A pixel shrimp aquarium
A tiny tank.
A tiny universe.
Raise a few shrimp, and a glass box
slowly becomes a living world.
01
Every shrimp
is a star.
Look through the microscope and your tank turns into a night sky. Shrimp, food, invisible bacteria, even the chemistry of the water: each one glows with its own light.
02
And every star
is connected.
Shrimp waste becomes ammonia. Bacteria turn it into nitrite, then nitrate. Plants feed on it and release oxygen, and your shrimp breathe it in again. A real nitrogen cycle, running inside your tank.
03
Even when you look away,
it keeps moving.
Water chemistry shifts in real time, and whatever builds up blooms like a nebula. Keep an eye on temperature, pH and oxygen, and the little balance holds.
04
From a well-kept sky,
new shrimp are born.
Color and pattern are passed down. Keep breeding to discover a strain that is yours alone.
Grow your own
tiny universe.
Web · iOS · Android · Free to play
Shrimprium is a free pixel-art shrimp aquarium simulator for the web, iOS and Android. Raise and breed shrimp while plants, microbes and water chemistry, from the nitrogen cycle to pH and dissolved oxygen, keep the tank alive even when you look away.