Native Invertebrates

[Moontanman]

Collecting in the S. Edisto river. Raked the grass with a dipnet hundreds of times in different areas, no shrimps. No plants yet, but might in the future. Guess I'll just have to rely on the current to keep things stirred up.

I'm not sure where that is, I live on the East coast, freshwater shrimp are very common...

 

[TheNonEuclidean]

The South Fork Edisto River. Long blackwater river in SC. After about 100 attempts, getting netfulls of weeds and/or muck, never saw a single snail or shrimp or even shells. Did get several leeches, but they arent helpful. The river is VERY soft and acidic though. Not conductive to large populations of shelled critters.

 

[Moontanman]

The South Fork Edisto River. Long blackwater river in SC. After about 100 attempts, getting netfulls of weeds and/or muck, never saw a single snail or shrimp or even shells. Did get several leeches, but they arent helpful. The river is VERY soft and acidic though. Not conductive to large populations of shelled critters.

I hate to say it but black water here in NC is usually full of shrimp... I usually catch them in the cape fear and surrounding rivers and creeks...

 

[TheNonEuclidean]

I hate to say it but black water here in NC is usually full of shrimp... I usually catch them in the cape fear and surrounding rivers and creeks...

I might try and go out once more at night, see what happens.

 

[Moontanman]

I might try and go out once more at night, see what happens.

Beware of cottonmouths and alligators dude...

 

[TheNonEuclidean]

Should be fine on gators. Point taken though.

 

[duanes]

To get shrimp where I live, I scoop up a bunch of leaf litter from the bottom of a stream with the net and drop the scoop of detritus into a bucket of water, and start removing the leaves and twigs, there are almost always shrimp and crayfish left after the leaves are gone.

if I keep a crawdad, usually only one per tank (180 gal), otherwise they fight to the death

 

[TheNonEuclidean]

To get shrimp where I live, I scoop up a bunch of leaf litter from the bottom of a stream with the net and drop the scoop of detritus into a bucket of water, and start removing the leaves and twigs, there are almost always shrimp and crayfish left after the leaves are gone.

if I keep a crawdad, usually only one per tank (180 gal), otherwise they fight to the death

Great looking shrimp! Yes, thats how its supposed to work. i did just that, pulling up leaf litter and clumps of weeds, only inverts i got were insect larvae and leeches... might try again at a different location.