Images - Atya lanipes

[Veneer]

I apologize for the poor photography.

Shortly after acquisition (left set of filtering appendages missing):



Exuvia:





Newly molted (filtering appendages regerated):



Striking coloration:

[GunmetalBlue]

Thanks for the update & pics here and on your other "collecting" thread.

I have two questions:

1.) On your last picture, there seems to be the filter part of the appendage suspended against the glass - what exactly is going on there?

2.) There was a thread some time back, a person had a filter shrimp with I think three of its legs missing. At that time, the idea of the appendages regenerating - shall I say instantaneously? during/after a molt was discussed. So - is that what happens, and when? Just after the molt, the appendage just grows??? Can you see it grow? I take it, this has to take place while the shell is still soft?

-GB

[Mustafa]

Thanks for the pictures. How many did you get? This one looks like it's a female. Did you see any males at all? I assume that the males would have a larger set of first walking legs like many other filter feeding atyids.