#Thalassinidea

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Decapocember Day 9: Axiideans and Gebiideans were once grouped together in the infraorder Thalassinidea. It was recently discovered that while they occupied similar ecological niches and had similar shapes, they were of different lineages. They're still both called mud shrimp sometimes, though.

[snowflakeeel]

Rate the ghost shrimp?

For this one I’m gonna give two ratings!

My Rating:

Hate it | Not my type | it’s ok | Good | Great! | One of my Favorites! | I LOVE IT!!

cool little guys! Not quite as pretty as red cherry shrimp and not quite as cool as amano shrimp but they’re a nice, cheap, basic shramp

Noodle’s Rating:

Hate it | Not my type | it’s ok | Good | Great! | One of my Favorites! | I LOVE IT!!

The petsmart in my town gets shipments of feeder ghost shrimp every tuesday (or maybe wednesday i forgot… i do remember that you’d have to go in early in the day in order to get some.) I once bought 3 live ghost shrimp to feed to noodle. I put one in the tank and she snuck up on it all stealthy-like. but! when she got close the shrimp poked her in the face with it’s little antenna thing. It scared the hell out of noodle and she darted away and then hid under a rock and refused to eat for 3 days. she hates them.

it’s even funnier when you get a sense of the size of the shramp vs noodle

i only give her frozen food now and she’s happy with that. She doesn’t like her food to move

Rate!That!Fish!