Mississippi grass shrimp<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We collected a few of these shrimp, all berried females, on a darter-collecting trip on 2026-06-13 at Square Lake<\/a> in Washington County, MN. Square lake is weird, much cooler and clearer than neighboring lakes and with unusual fauna; I have definitely not seen them in any other waterway in Minnesota, and iNaturalist shows them in only a few scattered spots in the far east of the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI took one of them home and kept it in a one-gallon box in a cool room with a variety of water fleas for food. The eggs hatched on July 2nd, about 20 days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\nUnfortunately I don’t have photos of the Palaemonetes paludosus<\/em> I raised years ago, but to my best recollection the paludosus larvae were darker, less developed, and tended to dangle at the surface of the water like a mosquito larva. These kadiakensis<\/em> larvae are transparent, well-developed, and tend to stick close to the bottom. They are not full minature versions of their parents — they have swimming legs rather than walking legs — but their body shape is similar to that of the adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI’m moving the adult out of the box and keeping the larvae in the water where they hatched. I will feed them sifted moina and freshwater rotifers, at least for starters. There’s a bit of riccia and sunshine which should help with water quality a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi grass shrimp We collected a few of these shrimp, all berried females, on a darter-collecting trip on 2026-06-13 at Square Lake in Washington County, MN. Square lake is weird, much cooler and clearer than neighboring lakes and with unusual … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions\/2926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I took one of them home and kept it in a one-gallon box in a cool room with a variety of water fleas for food. The eggs hatched on July 2nd, about 20 days later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unfortunately I don’t have photos of the Palaemonetes paludosus<\/em> I raised years ago, but to my best recollection the paludosus larvae were darker, less developed, and tended to dangle at the surface of the water like a mosquito larva. These kadiakensis<\/em> larvae are transparent, well-developed, and tend to stick close to the bottom. They are not full minature versions of their parents — they have swimming legs rather than walking legs — but their body shape is similar to that of the adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\nI’m moving the adult out of the box and keeping the larvae in the water where they hatched. I will feed them sifted moina and freshwater rotifers, at least for starters. There’s a bit of riccia and sunshine which should help with water quality a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mississippi grass shrimp We collected a few of these shrimp, all berried females, on a darter-collecting trip on 2026-06-13 at Square Lake in Washington County, MN. Square lake is weird, much cooler and clearer than neighboring lakes and with unusual … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions\/2926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I’m moving the adult out of the box and keeping the larvae in the water where they hatched. I will feed them sifted moina and freshwater rotifers, at least for starters. There’s a bit of riccia and sunshine which should help with water quality a bit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mississippi grass shrimp We collected a few of these shrimp, all berried females, on a darter-collecting trip on 2026-06-13 at Square Lake in Washington County, MN. Square lake is weird, much cooler and clearer than neighboring lakes and with unusual … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2480,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2918","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2926,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2918\/revisions\/2926"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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