[Pavel Chaloupka]

Well you can clearly see which tank is housing shrimps. I dont know who of the shrimp people invented that idea that shrimps consume their exuviae. What I have been doing for last couple days is finding these all over the tank 😀 it seems like they never even touch them and it feels like all the ten shrimps in the tank are moulting like very other day. I’m starting to worry abou some shrimpzilla that could show up in couple weeks. Def it seems that oak and beech leaves contain enough nutrients for them to grow. The tank does not seem much cleaner but thats prolly just not enough shrimps. They seem to be very good in self defence as today I cought a group of 6 paros encircling a shrimp and trying to at least bite of a leg but shrimp managed to escape without much problems. Its amazing how fast they swim when they need. My shrimps are def to young to cary any eggs yet, so paros were interested in shrimp itself for sure. Thats not the first time I saw them trying to hunt shrimps even though they def do not suffer of any hunger. It seems like when I started to feed with Chaoborus larvae (not sure how they are called in English, glass worm?)that are about 1 cm long paros have more confidence to attack the shrimps. They tried couple times after the shrimps were released to the tank and but have stopped very quickly but now they are attacking them again. I always saw a single fish hunting a shrimp, but today was the first time I observed such a wolf strategy.