Howdy! :)

chunkymonkey_321 · Post by **chunkymonkey_321** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 2:38 pm

I am ecstatic to have found this site. I need some advice. I have a small ecosphere with about 15 shrimp. How do i break it? What should i do? I don't want to torture these poor shrimp.

Bradimus · Post by **Bradimus** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:08 pm

What is it made of?

chunkymonkey_321 · Post by **chunkymonkey_321** » Wed Dec 15, 2004 7:58 pm

glass.

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:06 am

Hi,
It cant be compleately glass....
If there is a plastic component try to get that part off over a bucket.

TKD

cich · Post by **cich** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:31 am

If you still need to break the glass, a sharp tap from a hammer or something hard-heavy would work. Just be sure not to swing at it, but rather tap it firmly enough to break it without smashing your shrimp with the hammer.

Post by **Mustafa** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:47 am

And make sure you have a brackish water tank with a specific gravity of about 1.012-14 ready and cycled when you decide to do all that.

MarcR · Post by **MarcR** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:06 am

not sure the type of shrimp as i contacted the company and they said they were saltwater shrimp!!

It is 100% glass from what i could see from them @ a store brookstone i think

Post by **Mustafa** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:49 am

It's not a saltwater shrimp..it's a brackish water shrimp. It's on my shrimp variaties page:

http://www.petshrimp.com/hawaiianredshrimp.html

It's Halocaridina rubra.

MarcR · Post by **MarcR** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:23 am

They lied then. I tried to contacted them before and they said they were saltwater shrimp
Wow I had no idea....
Anyone thinking about purchasing one of these read mustafas bio on them.....
If only i had known..

Post by **Mustafa** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 8:47 am

They can actually "live" in full strength saltwater but they stop eating (and start shrinking) and lose coloration and just feel miserable over all. At some point they will die just like in those little torturespheres.

Mustafa