Sure they are not shrimps on broomsticks

hehehe sounds like ridicule...yeah they need to 'wake up' hehe....wait a minute...just WHO is the butt of this joke?!

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 8:42 am

Nobody or nothing ... it must be the upcoming Halloween ... creepy crawly things eh Amanda?

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:11 am

Hey Amanda

~waves~

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:13 am

Hey Amanda

How are your cherries doing? Found ALL of them yet? If I were a shrimp in your tank, there would be tons of places to hide ...

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:21 am

Hee. Nope. I have no idea how many I have. Every time I think I've found them all, I spot another one hiding in the hairgrass.

You'd think the cherries would be easier to spot than the green shrimp, but the cherries tend to hide more. The greens come right up to the glass all the time.

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 2:58 pm

WEll, guess what? I found ALL of them ! ! ! ! !

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 3:18 pm

Wanna come over and count mine?

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Fri Oct 22, 2004 10:41 pm

Tee hee hee .... well ... will give you heads up if I do.

Neonshrimp · Post by **Neonshrimp** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:28 pm

I find my RCS pretty tame also. Whenever I put anything, including the gravel cleaner or net in the water they swim to and cling to it

. Pretty neat

!

bulrush · Post by **bulrush** » Tue May 30, 2006 5:13 am

My cherries are also very tame. When I use a gravel vac to clean their tank they don't run away when it gets near, so sometimes they get sucked up and I have to fish them out of my bucket. So now I have learned to bump them with the gravel vac so they will swim away from it and not get sucked up. I have not tried putting my hand in the tank yet. The other end of the vac goes into a net perched on the edge of the bucket, to catch any errant shrimp that get sucked up.

I assumed all animals found the smell of humans extremely disgusting. But perhaps shrimp do not detect human oils like mammals do.

Lady Friesian · Post by **Lady Friesian** » Tue May 30, 2006 11:10 am

About catching escaped shrimp:

Actually, it's not that hard... You just run around the living room screaming your head of until it stops moving

Call me crazy, but why would you own a pet that you're so scared of that you'd rather let it die than touch it?

Especially a completely harmless species that couldn't possibly hurt you like a vampire shrimp?

Raise a hamster next time.