Shrimps (lat. Caridea) - belong to the infrautor of crustaceans from the detachment of the tenty (Decapoda). In total there are about 250 genera and of them - 2 thousand species of shrimp. Different shrimp size. Adults can be from 2 to 30 centimeters. The body consists of headband, abdominal and tail departments compressed from the sides. Shrimps in nature - a very important stage in the food chain. Without it, almost all marine inhabitants could not exist.

The skeleton of the shrimp is an external, he is the shell - Carapaks, consists of chitin and minerals. The latest abdomen segments (uropod) are wide plates forming the tail fan, which a shrimp can perform sharp swimming movements. Shrimp has long antennas (mustache) - these are the organs of touch and smell. Under the antennas are the chemical feelings - antensels.

Features of shrimp

How many legs have shrimps? It seems that the answer lies on the surface, but not all limb shrimp are legs. Five rear pairs of chest legs serve to move. Breast limbs have eight pairs, three of which are all frozen to capture food and self-defense. Other five pairs of chest limbs are used when moving. The legs located on the trouser (pleopodes) are used for swimming and to wear caviar. The first pair of legs in males evolved into the coercive body. The life expectancy of different types of shrimp can range from 1-2 years in dwarf shrimp and up to 10 years in long-haired shrimps.


Where the shrimp lives

Shrimps widely spread through the world Ocean, many species settled and fresh water. In the tropical seas there is a greater species diversity. In Russia, shrimps live in the Far East, where their fauna is more than 100 species. Also found in Ukraine in the Azov and Black Seas.


Lifestyle and behavior

What you eat shrimp


Preferably, shrimp feed onto plankton, parts of algae, small invertebrates (insect larvae, worms), quickly eaten dear fish. Palaemon's appearance shrimps, less often Masrobrachium, if they are hungry, can hunt for young fish.


The reproduction of shrimp

Shrimps separatogs. Many species are protahedral hermaphrodites, that is, in the course of life, they change the floor from male to female.

Shrimps are laying up to 150 thousand eggs. Of these, the larva Zoey appears, at primitive shrimp - the nude. Shrimp larvae, this is a small plankton organism, which serves as other types of animals. The larvae is very sensitive to the external environment.


Natural enemies in nature

A large number of young individuals die at the stage of the larvae, and only a small percentage of them live to an adult state. Whales, whale sharks and other planktonoids feed on small shrimps. They also become the prey of other marine animals from the bottom fish to mollusks, sea birds and mammals.

How to use man


The meat of shrimp is rich in proteins and amino acids. As in other seafood, there is a lot of iodine. They contain all fat-soluble vitamins: K, A, E, D, vitamins C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), B9 (folic acid), RR (niacin), B-carotene. This present natural clay contains calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, manganese, cobalt, copper, molybdenum, fluorine, sulfur, zinc. The only drawback of shrimp is a large cholesterol content.


Cancer Bogomol is also a shrimp. Its length can reach 2 meters!

There is no "royal" shrimp in science, this is the conditional name of all major shrimp. The largest appearance of shrimp is a tiger black shrimp, reaches 36 cm long and 650 grams of weight.

Every year in the seas and oceans, over 3.5 million tons of shrimp are caught in the amount of 10 billion dollars. The bottom trolling shrimp destroys their habitat for up to 40 years.


The largest part of large and giant thirty-centimeter shrimps, grown on special farms. The mangrove swamps and coral reefs are destroyed in warm Asian waters. Grown artificially shrimp is filled with carbamide and superphosphate type chemicals. If these farms are in the marine strip, the tides of production take place in the sea.

By the way, the researchers discovered in a batch of shrimp 162 species of microbes, resistant to 10 different antibiotics.

Aquarist with shrimps


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Shrimps (lat. Caridea) belong to the infrared crustacean detachment of the tenty. Initially, they lived in the seas and oceans, but now they can be found in salty lakes and even in fresh reservoirs. Where exactly live shrimps, and how do they differ? It turns out that their dimensions and taste qualities are directly dependent on the locations. In the area of \u200b\u200bthe equator, a large number of shrimps diverse. The closer to the Poles of the Earth, these species are less. At the same time, the size of each individual instance is reduced simultaneously with numbers.

Warm shrimps

Heat-water shrimp can be easily found, catch and consumed in food in equatorial countries, for example, in Kenya, Brazil, Ecuador or the homeland of the most famous pirates today in Somalia. Here, in the Pacific Ocean, at a water temperature + 25 ... + 30 ° C and the largest (reaching size 30 centimeters) and delicious shrimps on the globe are also called them. For residents of the Galapagos Islands, mining and exports of these crustaceans is one of the main items of income. But the most appreciated all over the world shrimp from Latin America, where they are bred on special farms. They comply with the highest quality standards, because the hosts and workers are proud of their impeccable reputation and do not want to spoil her.

Shrimps living in cold waters

Smaller shrimps (from 2.5 to 10 centimeters) inhabit the seas and oceans, with an average water temperature + 15 ° C. If you want to see these crustaceans in their native element or taste dishes that are cooked from freshly prawn shrimps, go to the shores of the Baltic, Barents or Northern Seas. However, the most delicious cold-water shrimps, from the point of view of gourmets, are those that can be found and catching in Greenland and off the coast of Canada.

Freshwater shrimp

Freshwater shrimps can be highlighted in a separate family. They are found in the Amur River Basin, live in the cave reservoirs of the Transcaucasus. Shrimps living in fresh waters of the Far East are considered to be relic, as as a result of geological changes of sushi, they turned out to be isolated from other related species.

Effect of temperature and salinity water on the life of shrimp

Regardless of where shrimp live, their size and quality of life are subject to fluctuations in ambient temperature. The individuals living in equatorial waters are best feeling in the temperature range from +25 to + 30 ° C. If the temperature of their habitat is descended, reaching + 15 ° C and below, shrimps may die for a short time. However, the increase in temperature is only up to + 35 ° C detaching for crustaceans. For marine shrimps that live far from the equator, and freshwater living in the south of the Far East (in the northernmost areas of habitat), the best conditions - + 15 ° C. If the temperature decreases to + 10 ° C, the larvae of shrimps may die. When the temperature approaches the water temperature to 0 degrees is unable to survive and adult individuals. If the stay in not enough warm water becomes long, shrimps begin to feel bad, slowly grow or do not change in size and can exist in such conditions only 2-2.5 months.

The saltness of water is important for shrimps much less than its temperature. Since all shrimps (even freshwater) initially have marine origins, they are perfectly adapted to oscillations of salt content in water. For example, freshwater shrimps living in the Rivers of the Far East, without prejudice, is experiencing not too long increase in the level of salt water to 16. Many types of shrimp during the reproduction period are forced to migrate to places where fresh river water is mixed with salty sea, reaching the content of salt 22.

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    • Shrimp: Lifestyle

    Freshwater shrimps, where they live - an important element of the fauna of water bodies, a substantial link in the food chain. They feed Many fish and waterfowl. Have freshwater shrimps and a significant economic value.

    By the end of the XX century. Freshwater shrimp Exopalaemon Modestus was found in Khachagay's reservoir in Kazakhstan, and in Uzbekistan, Chirchik, Syr Darya, in Arnasai Lakes, was accustomed to the Chinese shrimp Macrobrachium Nipponense. It was accidentally delivered to fish water reservoirs together with young Far Eastern fish from China. The same shrimps hit the artificial reservoirs of coolers on hydroelectric power plants in the Moscow region, then on Ryazan GRES and began to multiply there in constantly warm water. Already specifically they were set in lake-coolers GRES in Belarus and Moldova. In such water bodies, the lower algae eat lower algae, which are developing in warm water in the mass, and they themselves are food for many fish. In particular, Sudak eagerly eaten. It is now undergoing experiments on dilution in the nutritional purposes of the Giant East Shrimp Rosenberg in the Volga Delta and in the heat-water pools in the Crimea.

    As showed observations in Belarus, in the reservoirs-coolers GRES for the year the number of shrimp can grow by 8.7 times or more. In Moldova, two years after the establishment, their number has grown from 2 thousand to 600 thousand.

    Freshwater shrimps are a rather valuable food product that is essential in the zone of tropics and subtropics. They are grown in ponds and on rice checks in two dozen countries of the world. In constantly warm water, shrimps can be multiplied year-round and reach a large number: up to 50 croutons in 1 m3 of water. In the USA, India, Australia, Israel in the ponds the number of shrimp can grow for the season 60 times. Mostly 10-16 species of Macrobrachium species (Macrobrachium), some representatives of which reaches a length of 30 cm and weigh 150-250 g (for example, the already mentioned giant eastern prawn Rosenbergi, Macrobrachium Rosenbergii).

    Many interesting shrimp can be found when observed in the aquarium. These creatures are not bad in captivity and over the past decade have received a fairly widespread in the aquarists. They purify aquarium plants from the backwards of lower algae, perform the role of sanitation, complement the diversity of the population of the indoor reservoir, usually limited only by fish, decorate the underwater landscape with their original species. Inquariums contain Japanese swamp shrimp (Caridina Japonica), South Asian prawn bee (Caridina Serrata) and shrimps of bumblebees from the genus Neocaridina, Far Eastern freshwater shrimp. Small shrimps, for example, caridine bee, live in captivity 1-1,5, large - 2-4 years.

    Shrimps are sufficient than 7-10 liters per person, they prefer sandy bottom, clean water, feed on a daddy, residues of fish feed, microalgae. Large shrimps can sometimes attack patients or, less often, sleeping at the bottom at night. Healthy active fish they usually do not touch. Attacks on fish and cannibalism are more often observed in stressful situations for shrimp - after transplantation, with a lack of conventional feed, crowded, sharp changes in the conditions of content, in particular, significant temperature differences for 1-2 hours.

    According to some information, the shrimps of the genus Caridina for the development of caviar and larvae need a brasswater water, and neocaridina bumblebees (neocaridina) multiply in fresh water. But the features of the biology of many species of shrimp are still not sufficiently studied, so it is interesting to recommend to schoolchildren to keep them, along with fish, in aquariums and watch them. Themes for observation may be as follows.

    1. Coloring variability: addiction and darkening depending on the strength of lighting, time of day, soil colors from different species. Effect of nutrition on coloring. So, when eating red mosquito larva (moth), the body of shrimp can be reproached, when eating dark worms of the pipes - to darken, with dumping with green algae - green.

    2. Personal monitoring of movements and orientation of shrimp. Walking legs on puments help them walk along the ground and climb vertically on plants. Here they are held also with the help of abdominal floors, which in other cases help shrimp to swim both forward - horizontally and up and down - vertically. The movements of the tail stems - uropodes and the flexion of the end of the abdomen help shrimp not only quickly bounce back to a considerable distance, but also to drive away from themselves other shrimps and fish. Also with harsh bends and extensions of the abdomen, jerks, a mesmering shrimp moves, the legs that have not yet hardened.

    I search for food, the shrimp primarily uses the antennas, claws, weave, all the time feeling the substrate around yourself. Its eyes differ only with relatively large, close objects and are used in the surrounding space overview when swimming and motion and when observing the danger approach. This can be seen when chopped shrimp.

    3. Present the interest of observing the behavior of shrimp. Large macrobrachuums and demoners exhibit elements of territoriality, hold more often in one corner of the aquarium, they try not to let there other shrimps and fish. But we did not observe the fight among the shrimps - they, exposing the revealed claws, quickly spread to the sides at the meeting. Males who compete for female behave in a similar way. Males guard females with molting and mating.

    4. The experiments on feeding shrimps, the choice of food objects, on the influence of temperature on the growth and development of shrimps, the frequency of the line is noted. Shrimps quickly begin to recognize the place where feed constantly appears, and try to stay nearby all the time. So they have a conditional reflex in place and feeding time. This indicates a certain development and complexity of the nervous system of shrimp: they have more plastic behavior than the spine-shaped and a number of insects that almost do not form conditional reflexes.

    It is worth paying attention to the structure of the discarded shells - Eczuviev. When molting in shrimps, damaged or previously lost limbs are growing, the process of their regeneration occurs. This is especially well noticeable among young, since they are more likely to die.

    5. The reproduction of shrimps is a special direction of observations. Interesting features of female care for eggs, changing their color as ripening. Females can regularly postpone and non-advocated eggs, which are then gradually losing. You can trace the effect of temperature and salinity of water on the development of eggs. Finally, a complex process of the development of shrimp larvae is very interesting. If a tens of young shrimps can be raised in the aquarium - this is already a great success. Feed the larvae can be sprayed in water with particles of dry milk, yeast, boiled egg yolk, grilled grain ...

    Many aquarists prefer to contain not only fish, but also other water inhabitants in the aquarium. For example, it is now fashionable to start aquarium shrimp. They are not very capricious in the content, and watching them very nice. After all, aquarium arthropods are very different from their marine fellow. Aquarium shrimps can be bright and active. But the owner of the room reservoir needs to know the features of the content and dilution.

    Description of aquarium shrimp

    Aquarium shrimp is an omnivorous crustacean, distinguished by a high level of endurance. In a natural medium, shrimps live in almost all reservoirs (freshwater and salty). Motherland of different shrimps are the warm water of Panama, Japan, Venezuela, etc. As a rule, most of the individuals from Asia.

    Most aquarium shrimps come from Asian reservoirs

    Small crustaceans have a small body consisting of several segments. Each of them has a couple of limbs. In total, shrimp 5 pairs of feet that allow you to extract food and move quickly. And also in aquarium shrimp there is a massive tail. It allows you to make jump-shaking movements, for example, in case of danger. The first 3 segments of the body are covered with a shell and fascinated with their heads. This allows shrimps to survive even in the company with predators.

    The rice apparatus in the shrimp of complex shape. It consists of 3 jaws and a marine chain (the first 3 pairs of limbs). Weavers help other limbs to move, as well as capture and hold food. Despite the fact that aquarium shrimp does not have large sizes (up to 8 cm), they have excellent smell and touch. Long mustache, similar to the antennas, capture odors and the rustles of the future eating. And the shrimps are rotating eyes. This allows you to quickly detect food and hide from the enemy.

    In the shrimp females there are abdominal pleopodes (abdominal paws), they are needed for sailing and having to wear caviar. And in males, the first pair of these legs was reborn into the breeding organ.

    Due to its difficult, the rhine shrimp calves is influenced by endurance

    Varieties

    There are many species of shrimp, but Russian aquarists loved a little more than a dozen species. It is important to determine the choice of shrimps even before their acquisition. After all, despite the unpretentiousness and survival, representatives of different species require special content. So you can buy small shrimps into a small aquarium, and then they will become too big and the aquarium will have to change.

    The most popular representatives:

    1. Red crystal. White shrimp with red wide stripes. Harvester in the content (the water temperature should be 26 degrees), but it eats little. It has weak health due to intraspecific crossing.
    2. Red Cherry (Cherry) is the most popular appearance of shrimp with a bright red body. Unpretentious in content, easily multiply, can live in large groups (males are very smaller than females - 2 and 4.5 cm accordingly).
    3. Amano - light green shrimps with brown spots on the sides. Kills all harmful algae and the rest of the vegetation. Capricious in content, but very peace-loving.
    4. Tiger shrimp grows up to 4 cm. Externally, they are brighter than their tiger relatives, which we see in stores. It is inexpensive, but require a large aquarium (at least 50 liters).
    5. Yellow shrimp is unpretentious in content, but you need to follow the purity of water. Easily breed (up to 30 children 1 time).
    6. Blue Dream is a bright shrimp of a small size (up to 3 cm). With proper content, it is rarely ill, easily multiplied. Life expectancy - up to 3 years.
    7. Black Neokeard (black diamond) - a beautiful shrimp in several shades of black. It is very rare, although inexpensive.
    8. Transparent shrimp (other names are glass, ghost, indian). Live only 1.5 years, but grow up to 4 cm. Help to contain aquarium clean, but survive only in the company with small fish.

    Photo Gallery: Aquarium shrimps of different species

    Shrimp Amano almost transparent caller with small brown dots, but nevertheless, these shrimps were very loved to aquariumists Several types of shrimps of different colors will decorate any aquarium Green shrimp looks very beautiful only on a contrast background (merged with algae) The brightest aquarium shrimps - red (red cherry and red caridin-cardinal) Red Crystal is a bright shrimp, which is recommended to start inexperienced aquaries. In young age, glass shrimp is almost not visible in water Rare for Russia Type of shrimp - Blue Tiger Tiger shrimps can be very bright Black shrimps originated from blue, they often have a rejection of the color, so they find them in the pet store

    If you are confused and do not know what kind of shrimp you like more, consult a pet store seller. A knowledgeable specialist will tell the features of those species that are on sale. Many owners of aquariums choose fish and shrimp at a price and appearance. Tell the seller, what volume is your aquarium, what fish there are already living there, see what neighbors in shrimps in the pet store.

    When I bought different grains into my aquarium, I first took 1-2 individuals, put them in Quarantine, and then translated into the main aquarium and watched. If for several days of fish, shrimp, etc., behaved actively and cheerfully, I went to the store and docked the number of individuals. If you are not sure about the competence of the seller, you can check the information on your own. By the way, some lovers of water fauna buy rare inhabitants of the aquarium on the first day of delivery (not yet dismantled). However, it is best to wait a few days, because shrimps are brought from Asia, whether they have never been sick.

    Video: Aquarium shrimp

    Pros and cons

    Each aquarist dreams of seeing the bright inhabitants of the aquarium in the crystal clear water. Some create a special backlight to emphasize the beauty and brightness of shrimp. This is a large plus of these crustaceans. Their choice is so great that you can choose small shrimp to become small beautiful fish or large, "meaningful" individuals so that they are not lost among beautiful fish. Moreover, they are rarely high (beautiful, bright crustaceans can be bought even for 50-100 rubles).

    Another plus is convenience in the content. For some kinds of shrimp (for example, a red cherry) care seems to be not needed at all, they can adapt to any conditions. In addition, you can not suffer experiences about the size of the table reservoir. Shrimps can be sealing both in nanoacarium (up to 1 liter) and in a very large capacity (up to 400-500 liters). True, the size of the container will depend on the size of the individual and the number of population. But such little creatures will help the owner support the aquarium in purity. Shrimps love to dig at the bottom, among the leaves of plants and surfaces of stones, respectively, the water will not be murdered due to inspired food and the raid.

    Minus a bright cleaner is that he can become a victim of aggressive fish. Some shrimps (for example, a red cardinal) grow only to 1.5-2 cm, so relatively large fish can consider this livestivity for food. Especially risks being eaten by young shrimp. After all, the thin shell of crustaceans cannot protect against the teeth of fish predators. If you care for shrimps, they will begin to actively come true. Some owners of segmental pets have to carry out the "cleaning" of shrimp rows. Experienced shrimp connoisseurs are selected those with letters (aboss), and give them to pet stores or distribute familiar. Bright and beautiful individuals will remain in a spacious aquarium.

    The main plus aquarium shrimp - color variety

    As mentioned above, shrimps are not particularly capricious to the volume of their reservoir. However, the activity of the aquarium depends on the activity of fish and their reproduction. Some aquarists calculate the permissible number of shrimps as follows: 1 shrimp is needed 1 liter of water. But it is important to consider the size of the inhabitants of the capacity. For example, macrobrachiums grow up to 8 cm, which means they need more water (up to 4 l per person).

    The water temperature may vary from 20 to 30 degrees. This mode is suitable for all shrimps. But you need to remember that at temperatures below 18 degrees, the shrimp becomes a low-liner (almost sleeping). And vice versa than warmer water, the more active and more fun becomes shrimp. Aquarium pets do not tolerate sharp temperature surges. Even if you translate the aquarium to another seasonal mode, then you need to lower / lift the temperature gradually. For this, a special heating device can be useful. And you can also need filters and aerators (but it is optional).

    Once a week you can replace part of the water (at least 1/3). If it is not possible to purchase or deliver special purified water, you can filter ordinary tap water. My father poured ordinary water from under the tap in the aquarium with snails, and a couple of days, it shouted this water into a container with fish. It was important that both aquarium stood in the same room (so the water temperature became ideal).

    The activity of shrimp depends on the water temperature in the aquarium

    Aquarium in which shrimp will live, you need to plant a lot of different plants. Typically, such containers are planting a rogue, Yavansky moss, writing, cladorphor, etc. Bright pets will eat particles of leaves, besides, in thick grass it is easier to hide in case of danger. For better growth of plants, light may be required, at least as such shrimps it is not needed.

    Periodically, you need to check the water parameters. It should be rigid, as shrimps can be lifted, and instead of the dropped shell they will need to be prompted (minerals for this usually draw exactly from rigid water). However, in water should not contain chlorine (no shrimp it). And also need to minimize the amount of copper. This metal can cause the death of your handsome. And adult shrimps, and their larvae can die.

    And also need to comply with simple rules on the surrounding conditions. The room in which the aquarium stands should not be too noisy. Next to the aquarium should not be vibrating technology (like a washing machine or microwave). It is unacceptable to use air fresheners, insecticide aerosols and other harmful sprays near the container. Any poisons can get into the water and poison small crustaceans.

    The more put in the shrimp aquarium of plants, the better

    Than feed

    Shrimps eat everything they will be offered. It can be a feed that remained after the fish (moth, Dafnia, Cyclops, etc.) or special food for shrimp, which is sold in any pet store. And if after the fish they will not remain anything, then the cleaners will go along algae particles (there are many in the ground and on the surfaces of the leaves).

    If there are no fish in the aquarium with shrimps, then the feed will have to buy specially intended for crustaceans. Although many aquarium owners for shrimp buy food designed for fish. However, it is important to understand that special feed is more useful, because it has all the minerals needed for shrimp. I bought special meals in the form of flakes with my shrimp. It is believed that in such a food contained vitamins, useful for the color and quality of the shell.

    Also, shrimps can be picked up with vegetables (cucumber, spinach, etc.). Some give garlic shrimps, and there are even such owners of the aquariums that they feed the shrimp with pasta, but it is not very good, since from flour water in the aquarium can be poisoned and score. It is important not to overflow your aquatic pets, from a large number of affordable shrimp food will be lazy and will not clean the aquarium. Recommended feeding frequency - 2-3 times a week. Hungry, these beauties will not definitely remain.

    Video: Nutrition Shrimps

    Diseases of shrimp

    The body of the suvuala is a "bell" on a long leg

    Another risk is a fungal disease. Shrimp can "pick up" the fungus even in aquarium with relatively clean water. The fact is that the fungus can be in aquarium water for a very long time, without showing himself. With a small change in water parameters (for example, a decrease in temperature), the fungus is activated, and whites can appear on the body of shrimp. The disease that appeared sucks from the sore of the individual nutrients and poisoned the body to toxins. Larms of crustaceans die almost immediately, and to treat adult shrimps in this case does not make sense.

    If the larvae coils and died, the aquarium should be cleaned from the corpses, healthy inhabitants to plant, and then treat the capacity of 0.1% solution of chlorine lime (or white). For treatment, it is possible to use Treflan. It is burying into a hopper with infected shrimps at a concentration of 0.00002%. After 24 hours, water should be replaced by 1/3. However, such treatment is ineffective, so it is rather possible to be called prevention.

    you can treat shrimps only in the subsidence, and the baths with salt are best done in a separate dish (for example, in a bowl)

    And also shrimp can get infectious diseases. Often shrimps are infected with ichthyophthyriosis. Recognize such a parable is simply - on white grades on the body of water pets. This disease is caused by the simplest (ichthyophortour), they may be hurting all the inhabitants of the aquarium, but it is treated. People's name ichthyophortyriosis - manka. For the treatment of shrimp need to do the following:

    • increase the temperature of the water in the aquarium by 2-4 degrees, strengthen aeration;
    • if the disease is detected at the initial stage (1-2 points), tripaflavin will help (it is important to follow the instructions on the package);
    • in advanced cases, it is necessary to use stronger preparations: tetra Contluel, Kostapur, etc.;
    • in case of emergency, it is possible to apply Furazolidon (1 tablet 50 mg per 15 liters of water), but this drug is destroyed by microflora.

    And still shrimps are subject to different types of viruses, the action of which is not fully studied. Therefore, treatment has not yet been found. If your shrimp is sick, and you could not determine the sick, it's urgently to sit down, change the water in the main aquarium, and then go to the veterinarian or in the pet shop. Here without a council specialist can not do.

    Compatible with fish

    So that shrimps please the owner with their bright appearance and active behavior, they need to correctly pick up neighbors

    Peace-loving shrimp behave very modestly even in a large aquarium. This is due to the fact that the crustacean animal is afraid to be eaten. Therefore, the neighbors for the bright inhabitants of the aquarium need to choose the same peace-loving. Ideal shrimp neighbors will be fish and other lifespics of small sizes:

    • neons, Guppies or Danio;
    • micropicilla, Barbus Grazilis and Paratoticique - relatively good neighborhood;
    • snails (ampulora, helen);
    • micro-collection;
    • siamese algae;
    • anzitruses, Ottencyclusa, Soma-Prilipeli (these catches simply ignore shrimps);
    • middle Mares, trotters, corridors, etc. - only under the right conditions of detention.

    Small fish (Guppies, Danio, Neons, etc.) will not attack shrimps, but more active individuals can also lose weight. For example, swords or corridors can attack a shrimp if the aquarium is too small, and pets have to fight for the territory. In addition, the owner needs to prevent provocations in the form of joint feeding. Food for shrimp is better to roll in the corner of the aquarium, where the most plants are located (let the food fall into the thick of algae). Shrimps will get food, but the fish will not get there.

    Photo Gallery: Good Neighbors for Aquarium Shrimps

    Guppie gets around in any aquarium and with any neighbors The most popular and affordable type of Danio is Roerio Micrasochers are perfectly seated with shrimps, and with any other love Neon is a little luminous fish with mining character. Siamese can not boast of bright appearance, but they are the same cleaners as shrimp

    When a shrimp lived in my aquarium, its only neighbors were small multicolored guppies. The shrimp was constantly engaged in some kind of crumbs at the bottom, and the Guppy flooded in their business, noticing only each other. One shrimp cannot multiply, so I did not bother her. But if there are several shrimps, they need to disembark during spawning, and then the guppie with fear can swallow baby. However, such a feature is typical for all vivaging fish.

    Unwanted neighbors for aquarium crustaceans:

    • cichlids, Goltsy;
    • barbusa;
    • scalari;
    • goldfish;
    • gums;
    • aggressive types of catches and so on.

    In addition, it is necessary to take into account the varieties of shrimp. Sometimes a little harmless fish becomes a more useful neighbor than another shrimp. For example, blue shrimps should not be kept in one aquarium with other crustaceans. The fact is that the bright color of the pet can "leave" if it is uncontrolled to cross it with a larger shrimp. But if the owner of the aquarium has time to remove pale arthropods in time, there is nothing to fear.

    Breeding

    Breed shrimps is quite possible and without special skills

    Dilute shrimp is easy. The main condition is the presence of both sexes. Many aquarists simply watch the reproduction process, without helping their pets. For successful selection of crustaceans, a separate aquarium will be required, where the pregnant shrimp will be rejected.

    How to distinguish a female from male

    Sexual differences can be found only in adult individuals. To understand where the male, and where the female, you need to pay attention to 4 signs:

    1. Body sizes.
    2. Color of individuals.
    3. Behavior.
    4. The presence of "saddle".

    Shrimp males are always smaller than females. For example, cherry shrimps can grow to 1.5 cm, and their males - up to 1-1.3 cm. Even if your modest cleaners have not grown to a record size (as part of its type), then the boys from girls are still possible. Females and larger, and brighter. Most boys are painted in more pale tones, sometimes the male's body is almost colorless.

    Two large shrimps on the right and 1 in the center are females, and small and almost transparent are males

    If shrimps in different ages live in one aquarium, then the sizes will not say anything. Then you can pay attention to the behavior of individuals. Small, but the odor males always try to create "violent activities." It is always interesting for them and in everything you need to dig. But females are calmer, they are slowly moving in their possessions, only occasionally taking part in any general affairs.

    The most faithful sign of the differences in females is the presence of the so-called "saddle". This is a white education on the back of an animal (in the place where the abdomen goes into the chest). Usually it can be seen through the shell. The saddle is the ovaries. It is here that Ikrinka ripen, so there are no such a saddle in the males.

    The reproduction of shrimp

    Females are hatching the caviar under the shell, so "saddle" is formed. After fertilization of the eggs move under the tail, there are still 3-4 weeks. At this time, the female looks after Ikrinkami, removes them, constantly smoking. Closer to childbirth (about a month after fertilization) in the iconic appear eyes. They can be seen right in the belly of a pregnant female. Shrimp will give birth to 15-30 fry. They will be a reduced copy of their manufacturer (about 2 mm). Newborn shrimps are first not visible (3-4 days), because they are small, transparent and move along the walls and leaves.

    Fir shrimps are born already recognizable: they have eyes, mustache and tail

    Little shrimps are not bad hiding. Neons will not eate them. Danio can be causing a bit, but they will not be alleged too.

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    Aquarium shrimps grow and live and live

    All shrimps grow differently, it depends on the variety. To make Malek grew up in a beautiful, bright shrimp may be required from 3 months to 1 year. However, many shrimps, even become adults, continue to grow. To fit in a dense shell, excellent creating is required to periodically change its chitinous shell. Link takes about once a month. This is a very interesting process, before resetting the old sheard, the shrimp itchs about the stones. Even those individuals that have already grown to the maximum size are linked. This is necessary for several reasons:

    The average lifespan of shrimp is from 2.5 to 6 years. But it's not just how much a particular variety has a particular variety. The temperature of the water affects the length of life. For example, at high temperatures (above 26 degrees), animals are faster (such individuals do not live more than 3 years). Also, long live and those who live in cold water (15 degrees and below). Females live longer males.

    Aquarium shrimp is a small crustacean arthropod. Such shrimps can decorate any aquarium, because they are bright and spectacular, besides, it is easy to care for them. The main thing is to maintain water parameters and provide shrimps good neighborhood with non-aggressive fish.

    Sea delicacy - shrimp. One of the most valuable products that the sea gives us. About shrimp except do not write OD. They contain a lot of vitamins and beneficial substances, support the normal hormonal background, promote normal growth and development, increase immunity. They are used in dietology and even in the treatment of cancer.

    Where do you live?

    The denit of crustaceans live almost in the seas of the whole world, and some have mastered and fresh water. The dimensions of some adult shrimps reach three centimeters, but there are those that reach seven centimeters.

    A large number of shrimp inhabit the shores of Japan, China, India, Southeast Asia. They are warm-blooded and cold-blooded, the first individuals are always big sizes and catch them in the waters of Thailand, Brazil, China. Cold-blood shrimps are smaller in size, live in the northern seas, it is believed that they are tastier warm-blooded.

    The most convenient place for breeding the children - Pacific OceanHere they have been created all the conditions for life, so Somalia Islands, Latin America, Brazil, Ecuador are famous for large and tasty shrimps.

    Here is deep-water mining and it is produced on an industrial scale. Here, extraction passes immediately heat treatment and freezing, it is believed that the quality of these marine animals is higher.

    Belgium is famous for the old way to catch crustaceans. They attract tourists with networks, baskets and with horses.

    And in Russia, shrimps can be caught in the Far East, here the shores are pleased with almost hundreds of shrimps. Two species live in the Black Sea, one lives on the sandy ground, at the bottom, where the small pebbles, the second on the stony areas, from the rocky shores.

    One of the most delicious is a shrimp caught in the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov. The Baltic Sea, the North, the Water of Transcaucasia and even the Amur River are rich in this clean protein, which is small in size, but tasty.

    It is necessary to catch a shrimp in a night or evening, you can put a trap in advance so that in the morning it would be possible to collect "harvest". The habitat of these crustaceans is at a depth of six hundred centimeters to one and a half meters, where a large cluster of algae, so that she could hide from the danger.

    Be sure to have information about the lowers and tides of your reservoir. The most convenient time fishing is a squeeze, the clock is evening or night.

    "Handy" means for catching shrimp

    Catching shrimps in different ways. Most often used trawl or.

    Metal semicircle, you can rectangle made most often from aluminum, to which a 3 or 4-meter bag with small cells is attached, like a fish grid, is called a trawl.

    There are two types of trawls - multiple and bottom. 4 long ropes are tied to trawl, for which you need to pull so that this device moves for you along the bottom of the reservoir.

    Sacha must have a long, durable handle and a bag with a very fine cell, if cells are not small, then shrimps will simply slide out of the cuck. The cuckoo must be quite large diameter.

    And you can make a trap for catching shrimp. To do this, take a small grid and sew it in the form of a pipe, a piece of galvanized wire to skip the inside of the kapron tube. Since she is in the form of a spiral, she will hold rings in a trap.

    It will be enough for two or three turns inside and one outside. The first and last ring is fixed, and it turns out a smooth circle. Now you can sew a small pipe to another edge of a wide pipe, and the edges of a wide pipe must be attached to the extreme rings.

    Even for catching this delicacy, a lantern is required, because any small mollusk in the dark tends to light.

    How to increase fish catch?

    For 7 years of active hobby fishing, dozens of ways have been found to improve Klevel. I will give the most effective:

    1. Activator Klev. This pheromone additive is stronger than all lubricates fish in cold and warm water. Discussion of the Activator Kleva "Hungry Fish".
    2. Raising Tackle sensitivity. Read the appropriate guidelines for the specific type of gear.
    3. Bait based on pheromonov.

    Rules of catching mollusk

     Islanderk - a place where shrimp on a horse

    The trawl catch shrimps either in the coastal zone, or on a deserted coast, in places where there are many algae. True trawl against the flow, being in the belt in the reservoir. When changing the flow, trawl move so that he again stood against the current. In this way, you can catch a lot of shrimp in a short time.

    Sachka is easier, you need to enter the water, bypass all the stones and drive a sacc of around them. You can catch so shrimps, but not so much. But if with the same saccmother to walk along the shore in the evening or night, and even with a flashlight, then the result will delight the night hunter.

    And homemade traps are binding among themselves and ejected in the reservoir.

    An interesting way to catch in Black Sea Fishermen.

    They catch shrimps in two ways:

    1. One, "old, like a world" with a hermetic lantern, which works on LEDs.
    2. Another original - in the morning, in the morning, the high rocky shores from the boat release a cuckoo with small pieces with a piece of missing meat. Literally after half an hour, they have a wonderful catch.

    Memo about catching the tenty crustacean


    You can catch a mollusk from any, convenient to you place - from the boat, from the pier, from the shore, the main condition so that the radius of your sacca is equal to the depth of the place where you are fishing. Give the time grid to fall on the bottom and start pulling it with the rope.

    When pulling the grid, the rope will delay, grabbing shrimps with it. Pull it and keep in mind that in addition to shrimp you will find there still some seas gifts in the form of dirt, sand and sludge.

    Behind the lack of trawl, chuck or grid, you can use the elementary gauze, which is sold in the pharmacy. Fold it into several layers, tweak some cargo on two end, lower the bottom, next to the shore. Go parallel to the shore and pull your new "network" of several tens of meters. Then take it out and enjoy the catch.

    Season for catching the tenty

    But it is impossible to hunt shrimp year-round, during the spawning period, it is prohibited on them. This period from June 1 to August 31.

    In some places, shrimp is forbidden to catch the trawl, but can be trapped. Sakhalin fishermen could catch a shrimp in the summer without limitation.

    In the Black Sea, it was forbidden to catch the mollusk, or rather, one person can catch no more than five kilograms. Also, the government banned shrimp on the Crimean Peninsula. East-Chernomorsk security officers held daily raids on the coast shores.

    In the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov until the beginning of August for shrimp, you could get penalties. In the Sea of \u200b\u200bAzov, one person, when fishing crustaceans, is allowed to use a chick, a diameter of no more than seventy centimeters and you can catch a no more than one kilogram.

    Shrimps - Hobbies, Delicates and Harm


    Whatever the amateur you or a professional, catching mollusks delivers unforgettable impressions. Wonderful weather, warm water, sun and your favorite hobby, what could be better?

    And if you still have in mind what you can build from this living area, what dishes to prepare and what benefit to bring the body. It is possible to strengthen the cardiovascular system, normalize the central nervous system, reduce blood coagulation. The daily rate of iodine man will receive, eating only fifty grams of shrimp.

    But people with elevated cholesterol in the blood should be abandoned from this delicacy, since they themselves contain cholesterol, salts of heavy metals, toxic substances.