The Battle of Shrimps
I brought some ghost shrimp home today for my red eared slider Sugarfoot.
Sugarfoot has been horribly malnourished by her previous caretakers and is a special case kind of RES. She's itty bitty so whenever I have the cash I like to add protein in the form of guppies or minnows to her diet. However, todays shrimps were not on the menu.
I thought, these little fucks are nearly clear, super fast, and low to the ground. She looks up to scan for food and so she shouldn't see them.
Even if she eats one or two, they're a quarter each. Meh.
So I walk to the tank with the bag of shrimp and shrimp water and the turtle stopped pretending to be a tank rock and scuttled over hungrily. She has learned you see that clear baggies often contain delicious minnows.
So, I dump the bags contents into the tank and she scans around and dissapointedly see's no fishes.
She then tilts her head to the side to scan the bottom of the tank, new trick. She see's movement but the thing is clear so she's confused. She scuttles along slowly trying to figure the shrimp out. I'm thinking, oh no. this will only end in tears.
Then one of the brazen little fellows jumped up on her back and began grooming her shell.
This, was pure hilarity to me. so I dumped some sticks (food sticks not birch or teak) in and let nature take it's course. I'm sure the shrimp will be fine. They're like ninjas... and there's a million of them in there.
I'll keep you posted internets on how the shrimp war goes.
Thus far it's 0-0 Turtle Shrimp. no casualties.. yet.
Sugarfoot has been horribly malnourished by her previous caretakers and is a special case kind of RES. She's itty bitty so whenever I have the cash I like to add protein in the form of guppies or minnows to her diet. However, todays shrimps were not on the menu.
I thought, these little fucks are nearly clear, super fast, and low to the ground. She looks up to scan for food and so she shouldn't see them.
Even if she eats one or two, they're a quarter each. Meh.
So I walk to the tank with the bag of shrimp and shrimp water and the turtle stopped pretending to be a tank rock and scuttled over hungrily. She has learned you see that clear baggies often contain delicious minnows.
So, I dump the bags contents into the tank and she scans around and dissapointedly see's no fishes.
She then tilts her head to the side to scan the bottom of the tank, new trick. She see's movement but the thing is clear so she's confused. She scuttles along slowly trying to figure the shrimp out. I'm thinking, oh no. this will only end in tears.
Then one of the brazen little fellows jumped up on her back and began grooming her shell.
This, was pure hilarity to me. so I dumped some sticks (food sticks not birch or teak) in and let nature take it's course. I'm sure the shrimp will be fine. They're like ninjas... and there's a million of them in there.
I'll keep you posted internets on how the shrimp war goes.
Thus far it's 0-0 Turtle Shrimp. no casualties.. yet.