Two shrimp in one!!

Hey kids,

I know most of you haven't seen Grandpa's fishtank yet, but this is a kind of fun thing, so I wanted to tell you about it right now.

First, here are the things that live in Grandpa's tank:

• A Yellowtail Damsel fish
• A Skunk Cleaner Shrimp
• 6 Hermit Crabs
• 3 Turbo Snails
• 2 Tiny snails (they live on the rock, and we don't see them very often, so we're not sure what kind they are yet)
• 2 Green Chromis
• 2 Clownfish (Nemo fish)
• And a Flame Angel fish

None of them have names yet, except the Angel fish. I'll tell you more about the others later, but today, I wanted to tell you about the shrimp.

You can tell why he's called a Skunk Shrimp, can't you? He has a big white stripe down his back, just like a skunk.

This morning, when I looked in the tank, I saw TWO shrimp! What happened?

I looked again, and realized that the shrimp had shed his skin, called an exo-skeleton, and was growing a new one. You can see the kind of clear exo-skeleton on the right, and the real shrimp on the left.

When you grow, your skins grows with you. But when a shrimp grows, he sheds his skin and builds a new, bigger one! Cool, huh?

  

So here's my question for you: What do you think we should name the shrimp?
If you click on the pencil below, you can type your answer! :)

Love,
Gramma

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