Side view of a Cherry Shrimp with a large abdomen…on a sloping piece of dark brown submerged log and scant vegetation visible fore and aft.

Fellow shrimpers out there…is this beauty full of eggs?

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Beady-eyed Neocardinia Shrimp, bright red-orange on aquarium substrate with green foliage above and abandoned snail shell in foreground.

Clear eyes
Full heart
Can’t lose

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A quartet of Cherry Shrimp trying to decide who is band leader…all waving their arms underneath the bandshell of Amazon Sword leaves. The horn section is scattered across the front.

Too many conductors in the band…and the horn section looks to have abandoned their instruments.

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Reddish-orange Cherry Shrimp from upper left extending into the center of frame, and surrounded by strands of green Java Moss

Working the fields of green. The work never stops. Stewardship of the Strands is their strong suit.

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A Cherry Shrimp peers from the opening of a Java Moss covered tunnel, clambering over a decaying snag of wood in a planted aquarium. A second shrimp is visible at the back end of the tunnel.

To the cave…to the cave.
Meet me in the Shrimp Cave!

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Cherry Shrimp working the intersecting stems of an Anubias in a planted aquarium…photo is of an orange shrimp facing the camera, surrounded by radiating stems and distal leaves. Many light colored roots also seen and some fine Java Moss strands.

Crusty Morning…you “feeling” that?

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Gold Tetras suspended above an Amazon Sword in the early morning darkness of a planted aquarium with large lacy Aponogeton leaves and curly onion plant in background

From the wee hours in the #AquaLair …where all is peaceful and calm.

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A juvenile Ottocinclus lounges on a lacy aquatic plant leaf in a planted aquarium.

Nothing to see here. Move along…Move along!

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A lounging Ottocinclus seems to be watching the snail’s work…as the Tetra keeps a watchful eye on the lot of them…in a maze of Amazon Sword plants in a planted aquarium.

What does the #Otto see?
Always spying, seemingly judging…

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A Cherry Shrimp gathers a bit of fish food that escaped the Schoolers…atop a decaying Amazon Sword leaf.

A Cherry Shrimp gathers food from atop a bed of Java Moss.

Gather ye foodstuffs while ye may
Tomorrow’s not granted
And food is at hand today

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Closeup of two Aponogeton Madagascarensis (Madagascar Lace) leaves… showing fine open mesh lattice structure.

There is beauty in the intricacies of life…if only we slow our gaze enough to see them.

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A spry Cherry Shrimp (neocardinia) greets the new day by working on a log.

Crusty’s an early riser…out of the morning fog and into the log to mine for bits and tidbits.

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A Cherry Shrimp works the overhead Java Moss from its base

Mining the Roof Wall for biofilm nuggets

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Two Cherry Shrimp working the films in the crevices on an old wood stump in an aquarium. Anubias leaves in foreground with a scattering of Java Moss across the brown wood surface.

Wood workers.

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Bright red shrimp and a couple snails work the large leaf for biofilms and algae, as a bright orange guppy cruises overhead.

#Today the Conductor oversees the Snail Team’s work…as a bright orange guppy gildes obliviously by.
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