Pics Of My New Shrimp

[Shrimper]

I got a Giant African Shrimp at the weekend, he's about 2 inches long at the moment but he's going to be a monster! He is a lot less shy than I was expecting and i've managed to get these photos already.

 

[iSnail]

Nice shrimp

They are fascinating critters. I would definitely get one if I had a bigger tank

 

[Esfa]

i hate you you always have what i cant lol

 

[Shrimper]

i hate you you always have what i cant lol

I've added his pic to my signature now just to help make you jealous

To be honest I've got lucky and found the 2 shrimp I want in, both in the same LFS. I've never mentioned I wanted them other than asking if they had any more interesting shrimp once last summer so i'm wondering if somebody from the shop is spying on me

 

[~T~]

Wow hes lovely, I now have a 40gal tank ready thats going to become my shrimp kingdom. I shall be purchasing some bamboo and giant fan shrimp for sure. Can you breed these guys. I also just ordered some bee shrimps!!!

 

[TylerFerretLord]

I need to get my invert tanks set up soon. I need my shrimp fix.

Nice pics, nice shrimp, nice snail.

 

[three-fingers]

Again, nice shrimp! Although I don't know if I even have room in my tanks, if I saw specimens that nice in my lfs there's no way I could resist picking one up .

Wow hes lovely, I now have a 40gal tank ready thats going to become my shrimp kingdom. I shall be purchasing some bamboo and giant fan shrimp for sure. Can you breed these guys. I also just ordered some bee shrimps!!!

Ha ha, I nearly bought a 60gal for shrimp the other day, but decided I couldn't afford to 'do it up', so I'm sticking with the idea of a 25 gal shrimp tank.

I plan on breeding the bamboo shrimp, if my girl has eggs that hatch again (it's painful watching all the zoes being eaten by platy fry ), the only proper record I can find of the eggs hatching is from the 80's, so should be a fun endeavour .

For my first attempt I plan on breeding them like amanos, by moving the female to a freshwater 3gal to hatch the eggs, then moving the zoe's to a 5gal with water as low in salinity as Nannochloropsis phyto tolerates.

 

[Mikaila31]

Nice!

I really like those guys. I would total try to keep one if my rubber eels didn't find them tasty

 

[Shrimper]

I plan on breeding the bamboo shrimp, if my girl has eggs that hatch again (it's painful watching all the zoes being eaten by platy fry ), the only proper record I can find of the eggs hatching is from the 80's, so should be a fun endeavour .

For my first attempt I plan on breeding them like amanos, by moving the female to a freshwater 3gal to hatch the eggs, then moving the zoe's to a 5gal with water as low in salinity as Nannochloropsis phyto tolerates.

Sounds like a good idea, I wish I had room in my flat to keep enough Giant African's to try and breed them. Its a shame they are all wild caught at the moment. I don't think my tank is big enough for any more than 1 unfortunately.

There were 3 in the shop so 2 are probably still left if anybody wants one A Bargain at £10!

 

[Shrimper]

More pic:

I wish my phone could do video as well as it can photos so I could get a video of him filtering. He is by far my favorite pet at the moment.

 

[Esfa]

SEXY

I just got a vid of my bamboo shrimp filtering, so i'll put that up tomorrow... not that you care, you have one yourself.

 

[Esfa]

Ohhhh, guess who's tracked some of these down, and might be getting one tomorrow?

ME!

 

[Tacklebury]

How big will it grow?

 

[Esfa]

How big will it grow?

about 18cms.

 

[Tacklebury]

How big will it grow?

about 18cms.

blimey!!!!