Started Ramshorn/Ghost Shrimp Tank

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Re: Started Ramshorn/Ghost Shrimp Tank

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Well... They do have a mouth in all the ways that we would consider a mouth a mouth. They most certainly don't have a chest. Very basically, they've got a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The mouth (or mandibles or whatever else you want to call it) is located on the head :)
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Re: Started Ramshorn/Ghost Shrimp Tank

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Flutter wrote:Well... They do have a mouth in all the ways that we would consider a mouth a mouth. They most certainly don't have a chest. Very basically, they've got a head, a thorax, and an abdomen. The mouth (or mandibles or whatever else you want to call it) is located on the head :)
lol you sound more grammatically correct. Here is the copy Paste
"Strange Mouths. Unlike fishes with mouths at the front of their faces, ghost shrimps cram food into an opening in what appears to be their chest. From this strange mouth, their food moves up behind their eyes where you can watch it curve back around and down into their stomachs. These food storage areas turn the same color as the food they eat. You can easily see thru their bodies during this process."

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Lol! :ROFL:
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A scavenger isn't really a predator. I can see them eating eggs laid on the substrate and on the leaves but not all of them, and the gell sacls may or may not be to thrir taste as to "protect" the little snails. If the shrimp was after a snail, could that snail have already have died?
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J-P wrote:A scavenger isn't really a predator. I can see them eating eggs laid on the substrate and on the leaves but not all of them, and the gell sacls may or may not be to thrir taste as to "protect" the little snails. If the shrimp was after a snail, could that snail have already have died?
I wasnt implying that it predates snail eggs or snails for that matter. If it runs across them it will eat em. The snail was alive by the way. Check out my other posts on this topic.
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