Shiny Shrimp
By Dylan DiRese
Beginning
Diet
You wouldn’t believe the strange diet of the shrimp. As omnivores shrimp consume plant species but would rather eat tiny fish. If there are no fish around to snack on they will scavenge for dead animals and if they have to they may even eat shrimp. They will also snack on algae and plankton. Even though shrimp is the number one seafood consumed in the U.S. they still have an enormous diet.
Movement
Shrimp move across the bottom of the incredible ocean using three different techniques. There are three extraordinary ways a shrimp moves across the ocean floor. Even though these creatures are very petite they move two to five miles a day. These peculiar creatures will use a set of legs called pereiopods. However these sets of legs are very fragile. Although these set of legs are mostly used for perching. Shrimp have another set of legs that are known as pleopods. These sets of legs are simply just used to swim backwards. They will also use a body part called a tail.
Habitat
Shrimp have their own little habitat that they are comfortable in. These petite creatures may live in oceans, rivers and lakes. Shrimp usually prefer to live in warm waters. They will burrow under the sand, mud, coral, crevices and rocks. They will even live in sponges! They will live in all of the oceans. Shallow or deep. Even though the average shrimp only lives one to two years it will make an amazing habitat that maybe even one of their children will live in.
What I did
My go fish
My Haikus
Two thousand species
Pinkish with a little red
Eats algae and fish
Live in warm waters
Oceans, rivers and lakes
Burrows under sand