Pregnant Opae'ula Shrimp 3/26/09

I've had this shrimp ecosystem on my desk since 2002 and they have started to repopulate with babies. My friend Cindy and I actually counted three pregnant shrimps in my tank today. It's amazing to watch them swim around holding on to all the eggs. We were lucky to capture these very cool shots using Cindy's Panasonic Lumix set to Macro mode. So here are my versions of my very own 'octomoms'...it's so exciting..I think it takes almost a month before the eggs will hatch.
Here's one of the pregnant Opaeula with some babies...
There's some cruddy stuff that's all over the bottom of the tank but somehow, it doesn't seem to affect the Opaeula.