shrimp are dumb

[Jadenlea]

Seriously.   Ive watched them tried to breed now so many times and it always takes them hours to find the female.  

 

Tonight I thought Id help out.  I caught the female and put her in a breeder box and picked my 3 favorite TB males (from shrimpscales)  then watched for an hour.   

 

They still couldnt find/catch her!!!

 

I gave it a few hours and had to put them back in the tank. I was afraid the breeder box water would get to cold with no heater in this NH weather.  I wasn't willing to risk my very favorite RW  male.

 

Dumb shrimp!

[Jadenlea]

on a happy note..... spring must be coming and the shrimp must be coming out of the winter doldrums.  This is my third berry this week. 

[Wygglz]

Congratulations!

[Soothing Shrimp]

Well, technically shrimp have no brains, just a nerve cluster for instinct.

So yep. No smarts. Heh

[Lyana]

Lol! I put my neos in a breeder box once, it took about an hour for them to breed.

[zodiac]

Well, technically shrimp have no brains, just a nerve cluster for instinct.

So yep. No smarts. Heh

humans have brains...many have no smarts. 

some have a cluster of something. 

 

don't they need low to no light for a higher chance to do the deed?

when lights on,i see them swimming all over and that's it.

[Wygglz]

Well, technically shrimp have no brains, just a nerve cluster for instinct.

So yep. No smarts. Heh

Ok Soothing, no saying that around my tanks. I spend all day working on self esteem issues, I don't want my inverts to have issues!

[eggznfinz]

I watched a male slam into a female. He hit her so hard I thought she was dead. She didn't move for a few minutes but then swam off. Is it possible that they don't start off dumb? Maybe they are just suffering from CTE.

[Jadenlea]

LOL Wyggles and Shrimp Logic.  You might be right.