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Atya gabonensis

Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 5:47 pm
by Newjohn
Just wanted to share a couple of pictures of what I found today at the Local Pet Store

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John

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:15 am
by Mustafa
Nice shrimp! Looks like it's doing great as it's happily filtering. :)

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 4:35 am
by bpmox
Haha, my initial reaction was "Holy Shit!" because for a second I thought the leaf in the 2nd picture was a hand and finger pointing at the shrimp.

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:12 am
by zapisto
bpmox wrote:Haha, my initial reaction was "Holy Shit!" because for a second I thought the leaf in the 2nd picture was a hand and finger pointing at the shrimp.
heheh
would me amazing :)

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:24 pm
by Newjohn
Hi bpmax

Sorry, it is not a Giant.
Even though one of the Common names is
Giant African Filter Feeder.

And Please watch the language
"Holy Shit!"
John

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 1:33 pm
by southerndesert
That is a very nice shrimp and thank you for sharing the wonderful pgotos. I like the way its hanging out under the oak leaf...

Nice find at a LFS for sure.

Bill

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 3:19 pm
by Neonshrimp
I agree it is a nice looking shrimp. You can also see it is safe to keep with much smaller shrimp, I see the bees/bumblebees in the last picture :-)

Newjohn is right about the language, we have some younger members and other's who prefer not to be exposed to it.

Thanks.

Re: Atya gabonensis

Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:39 pm
by Terran
bpmox wrote:Haha, my initial reaction was "Holy Shit!" because for a second I thought the leaf in the 2nd picture was a hand and finger pointing at the shrimp.
I thought the exact same thing :-D