#SHROMP Week 2023

[montereybayaquarium]

Shrimp. Shramp. Shrump!

Shellebrate the wonderful world of shrimp (and their shrimp-like friends) with this playful parody of “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch”. We promise by the end, you’ll want to hug a deep-sea shrimp, squeal about cleaner shrimp, and be fascinated by mysid shrimp!

If you weren’t shrimpressed before, we’re sea-rtain this song will krilly change your tune!

[shirai-torizawa]

Chill Shrimp inspired by the Monterey Bay Aquarium lives

[gayforthesun]

in honor of shimp week may i present….

scissoring :) a crawdad that came in with our latest shipment of feeder fish. she(?) is enjoying crawling around on the water sprite which, in my foolishness, I assumed wouldn’t become dinner since it FLOATS, but here we are

[yetanotherknitter]

SHROMP WEEK

nice excuse to post some pics of my first week owning cherry shrimp, including a berried one!!

[historicalfictionsims]

Steggy Week 2023 - Day 4 (Family and Friends)

With a cameo by Shromp.

The Growing Together EP was released four months ago, but I haven't gotten around to exploring all the features yet. This is set in the late 1950s.

I understand why toddlers can’t make a jigsaw puzzle or use the treehouse, but it made it so that the whole fam couldn’t interact with all the items. Despite spending time with Steve, who currently stays at home, Amanda has become a bit defiant by being a picky eater and trying to delay bedtime. Sarah is the most active of the children, while Sam prefers arts and crafts.

The splash pad is anachronistic for the time, especially considering that public pools were often closed during the summer for fear of polio, but it was something from the pack that toddlers could participate in.

I currently have two saves with Steve and Peggy. This one was created a couple years ago, and I’m still using it for scenarios when I need ready-made kids. That’s why it doesn’t include any infants. My other save is brand new and will go step-by-step. After they get engaged and then married, they will start having children.

@steggyfanevents

[ambiguousadulation]

Happy Shromp Week 2023!! Heard about it last minute but I HAD to make something to celebrate since aquatic invertebrates are my favorite AND it’s a great event to educate about nature!!!! I chose a blue rilli shrimp in honor of the ones I JUST bought yesterday. Go check out @montereybayaquarium for more awesome #shrompweek2022 posts and fun things!!!!! 🦐🍤💙💜♥️💕 #shrompweek #shrimpweek #shrimpweek2023 #shrimp #cherryshrimp #bluerilli #digitalart #montereybayaquarium #aquarium #unacctmango (yes i did make this in like 45min) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp_z6BCtONE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[montereybayaquarium]

Mantis Shrimp, Seamount High, Sea-nior Class of 1984

Voted: Best Eyes & Most Likely to Start a Fight Favorite quote: “Party on, dudes.”

The mantis shrimp is truly bodacious—its radical colors and totally tubular eyes (they can move each eye independently!) are out of this world. It also packs a gnarly punch—capable of cracking glass—making it one of the baddest stomatopods around 💪😎

Rock on mantis shrimp, don’t ever change, and let’s hang out this summer!!

[montereybayaquarium]

🎬 Lights, camera, SHRIMP!

Pass the popcorn, we’re sea-ing stars! 🤩 The shrimp have taken over the sea-nema and become shellebrities in these re-imagined movie posters… Which one do you think would be a hit film?

[montereybayaquarium]

No one: 

Shrimp: Who are you? Who, who, who, who? 🦐🦐🦐🦐

Dive into our ✨updated✨ personality quiz and discover your inner shrimp!

[montereybayaquarium]

Sometimes you gotta sing your own shrimple song… 🎵

🎉🦐HAPPY SHROMP WEEK 2023, CRUSTACEAN NATION!🦐🎉

[montereybayaquarium]

The time has come...

...to raise some shell🦐

SHRIMP WEEK IS BACK MARCH 19-25!

Join us across our social channels as we shellebrate all the shrimps, shramps, shrumps, shromps, shremps, and shryyymps that make the world go round. Want MAXIMUM shrimpage in your week?? Text SHRIMP to 844.786.2927 to receive a very shrimportant message every day during the week.

[montereybayaquarium]

There once was a little crustacean,

Who wanted to be a sensation.

Though the outcome looked bleak,

We created a week,

And now it’s beloved by the nation!

Thanks to our shrimpeccable staff for sharing their clawesomely creative shrimp limericks 🦐✨

Shrimpress us with your best submission in the notes!

[montereybayaquarium]

🚨🦐They are a set. Do not separate.🦐🚨

(🔊sound on)

Hailing from the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific and Red Sea, the cleaner shrimp has a very important role in the coral reef community. Also known as the scarlet skunk cleaner, this crustacean sensation uses its bright coloration to advertise its services to large fish. 

The shrimp sets up shop on the reef at a “cleaning station” where other shrimp and fish cleaners gather.  When a “client” fish arrives, the tiny shrimp can slide in and out of gill slits, inside the mouth, and roam all about the fish’s body, removing dead skin and parasites. 

This cleaning arrangement is symbiotic—the shrimp gets to pick tasty treats off the fish, and the fish gets groomed. Shrimp come in handy when you don’t have hands 🤷

[montereybayaquarium]

✨🦐Behold the brilliant blue blasts of barf that best baddies in the black of the bay!🦐✨

Okay, it’s technically not barf… This vibrantly vermillion little deep-sea shrimp, Acanthephyra sp., is a savvy spewer that spits up a sparkling secretion to outsmart sneaky shrimp snackers.

That glorious glowing goo is a special fluid it creates in its hepatopancreas (kind of like an all-in-one liver-and-pancreas combo organ), which lights up upon contact with oxygen in the surrounding seawater. By blasting a predator in the face with bioluminescence, it distracts them long enough for the shrimp to make a swift escape! 

🎥: Shoutout to our fronds @mbari-blog for the first three clips!

[montereybayaquarium]

Keeping it short and shrimple today 🦐