Shrimps new changing room

And so, after less than a week, my cute little pets have found a place they could change. Not sure why but most of them prefers that corner of the tank. I saw one fella molting earlier today but I was too late. When I manage to get the camera, greenie finished molting! Nonetheless, I took a picture of their changing room.I even caught a picture of mama shrimp playing with the eggs in her tummy. It just went up and down her legs. I wonder why she does that.The shrimps are so cute. It is just so awesome watching them eat, fight and dart from one end of the tank to another. Nope, it's not a huge tank...it's a nano tank. I've even put a low chair infront of the tank. It's my viewing gallery :p

Contagion - Bacteria Billboard

This is one of the largest petri dish I've ever come across!!! Pictures Canada teamed up with microbiologists and immunologists from around the world to create a one-of-a-kind bacteria message board located at 409 Queen Street West in an abandoned store-front window. On August 28th, two large Petri dishes were inoculated with live bacteria including penicillin, mold and pigmented bacteria and almost overnight have revealed the true Contagion -- an artistic interpretation of the spread of a virus as depicted in the film. Yucks!!!!!

Passing of a shrimp and new shrimps on board

One of my shrimps passed away today. I don't know why. It could be because I wasn't a good owner. I mean, if my terrapin, hamster and cactus could die on me...why not a shrimp? It's quite discouraging that my shrimp died a day after being in my care. Nonetheless, the more I look at it, the more it reminds me of prawn noodles. Except that this would be a really tiny bowl.So to encourage me and to replace my dead shrimp, my favorite guy gave me 8 more shrimps and they are green...abit translucent too.On top of the new shrimps, he also gave me shrimp food. I tried to give to my pets and they love it. This picture shows them feasting.
They love to share. Look! They are sharing foodLearn something new today. So a shrimp changing clothes is called Molting! I always thought that molting has got something to do with melting. Today's the 2nd day and I've found 2 transparent clothes.

Upon the arrival of the shrimps, I have started to read up on other shrimps. Some links were from that cutesy bro (yah, my favorite guy...the one with the dimples) and some were from my best friend, google! I hope they survived and breed so that I can have a whole tank full of colorful shrimps! I've even got Christmas decorations for the tank :) My pet shrimps are going to celebrate Christmas ^_^

Shrimps have moved in

He delivered the shrimps and their friends to me today!! Now my tank is complete. I was given otto the algae eating fish, bumble bee snail, rili shrimp, cherry shrimp, sakura shrimp and fire red shrimp. 2 of them are preggy so in a week or 2, I will have cute shrimplets in my tank! Thank you 哥哥! I will surely give you the best brother award for giving me such a well-thought and interesting advance pressie :)

Wanted to give them names. Infact, I have got names for 5 shrimps already. But because you outgive the number you told me initially, I couldn't name them anymore. There were too many of them and I can't recognise which is which as some of them were really similar. Just love watching them torpedo from one side of the tank to the other end...and the shocking look on otto's face. So cute!

Durian mooncake

This Black gold 100% durian mooncake from Home' s Favorite is yummy! The durian paste reminded me of the durian puree I once had in Sheraton Towers that got me hooked on to durians. From someone who doesn't enjoy the after taste of durians to turn into a durian lover is a big thing....at least to me. I don't detest it, I simply didn't like the taste. A trip to Sheraton Towers changed my life forever. Oh alright, I was merely trying to be dramatic. It didn't change my life forever. It did, however, changed my views about durians. It's not that disgusting after all :)

The black gold 100% durian mooncake looks horribly ugly on the outside but taste amazingly heavenly. As the old saying goes "do not judge the book by it's cover"...it is true even for food! I repent for stereotyping ugly things.

The plants moved in

That kind soul delivered the plants to my place today despite being sick (so touched...see, I'm easily touched). Interestingly, it came with one mini (3mm) water slug (I think it is a water slug coz it's a slug, and it's in the water) and one mini transparent shrimp smaller than the 3mm slug. I thought they were part of the pressie but unfortunately, they were found to be illegal immigrants (the owner aka that kind soul didn't even know they hitched a ride). Well, I adopted them anyway. Now that I've poured all the contents into my tank, I couldn't find my pet slug and mini shrimp anymore. I hope they are still in the tank!!!

I was told that the shrimps couldn't move in until bacteria has grown coz shrimp eats bacteria and bacteria eats plants....or something like that. So I have to wait again. This is one area I'm not scoring well...the waiting game. I wonder if there is anything that can speed up bacteria growth...hmmm....

New tank

I got a new nano tank today....or should I say yesterday! Thanks to the generosity of a kind soul who probably think that my room has too many fluffy fake animals and needed some live stock to balance up. He said that it would take a few weeks of preparation before the shrimps can move in to stay. Geez....it was like that when I moved into this place. Need some reno and painting and the lot. So I guess shrimps are like human...they need a pretty place to stay in. So for the start, this is how it looks like on day 1.I thought it'd be fun to have someone else join in as well so there goes Elmo...don't worry, he is behind the tank, not inside...so no stuff toys were harmed in the process.I am so looking forward to have a family of shrimps. Please pardon my child-likeness....this is the first time I have shrimps as pets instead of having them as meals. I've even got names for them already....