ShrimpWatcher42
15th Dec 2006, 12:50 AM
Hello everyone.
I hope that I am in the right place. I have been trying to go through all these posts. I am not at all interested in breeding shrimp. I simply have this shrimp that I got at some petshop near to my town. His name is Lefty. When I got him, he was less than half-an-inch long. Nine months later, he is almost five inches long and he has his own tank where he lives alone, because he eats all other shrimp, fish, basically anything I put in with him. For awhile, he was missing his right primary pincer from a battle with another shrimp (that he won, obviously) and so I named him and put him in his own ten-gallon habitat. Since then, his pincer has grown back and he has enjoyed a diet of goldfish, minnows and pretty much every kind of fish or crab food that I put in his tank.
I had thought he was a Mosquito Shrimp because of his red horn, but looking at the pics on this site I wonder now if that's what he is. If anyone can help me, I'd be grateful. If I'm wasting bandwidth because I am not a breeder then I'll understand if you need to delete the pics. I just really want to know, for my own sake, what manner of shrimp, exactly, this little monster is. I've grown quite fond of him, he's tenacious and quite interesting. Hope the pics at least, are good enough for this site; your photos are of the HIGHEST quality and I am a mere amateur. Anyway. Thanks for reading, and thanks for looking at these pics. What is this guy?
I hope that I am in the right place. I have been trying to go through all these posts. I am not at all interested in breeding shrimp. I simply have this shrimp that I got at some petshop near to my town. His name is Lefty. When I got him, he was less than half-an-inch long. Nine months later, he is almost five inches long and he has his own tank where he lives alone, because he eats all other shrimp, fish, basically anything I put in with him. For awhile, he was missing his right primary pincer from a battle with another shrimp (that he won, obviously) and so I named him and put him in his own ten-gallon habitat. Since then, his pincer has grown back and he has enjoyed a diet of goldfish, minnows and pretty much every kind of fish or crab food that I put in his tank.
I had thought he was a Mosquito Shrimp because of his red horn, but looking at the pics on this site I wonder now if that's what he is. If anyone can help me, I'd be grateful. If I'm wasting bandwidth because I am not a breeder then I'll understand if you need to delete the pics. I just really want to know, for my own sake, what manner of shrimp, exactly, this little monster is. I've grown quite fond of him, he's tenacious and quite interesting. Hope the pics at least, are good enough for this site; your photos are of the HIGHEST quality and I am a mere amateur. Anyway. Thanks for reading, and thanks for looking at these pics. What is this guy?