I'm already plotting what to replace my peppermints with, so I figured I'd solicit some opinions.

Which one do you like best?

Scarlet Cleaner Shrimp
Fire Cleaner Shrimp
Pederson Anemone Shrimp (video)
Spotted Cleaner Anemone Shrimp
Venus Anemone ShrimpThe first two are cleaner shrimp, similar to peppermints, but better behaved. They are usually ( Read more... )

I just came home and saw that my shrimp has died. When the first one went, I was kind of waiting for him to follow, but he was healthy for long enough it took me by surprise ( Read more... )

Ah Spring Break - that time of year when schools take a much needed break, the weather begins to warm up (haha), and a girl's thoughts turn to the endless possibilities of spending an entire week at home and able to accept packages.

Or maybe that's just me.

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Class starts at noon. I'm in the library. I got here early to put the finishing touches on our legal writing brief, which is due at 6:00 tonight. My edits are done. Have been for a week now. I just need to integrate the edits my partner made to her argument, put page numbers into the tables of contents and citations and generally clean up the ( Read more... )

Specifically, Lybia tesselatta, aka Pom Pom Crabs.


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Among other methods, anemones and corallimorphs can reproduce by pedal laceration. Basically, a bit of the foot gets severed and the left over blob of flesh turns into a clone of the parent ( Read more... )

My sister has one of the coolest jobs ever. It would be cooler if she didn't get quite so dirty.... but aside from that I'm jealous.

Jay and I went to visit her at work this weekend and I took pictures! It was about 24 degrees out, so we pretty much had the zoo all to ourselves.

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Shrimp died this morning. The other one has been staring at me all morning.

I'm a little sad about it. Poor shrimp.

I woke up this morning and one of my peppermint shrimp had turned white. He seems to be acting ok, but I can't find any explanation online for why it lost its color. It's weird.


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