Passing a Pet shop, with a few tanks, I
spotted one tank (no water flow) with about 5 Shrimp in, and quite a
few small fish, most of the Shrimp were in a huddle not moving but one
was searching the gravel which I've read means it's hungry as they're
filter feeders, Atyopsis Moluccensis - Bamboo/Wood Shrimp and seen as
I'd a small tank set up with nothing in - Sold ! asking the owner if
they sold Liquifry I was asked what for ? to feed the shrimp untill I
get an Infusoria culture going was my reply, you don't need that they
eat bits of food and Algae pellets off the gravel I tried to explain
that they sat on a rock etc. in a water flow and let the food come to
them but it fell on deaf ears ??? Got home and rearranged the rocks in
the tank and fit the filter opposite. Acclimatised the Shrimp and put it in. As soon as it landed on the
bottom it was off foraging I dropped a drop of Liqifry in by the filter
out flow, it climbed the rocks and started feeding then I added a pinhead
size Spirulina Powder (Algae) to tank water in a pipette and squeezed it out
just in front of it, it couldn't eat it fast enough. It's exploring the
tank at the moment certainly not hiding
the
feathery fronds on the front four legs are like sea anenome legs and
are sticky so as bits of food in the water current stick to them the
Shrimp closes them in turn and pulls them through it's mouth to suck the
food bits off.
I think that was my Good Deed for the day rescuing it from a pet shop that didn't even know what or how to feed it. I'm still waiting for my Brackish tank to go through it's Nitrogen cycle before I can get some Shrimps for it
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