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*Commensalism: Grass shrimp like to ride on crabs, eating algae off of their backs. Crabs don't need this, but the shrimp get a free ride and a meal.

*Migration: During the winter, grass shrimp move to warmer, deeper waters.

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*During molting Grass shrimp can eat their exoskeleton
*In captivity Grass Shrimp will eat any thing including other Grass Shrimp

*They have the longest life spans of all shrimp, lasting up to a year.
*Grass shrimp are called by many different names including Ghost shrimp, Glass shrimp, Common prawn, and more

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*Palaemonetes pugio, or Grass shrimp are nearly transparent--you can see the food inside of them
*Can grow up to 1.5 inches long and weigh 6 to 12mg
*Their bodies are segemnted, so they are invertibrets.
*They have a horn over their eyes, which makes them more feirce and dangerous to predators.
*They eat algae so they are first level consumers and herbivores
*Grass shrimp are very vulnerable when pregnant and have trouble surviving because of having many predators.

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Why Grass Shrimp are the most important organisms

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Why Grass Shrimp are the most important organisms

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Grass shrimp are very important because they clean the water and control the algae population. They also give food to small fish and they break down debris into food for other organisms.

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If Grass shrimp were removed from the bay

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If Grass shrimp were removed from the bay

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If Grass shrimp were removed from the bay many small fish would die without food because there is no grass shrimp to eat and the algae would block sunlight from plants that the fish would eat as well. Other shrimp couldn't replace the food given by the grass shrimp because grass shrimp are the most common shrimp in the bay. This would affect humans because there will be less fish

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http://www.edc.uri.edu/restoration/html/gallery/invert/grass.htm
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/common_grass_shrimp
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.4319/lo.1980.25.5.0896/pdf