Our shrimp community is already a couple of years old. The shrimp are thriving, and they look happy in their habitat. They have lots of decoration they can play with. Huge shells we found at the ‘la Laja’ beach, nice stone pillars we found during a track we did in the center of gran canaria. Together with lots of plants and pump with some light. To top it all off there are lots of little plants floating on the top of the aquarium. We found these in the ‘Jardin Canario’.

To sustain a bigger community of shrimp I feed them a little every now and then, but when we leave our home they are perfectly adopted and will survive for months at a time easily. The problem with leaving them for a few months is that there is a lot of water vaporizing, which leaves the tank halve empty/halve full.

We started out with a couple of colored shrimp. Some were blue, some red, and two yellow ones. Over the years the colors have mixed, and it is now like a living genetic experiment. Some shrimp are pitch black, lots are semi transparent, en some are multicolored. The latest generation of shrimp has one very noticeable shrimp. A transparent shrimp, with a white spot on its back, and very red legs. A beautiful shrimp we named ‘Roodpoot’.