Unidentified fairy shrimp

Where are you located? As in where did you find that?

Eubranchipus grubii

I'm located in Reno, Nv I found these guys 45 minutes into the Californian side of the eastern sierra Nevadas headed south past Carson City...all in all about 1.5-2 hours from home...closer to 1.5

Very cool indeed.

Awpong... You are awesome(not being sarcastic, I've been trying to figure this out all summer) how did you know? What do you do that gave you this info/experience?

I've found quite a few different species of fairy shrimp within 2 or so hours from my home, these guys were just so...clean...and had a sweet red tail. Sadly...I've never found any triops...the animal I'm actually looking for when I find fairy shrimp.

Creepy shrimp

i have always grown triops from those little egg packs hahaha ive actually bred them successfully

That is really awesome! How dense was their population?

Not dense at all as far as I could see. There were groups of 10-20 of these guys every 10 square feet of pond I was able to see. I wasn't going in the water and I only looked at a single section of the water...I'm not a big fan of leeches so stepping in wasn't an option.

They looked like slow moving minnows...the swam quite deliberately and in straight lines unlike brine shrimp and some smaller fairy shrimp I've seen.

What do leecches eat if there is nothing around big enough to latch on to?

I found similar shrimps up in a higher altiude pond in Yosemite a few years back. They were 1-1/2" long and metallic green in the sunlight. I was tempted to bring a few back home, but I knew nothing about their care.

Bummer. A local guy around here found a lake to get mysis out of. Our last meeting he gave us each two ziploc bags full, they seem to be very clean too. Really cool find you made though, minus the leeches

Omgsh! I found these guys in a high elevation lake too! I'm glad I didn't see any leeches tho! I can't remember how close it was to Carson City

I always wondered what they were, their swimming pattern is so cool

Oh nvm it was near this lake, a little farther from Reno than I thought

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