Not sure if this belongs here, but my husband bought this closed Ecosphere for me when we first started dating in 2011. Ghosty the little shrimp is now 14 years old.
by EeekPancakes
Not sure if this belongs here, but my husband bought this closed Ecosphere for me when we first started dating in 2011. Ghosty the little shrimp is now 14 years old.
by EeekPancakes
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Wow, I love this! It must be a lonely life, but this is REALLLLLLY cool.
I love the jar
That’s crazy. Do you know what kind of shrimp?
I used to have a bunch of those I bought at a shop in a mall in Houston Texas in 2000. I wish I knew what happened to them.
Where can I get one!?!? Where can I get one!?!?
You can find out more about them at [/r/OpaeUla/](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpaeUla/) if you’d like. They’re amazing little creatures. Very easy to keep them in your own jarrarium. A gallon or so will allow a small colony to breed—which isn’t possible in a closed Ecosphere (there were likely 3 or 4 in there originally). They need a bit of oxygen and occasional feedings to live their best lives, but they can survive off just algae and surface film, etc. for quite a while.
I had to check to make sure this wasn’t my parents shrimp. Theirs lived about 20 years.
THAT IS SO FUCKING COOL!!!!!!!!!
/r/shrimptank would think this is cool