My friend owns a fully closed shrimp jar that only has moss but somehow the shrimps are healthy and breeding for months. He has never open it to feed or change water. How?? I think the shrimps are opae ula.
by Aimboy321
My friend owns a fully closed shrimp jar that only has moss but somehow the shrimps are healthy and breeding for months. He has never open it to feed or change water. How?? I think the shrimps are opae ula.
by Aimboy321
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opae ula have a long life span, eat very little (bacteria film and algae that forms is enough), and being brackish (salty water, but not as salty as the ocean) they have few if any known diseases. Their waste breaks down to ammonia, bacteria eat the ammonia, ultimately to nitrates, which acts as fertilizer for the moss and algae.
As long as evaporated water is topped up, temperature is in livable range, and there is sufficient light — it should keep going indefinitely
This one looks so cool. I want to make something like this so there is life around me at work but I work in a cubicle with a desk light and no window