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Re:freaked out over shrimp!
Hello fellow fish keepers! I know that you won't mind this slightly strange
post. About four or five months ago, I bought four of those amano shrimp to
put in my planted 38. These are not ghost shrimp, but the fancy, somewhat
expensive algae eating sort. I decided to quarantine them because I am
paranoid about disease. Well, all but one quickly died of unknown cause. I
dropped the remaining shrimp in the 38. When I didn't see him anywhere for a
couple of months I thought he was dead. Then two weeks ago, I saw a HUGE
molted shell on top of the driftwood log. It was eaten within hours by
snails, so I knew he must have left it the previous night. Last night I saw
a weird looking projection on my log just at lights out. I thought, hey I've
never seen that before, is my log falling apart? Then it moved it's
antennae!! It was my shrimp!! He was HUGE, and dark chocolate brown with a
mahogany tail. He looked almost as big as a crawdad. Now every single
picture in books and on the net has these shrimp sort of clearish gray with a
couple of teensy maroon spots, sort of the same color as ghost shrimp. How
come he turned brown? He perfectly matches the log and lives in a crack in
it, coming out at night to eat algae. Anyway, rejoice with me, my shrimp
lives!! Thanks Teresa.