The place is not in NCR, its Nashik. I'm in touch with him and we are working on it.Romi wrote: Amol knows a place where fairy shrimp are available in NCR, would you like me to talk to him and ask him if he can help you get some?
Romi, from your description, I think I have seen them in a glacial lake (altitude more than 4000 mtrs above MSL) during one of my treks in Himachal. They were exactly like you mentioned - curved, shrimp-like body, swimming in a little awkward motion and grazing on the stones and rocks underwater. Like you, even I was so intrigued, assuming them to be freshwater shrimps, so I collected some and put them in a water bottle but they had died by the time we reached the base-camp. I could never figure-out why they died because there was not much temperature difference between source and base-camp. But I was definitely amazed as to how this life form could survive at such altitude and inclement weather, considering the lake remains frozen for almost 6 months in a year!!!Romi wrote:I have been looking for Gammarus for some time. I remember a looong time ago, when I was maybe 12 years, and we went to Anantnag in Kashmir (now called Islamaband by some) and were looking into the paved pathways of the ancient mineral spring re-named Chasme-shahi by the Mughals. This beautiful and crystal clear fountain of water sustained an amazingly dense population of gammarus. I put them in bottles, thinking they were shrimp, but was dissappointed to note that they were not swimming straight (curved body looks like it needs to stretch a bit!). If you could find them, we could culture them much more easily than any other crustacean, since they are happy to live on any dying vegetation, including green leafy vegetatbles.