Monthly Archives: December 2008

Last night I spent some time building what I am calling “The Dwarf Shrimp Wiki”. This part of TheShrimpFarm.com will contain profiles of Dwarf Shrimp as well as articles.
So how is this different from what already exists?
The biggest difference that you will see is that users can now leave comments on articles and Dwarf Shrimp [...]

 There are 3 days left in our Christmas Contest.  Be sure to join now by visiting our Contest page!

You could win 10 Tiger Shrimp or 20 Neocaridina sp. (wild type) provided by our sponsor TheShrimpTank.com

The baby Self Cloning Crayfish are all over the aquarium now. They have become quite inquisitive and hungry. Whenever I feed them, they rush to the food and gather in large groups.
Just to show some scale on how big they are, here are a few pictures:
Baby Self Cloning Crayfish on Java Moss:

Self Cloning Crayfish Baby
Baby [...]

Let the clone wars begin!

Self Cloning Crayfish Baby

The Self Cloning Crayfish are out and about on their own now! I was able to snap a picture of one of the babies. They are small enough to easily fit inside a straw from the fast food chain Wendy’s!
I am going to have to set up a [...]

Self Cloning Crayfish are normally very charismatic and outgoing. They spend a lot of time foraging and will often times react to an aquarist coming near the aquarium with what I call a two-claw salute (they raise their claws up in a defensive position). But, when the Self Cloning Crayfish becomes berried [...]

In the Christmas Spirit TheShrimpFarm.com has decided to hold a contest that will give two contest winners some free shrimp!
Our sponsor, The Shrimp Tank, has supplied 10 Tiger Shrimp:

and 20 Neocaridina sp. (wild type):

First place will win 10 Tiger Shrimp and second place will win 20 Neocaridina sp. (wild type).
If you would like to join [...]