A fun aquarium scene for BluecanLee on twitter- a challenge to get out of my usual color-comfort zone, but a great excuse to break out the fluorescent pink. Gouache, colored pencil, and acrylic on watercolor paper.
Big claw pistol shrimp! Full grown at around 2" this female is one of the largest pistol/snapping shrimps in the world. These guys have a complicated array of snaps used for communication, warning/self defense, and taking down prey. Shrimps will snap to communicate with other shrimps in the tank, definitely not something you want to keep in the room that you sleep in unless you like waking up to 2:00 a.m. gunshots.
If all yall sent me a dollar rn I could buy something very nice for myself like a saltwater shrimp, taco 🌮 perhaps some ice tea. I know one individual can just fill in the treat for me without a sweat. My today's goal is three hundred bucks behind. Whoever sent a tip would definitely be getting a mouth 👄 watering surprise in return 😉
IRL SHRIMP ONLY, no shrimps from movies, shows, comics, etc.
All kinds of shrimps are welcome! Freshwater, saltwater, brackish water, aquarium, and wild.
Colloquially known shrimps are welcomed too! They don’t need to be known as shrimp scientifically.
(UPDATE) Please don’t submit a place, activity, or someone simply called shrimp, shrimpy, etc. Only submit aquatic crustaceans that people call a shrimp.
Submit your shrimp HERE
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i have No interest in keeping a saltwater tank EXCEPT that i want a mantis shrimp. i know they’re like pests in the aquarium world bc they will kill and eat the rest of ur stock and fuck with ur corals and they usually burrow so u rarely even see them but i have a beautiful fantasy world where i have one of those rimless cube tanks with a bunch of coral selected to compliment my one huge and beautiful shrimp that’s always out and about being so so pretty
i wonder what would be the best time to ask my new boss if -- oh shit hang on post cancelled the last adult fairy shrimp in the jar culture on my desk just started randomly convulsing and twitching all over the place be4 sinking to the bottom. i think it might be his time to go. a moment of silence for the last of his generation 😔😭 hopefully he got the chance to pass his genes on... i'll find out when i dry out the jar and rehydrate it in a months time if we actually managed to get any viable eggs outta this colony