our crustacean overlord
by @cphaurckker
Liner Notes
about ten years ago, I added a few amano shrimp to my freshwater fish tank. They're neat little algae eaters, and I kind of love them, even if they don't live very long.
I haven't added a shrimp to the tank since then. I've moved to a new house with it. I've had generations of fish grow old and pass on over the last decade.
However, every few months, this shrimp appears out of a clump of java moss. That happened yesterday morning. I'm convinced he'll live forever, and is destined to rule us all.
This is clearly a loud, heavy gothic metal song, as is appropriate for this bad-ass crustacean.
Lyrics
in a plastic baggie filled with water his lordship followed me home transparent exoskeleton gleaming in the filter outflow foam
the signage at the pet store proclaimed him an amano shrimp despite these beginnings humble we are all subject to his whims
Caridina multidentata live three years at most however here a decade later still he reigns, reasons unbeknownst!
Bow. Before. The Immortal Overlord! The shrimp who will live forever! He will survive us all it doesn't matter that he's small we exist, solely at his pleasure!
He has ruled from his throne of taxiphyllum Barbieri grazing on the algae to which he's privy
He disappears for months reappears on his own schedule when I'm convinced that he's expired he appears, graceful and regal
I suspect he was mislabeled a different longer-lived species probably really a dwarf fan shrimp but I still want to believe
Bow. Before. The Immortal Overlord! The shrimp who will live forever! He will survive us all it doesn't matter that he's small we exist, solely at his pleasure!
Comments
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I'd be very interested in how you incorporate Caridina miltidentata into a goth rock tune. I mean it. You must let me know when/if this becomes a demo. I can hear some goth rock tropes as I was reading and I think this is quite fitting for the seemingly eternal crustacean.
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Of course you must believe! Are you sure he isn’t a vampire shrimp?