March 8, 2005
Invertebrate intelligence...
Sometimes you gotta wonder if animals are smarter than we usually give them credit for. Anyway, after a few days of hanging out on the hornwort, I guess my bamboo shrimp wasn't getting enough nutrition cause it made its way back up into the filter casing again. This time however, he was sitting ON the filter itself, right where the water flows out and over from the intake. I've already shooed him back into the tank twice with the use of chopsticks and nets but he still goes up there when I'm not looking. The last time I even took the filter out cause I thought it might be filtering out all the nutrients that the shrimp is looking for before it could get to the shrimp. But that only helped out the shrimp more cause he just sits in the spot vacated by the filter now. I'm going to have to find some mesh for the filter outtake eventually. But at least he doesn't seem to be as skittish anymore when I come to push him back into the tank. Doesn't jump like crazy when I push him around with the chopstick.
Posted by ronin at March 8, 2005 10:55 AM