How to Tell if Your Shrimp is Pregnant...

...if I'm not wrong. I'm not a biologist, neither am I very interested in it - or shrimps for that matter. However as per Starusticity's request, THIS is how you tell if a shrimp is pregnant - in this case, Crystal Red Shrimps, the ones that my airen is crazy over and owns. Shrimps as what my airen suggested are like human beings, biologically. The female ones have tummies - I was very insulted by this. I would prefer to say that we have a curlier figure, therefore prettier and sexier. The below picture on the right depicts a female pregnant shrimp in the midst of aqua-rium vegetation, note the protruded tummy filled with black spots. The black spots - pardon me - are the eggs. The one on the left of coz is the boring male. They are staring at each other right now but don't ask me how or when they'll mate. They usually do it when we're not looking, at least when airen is not looking - he is constantly staring at the tank, tracking their progress – though never actually seeing anything. By the way, airen got to know of a certain shrimp expert with suspicious inclination towards the wayward side, in other words, gay. He is constantly calling, messaging airen. The first words from him usually are "How's your shrimps? Given birth yet?" - a few times a day. Now that they have a few more topics to chat about, given the current status of 2 female shrimps, I cannot imagine how many more times the guy’ll initiate the communication, per day. *shudders*