soo I come home to see;

[misstish]

my biggest ghost shrimp(big mumba) EATING my last guppy.
yeah, thats right, I figured the guppy would be dying soon
because he got sucked up into the hose thingie I use for
my water changes and I found him swimming in my tub. lol
Well I got him out, he turn mostly black with white spots.
Awesome. Well, it was a very interesting site to see big
mumba darting across the tank trying to hide this guppy.
I went to get the net and I got back to get it out.
Can't find it ANYWHERE. So I guess I'll have to keep
a close eye on him with it.

wish the quality was better, my camera phone sucks sometimes and
these bad boys are just hard to get a good picture of.

 

[superleggera123]

haha nice! clear pic would be better but still awesome

 

[misstish]

like I said, if was it was clear. I have LOT better ones on my
actual camera but I can't find the cord.
Have stunning pictures of my alpha male cichlid.
well, I want to say he is a male, he bullies the others
and its twice as big as all of them. and he came from
the same batch of fry as all of them. wow. lol

 

[superleggera123]

hmm what cichlid is it?
send me a pic and ill try to sex him!
the way you describe him however is pointing in the direction of a male or alphamale cichlid

 

[misstish]

he is a convict, when i find my cord i will.
will be sometime tomorrow, I'm going to spend some time with friends,
I've had waaayy to long of a day. lol
He is about maybe 1/2 inch, so it will be verrrry hard to sex him right now.
but I'm sticking with a him. Deff not getting rid of him though.
he is my favorite along with big mumba!

 

[balton777]

Shrimp for a pet? Hmmm, I use prawns for feeders every now and then. I picked up 6 dozen little 1"ers a couple of months ago and this one has been living and growing in my overflow. I took him out a few days ago and threw him in the tank. Now he's a little turd. I kept one in there one time until he was 6" before feeding him.

 

[Fat Homer]

I have one lone feeder shrimp left in my tank which used to catch some of the smaller dither fish i had in the tank... that was till one of my fish bit off one of his claws, which has now turned him back into a true scavenger looking for little morsels of food left over...

 

[misstish]

awwh, yeah my ghost shrimp is my baby, I've come very attached to him.
When the cichlids get big enough to eat him I think I'm going to put him in his own tank
along with little t(my other ghost shrimp) and put something small in it. Maybe like
a little goldfish or something... they aren't that hard to kill.

I can't tell you how many sheds I scooped up from big mumba. He is growing
fast, seems like every water change I find one. He's bigger then my biggest
baby convict. and my biggest one I would say is 1/2 inch, maybe 5/8's