Venus Flower Basket Shrimp. But it is instead a remarkable sea sponge found in the deepest parts of the ocean. The shrimp breed, and when their offspring are tiny, they escape to find a new venus' flower basket of their own.

But it is instead a remarkable sea sponge found in the deepest parts of the ocean. Yep, turns out i’m just an old romantic at heart. This is a sea creature, a sponge of sorts, that grows a glass skeleton.

The most famous glass sponge is a species of euplectella, known as the “venus flower basket,” which builds its skeleton in a way that entraps a certain species of crustacean inside for life.

The love story of venus' flower basket. In traditional asian cultures, this particular sponge (in a dead, dry state) was given as a wedding gift because the sponge symbiotically houses two small shrimp, a male and a female, who live out their lives inside the sponge. Venus’ flower basket are a group of sponges inhabiting the deep sea. Venus’s flower basket, any of several sponges of the genus euplectella, especially e.