#grass shrimp

[skrimply]

appreciate my creatures you freaks

[remicoreart]

more tracing than drawing, but i did a fun little exercise with some arkansas native critters using negative space! (all are tracings of photos off google, they’re easy to find if you google the species.)

i was heavily inspired by @hoorayitsefe on instagram! she did a cute fish and flower one and inspired me to do the sort of scratch paper design. i definitely needed something to turn my brain off a bit and relax and this is so fun, might be adding more of these in the future 👀

[shrimpin-aint-easy]

humchback

[a-simple-shrimp]

Shrimp of the Day #9

Hippolyte Inermis

Also known as the grass shrimp or great seagrass shrimp.

[thatfishchick]

An assemblage of animals native to the estuaries of the Mid-Atlantic, including grass shrimp and snails.

[thingsinlfmymom]

[askscalestails]

Hi! I'm a relatively new fish keeper and I want to try my luck with a planted tank! I have an empty 15 gallon and a 10 gallon and I want to set up a planted tank with shrimp. Do grass shrimp and betta fish mix? Just one betta of course. Is it possible?

Usually, yes. But sometimes bettas attack the shrimp and they have to be removed!

[livingdock]

In addition to collecting information about the biodiversity of organisms found within the Living Dock, we are also surveying for population variance across the different crate habitats. The surveys consists of removing the crates from the water one at a time and letting animals fall out into a fiberglass tray placed underneath and counting specimens in the tray plus any found remaining within the crate itself. It is not a perfect surveying method but gives us some idea as to which crates certain animals prefer most. Crate A9 continues to be the most popular for fish and especially shrimp (see photo above). Here are the numbers from the September 16th survey for fish, shrimp and crabs found within non-plant based crates. 

A3 (clam shells) = 1 mummichog

A6 (eel mop) = 6 mummichog, 54 grass shrimp

A7 (sediment) = 3 mummichog (juvenile)

A8 (oyster shells) = 7 mummichog, 43 grass shrimp

A9 (loose rope + oyster shells) = 27 mummichog, 152 grass shrimp

B3 ( oyster shells) = 5 mummichog (juvenile), 16 grass shrimp

B7 (stone) = 18 mummichog, 31 grass shrimp, 3 blue crab

B8 (eel mop) = 14 mummichog, 48 grass shrimp