macro pics of live mysid

[DebsSisterFlo]

Today I recieved my order of 100 live mysid from www.livemysid.com They arrived 100% alive and the horses just love them! Yummy! Bob was snicking at the bag and he was over there within seconds of the bag getting floated. I hope enough will survive to reproduce for a while.

 

[DABruecker]

That is really cute! (Bob not the shrimp). Great Pics!
Denise

 

[mako56]

I got to take a pic of the shrimp I have in my tank that look kinda like that and compare them to see if that's what I have. Very cool Jess, Your gona spoil them you know. What ever I have in my tank reproduces but there are places they can be without a character like Bob trying to eat them.

 

[sunfish11]

I have thousands of these little guys in my tank. The young ones swarm at night. Great Macro-shots. I would have loved to have seen them when I was trying to figure out what all those little shrimp like creatures were...

Lisa

 

[Aquabucket]

Great pics! Did you know that mysis can live as long as some gobies offered in the hobby?

Good luck with yours! You are doing a fine job caring for your horsies!

 

[DebsSisterFlo]

thanks Spike! everyone! It says on the website that the life expectancy is 5 months per generation, and the reproductive rate is 6 babies every 7-10 days per female. I sure hope there are some left out of that 100, I haven't seen any at all since the day I added them!
I'd like to get some more larger pods to add too for additional live food. I might have to get a bag of live brine this week just to be sure they're getting enuf to eat, yes I do enrich them first.

 

[tigerarmy40]

do you have a fuge for them to brees in? if not you may want to look into that!! I have heard of people using a strawberry basket in the back of the tank with rubble and sand all trapped under it so the little guys dont get eaten while trying to reproduce!! hth...

 

[Aquabucket]

From what I have read ~ in the wild some males can live up to 2 years. Pretty cool for such a small animal.