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Shrimp Gulag
Do not recommend, it is pretty when new but as mentioned this is like a concentration camp for these shrimps. You can tell the shrimp are having a rough time, when the sphere is new, the shrimp are full of energy but over the months they stop swimming and die one by one. And when one shrimp dies, the other shrimp start eating the dead one. These are not cheap and mine lasted 15 months. I suspect the sphere and water volume to number of shrimps ratio is basically "tuned" so the shrimps are perpetually on the edge of starvation, which is why they don't reproduce and resort to cannibalism. It is like those early antarctic expeditions where the explorers don't bring enough supplies and just shoot and eat their own sled dogs one by one to survive.
