my new shrimp
- Arny
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my new shrimp
Hey guys im getting these shrimp for my planted tank. I never new you could get diffrent coloured cherry shrimp till I saw these. Ive been told they will interbreed so I should get some intresting babies
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Re: my new shrimp
Nice! When I go to our local cichlid swap meet, there is a long table with about 30 different colorful shrimp species. Not cheap though!
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Re: my new shrimp
These were £3.99 each, apart from the blue tiger which was £7.99. Got 10% off the total price including delivery to which was a result. The whole lot came to £30.Pufferpunk wrote:Nice! When I go to our local cichlid swap meet, there is a long table with about 30 different colorful shrimp species. Not cheap though!
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I know nothing about British $$.
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Re: my new shrimp
Works out to about:-Pufferpunk wrote:I know nothing about British $$.
$6.50 each
$49 total including postage
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That's way cheaper than the ones I saw. I'll have to take pics next time I go.
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Cool yeah if you could do that itd be great. Id love to see themPufferpunk wrote:That's way cheaper than the ones I saw. I'll have to take pics next time I go.
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Re: my new shrimp
They can get allsorts at maidenhead aquatics usually around £5 each. That's a good score though buddy
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Re: my new shrimp
very nice shrimp.
when these shrimp interbreed they usually end up reverting back to the natural colors, drab brownish color. the color of the shrimp has been selectively bred to get that color.
I used to have red cherry and blueberry in the same tank before I knew it wasn't an ok thing, ended up with ugly babies that became puffer food. Once I separated the blues from the reds, they bred to color specific babies. Typically your orange, red, blue, snowball, and yellow all are neocaridina and will interbreed and are best to color only tanks.
have never kept the caridinia species (CRS, CBS) but have found if you can manage it, it is best if you want more than 1 color in a tank to house a single type of neocaridina along with a single type of caridina to not get the muddy, drab, natural color babies.
when these shrimp interbreed they usually end up reverting back to the natural colors, drab brownish color. the color of the shrimp has been selectively bred to get that color.
I used to have red cherry and blueberry in the same tank before I knew it wasn't an ok thing, ended up with ugly babies that became puffer food. Once I separated the blues from the reds, they bred to color specific babies. Typically your orange, red, blue, snowball, and yellow all are neocaridina and will interbreed and are best to color only tanks.
have never kept the caridinia species (CRS, CBS) but have found if you can manage it, it is best if you want more than 1 color in a tank to house a single type of neocaridina along with a single type of caridina to not get the muddy, drab, natural color babies.
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Re: my new shrimp
Thx for the info mateynzac wrote:very nice shrimp.
when these shrimp interbreed they usually end up reverting back to the natural colors, drab brownish color. the color of the shrimp has been selectively bred to get that color.
I used to have red cherry and blueberry in the same tank before I knew it wasn't an ok thing, ended up with ugly babies that became puffer food. Once I separated the blues from the reds, they bred to color specific babies. Typically your orange, red, blue, snowball, and yellow all are neocaridina and will interbreed and are best to color only tanks.
have never kept the caridinia species (CRS, CBS) but have found if you can manage it, it is best if you want more than 1 color in a tank to house a single type of neocaridina along with a single type of caridina to not get the muddy, drab, natural color babies.
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Re: my new shrimp
Yeah I never understood the dropping of $30+ on individual colorful invertebrates, but then again to each their own. I'm more practical than some in fishkeeping, no rare hybrids or pure-bred strains for me, no ty.Pufferpunk wrote:Nice! When I go to our local cichlid swap meet, there is a long table with about 30 different colorful shrimp species. Not cheap though!
They do look very nice though!
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Re: my new shrimp
Wow! Shrimp is expensive in London! I got shrimp out here in Hong Kong the cherry ones at eight for 48hkd which is about £3 something, dirty cheap here! But I'm trying to get the hang of breeding yabbies ATM for my soon to come fahaka puffer