http://www.rsba.ca/recherche_espece/fic ... =45&lan=en
However last year, for the first time in my life (I'm 24 at the moment btw),I had never seen a real shrimp there! But I sort of understand now. The shrimps hiding there are amazingly well adapted and very cool to look at, I found them while looking at those gammarus, These shrimps were very, very interesting for the short time I was as the beach.
http://www.rsba.ca/recherche_espece/fic ... =80&lan=en this shrimp seems to carry many different names but the scientific name for them is : Crangon septemspinosa
Link to my online folder : https://drive.google.com/folderview?id= ... sp=sharing
I'll just do a quick note here for the pictures in case some aren't obvious or clear enough, you will quickly find out why. Found it easier to just tell where on a round clock where they are. You can also zoom if you want.
Picture #2 : on the right side of the first shrimp from the left you can see a baby shrimp
Picture #4 : another baby on the top right
picture #5 : There ya go, in their natural habitat. No wonder I had never seen them before. Look at the small white shell in the center, go halfway at 3 O,clock there is one very well camouflaged shrimp.
picture #6 : At about the same place as in picture 5. Yup, that's a shrimp. It's hard to tell, I know.
picture #7 : in between the two water glare or change of coloration you can see one (top right) on this same picture you can see a gammarus* swimming at 5 o 'clock with it's shadow underneath. There may be more shrimp in that picture but I can't find them anymore.
picture #8-9 : natural habitat, no shrimp in those pictures. I think.
picture #17-18 : A lot of smaller/baby shrimps by the black rock! (upper half) With glare and my girlfriend's forehead reflection.
picture #19 : I released them all afterward, I had no clue how to care for them or if they were endangered so I thought it was the wisest thing to do. two shrimps one at 3 or 4 o'clock and the other one at 9. They are fairly easy to see.
picture #20 : Gammarus at 5 and shrimp at 11.
picture #21 : this one should be easier
at 3 again.picture #22 : this one is hard, at 4 or 5, it simply look like sand, you can spot it by the outline. At first it actually looks like a dark branch or something.
picture #23 : Thoughest one yet IMHO. at 4 or 5 o'clock again, it was carefully hidden in the sand. Very hard to see also, I only had my cellphone to take these pictures so I couldn't get a better focus. (still It ain't too shabby for a cellphone camera)
So, like I said, I released them all afterward, I absolutely had no clue how to care for them or if they were endangered. Or had a cycled saltwater/brackish tank.
However If there is any guide on how to care for those shrimps, I may go and catch some next year spring/summer... if I find them. Who knows, right?
