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pixl8r
05-10-2008, 10:44 PM
I find this species of shrimp very fascinating. They live in calm, murky, organic laden water. They don't get too large, only an inch or so, but the females have enormous eggs.

Here's a picture from http://www.wirbellose.de and excellent invertebrate resource, but it is in German. Note the size of eggs compared to the shrimp.
http://www.wirbellose.de/upload/1203546089.jpg
Mgamer20o0
05-11-2008, 12:55 AM
wow so cool.... all the best shrimp sites are in german
thebullit
05-11-2008, 2:37 AM
them eggs are huge!
SchizotypalVamp
05-11-2008, 2:51 AM
googled him and had no caresheet matches come up on the first page :(
msjinkzd
05-11-2008, 7:15 AM
wow! That is really interesting, thanks for sharing that!
leighasnana
05-11-2008, 7:57 AM
Thats a great picture and this is going to sound very dumb but I never realized that shrimp had those two appendages in front of them (like crabs). There must be a high survival rate for the babies with so few of them being born.

Thank-you for posting that.
leighasnana
05-11-2008, 8:04 AM
I found a little bit of info on them:

http://www.shrimpnow.com/forums/showthread.php/euryrhynchus-amazoniensis-2710.html?postid=24079

They look like lobsters to me but they're called clawed shrimp.
SchizotypalVamp
05-11-2008, 3:18 PM
30 degrees?? Does she mean Celcius or Fahrenheit, lol. Thanks for the care info!
SchizotypalVamp
05-11-2008, 4:09 PM
Just looked at the profile, it said she lived in Canada. That's pretty high, though.
pixl8r
05-11-2008, 6:54 PM
Thats a great picture and this is going to sound very dumb but I never realized that shrimp had those two appendages in front of them (like crabs).

All shrimp have claws (chela) on the first two sets of limbs. The only exception to this are the filter feeder types, Atyopsis moluccensis (Bamboo/Flower/Wood shrimp) and Atya gabonensis (Vampire shrimp) are the most common types kept in aquariums.

Some types of shrimp, Palaemonid, which include the Macrobrachium and Euryrhynchus groups have large claws, compared to their body size.


There must be a high survival rate for the babies with so few of them being born.

Thank-you for posting that.

That's one theory, they could also reproduce like bunnies! ;)