It’s about time I took photos of these guys in my tank. It’s easy to always find the Crystal Red Shrimps (CRS) and Red Cherry Shrimps (RCS) and in your excitement forget these chaps – the Green Neon Shrimp I mentioned in my previous post.
Be warned. The rest of the post is image intensive.
Because they are green and in a planted tank, they can be a little hard to find. So today, I whipped out the camera and macro lens and caught a few pictures of them.
A view of its’ back.
A pregnant female Green Neon Shrimp.
Here’s a Green Neon Shrimp hanging out with a juvenile RCS and a shrimplet, possibly also an RCS.
Here’s another one with the Green Neon amongst spiky moss with another young RCS.
Since the camera was already pointing toward the tank, I could not help taking more pictures of the other shrimps.
A slightly over-exposed baby RCS on moss. Because of the flash, you can make out the little dots making up it’s pattern and colour.
Here’s an RCS with a shrimplet nearby. Can you spot the little guy?
Okay, I’ll give you a little help in this photo. A CRS hangs out with a Green Neon, an RCS juvenile and a shrimplet that’s so young, the colour hasn’t come out yet and is hard to identify.
And not forgetting my rhino shrimps.
Besides shrimp, it seems I’ve also been breeding snails. Lots of them. Time to hold back on the food!
I picked up these gelatinous sacs that actually stick onto whatever surface they’re laid on. Each sac contains more than 20 little snails.
After a few hours, they dried up. When they dried up, I dropped some water on them and they became gelatinous again.
I’m wondering if these sacs can endure a period of dry and if the young would survive. But I’m not into breeding snails and crushed them all up before I could find out.