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Two skunk shrimps (Lysmata amboinensis) having a quicky in my tank :-) Last night, around 1:00am with lights off but ambient light from the room light I noticed a fresh empty exoskeleton of one shrimp and two shrimps hanging out next to it... One is niticable softer than the other - you can tell it by the way how the antennas were moved by the water currents... When I was watching suddenly one shrimp grabbed the soft one hug it belly to belly forming a two-shrimp-cross and hold it so strong that I was afraid the soft one will crack in half... Whole thing lasted maybe 2 full seconds and that was it - they relaxed later with grooming their antennas with their pincers... Like nothing happened a moment ago :-) Looks like I was late for the molting show because soon after that the empty exoskeleton flow with the water current away from the scene. If I watched the tank couple of minutes earlier I would have seen a shrimp molting with my own eyes... Well, I have marine tanks for many years and I had always shrimps there, but I have never seen before them having sex :-) |
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