Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything on here, and even longer since there’s been new life in my fish tanks. Well, today marks the end of both streaks. I’m not sure exactly when it happened, but sometime in the last few weeks one of my ghost shrimp had her babies. There have been plenty before I’m sure, since I’ve got 4 females (and had more) and they have been pregnant a lot. This time, however, some of them have survived long enough for me to notice them. They are probably only a few weeks old, but it’s hard to say, as I’ve never seen the babies before, and I can’t seem to find much info online about the size they should be. One is a bit larger than the others, which may mean it was born first, or it might just be female. At any rate, most of them are about a half inch long, with that one being perhaps five-eighths of an inch. They’re really hard to find, and it’s taken me almost an entire day to confirm that there are indeed five of them.
Tag: fish
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miniscule
In other news, I got four more ghost shrimp over the weekend, so now I’m back up to a whopping eight shrimp. The lady picked out the four biggest ones she could find, so they are most likely females (not being mean, that’s just the way the female shrimp are). One of them was very pregnant.
Today, I noticed one of the pregnant shrimp looked a bit smaller. It would appear that maybe some of the eggs hatched, but it still looks like there are some there. I’ll have to do a bit of observing to be sure.
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small update
I’ve got some good news, and some bad news. The bad news is that you don’t get to choose. Actually, I separated my pregnant ghost shrimp so that her babies could have a chance to not get eaten when they hatch. Unfortunately, she died sometime in the night, so the babies are done for. The good news is that I have another pregnant ghost shrimp. Unfortunately, I’m down to 4 of them now, so I’m really counting on those babies to survive. It could be two weeks or more until they hatch, so for now, I wait. Maybe Walmart will still have some left next time we go down there. At any rate, I can’t abide the thought of life without ghost shrimp right now… Ok, maybe I could, but not very well.
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shrimp babies
Well….not quite. One of my ghost shrimp now has eggs. Inside them are babies. Unlike the shrimp themselves, the eggs are not clear. They are bright green. How weird is that? I took about 25 pictures, and 3 of them turned out pretty good. They are the first 3 in that album. You may have to view the full versions to actually see the individual eggs. I’m going to have to do some more reading on how to care for the babies. Hopefully, I can find some way to keep them alive, but feeding may be a problem, as they are likely to be very small.
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ghosts
Well, last night I decided to spend some of my Christmas money, and I bought 10 ghost shrimp. I actually ended up with a freebie, since the lady dropped one on the floor. This morning one of them was dead, so that may have been the one. They’re cute little guys, so hopefully neither the mollies nor the frog will pester them too much. They’re pretty small too, so you’ll probably want to view the larger pictures.
If you look close, you can even see the heart (the little red blob behind the eyes).
