Blue Shrimp?

[aquanatix]

Came across an LFS selling a bag of blue shrimps recently.
Price wise is roughly the same amount as the cherry shrimp.
The little buggers look extremely nice! At least I would think they'd make a good contrast to the more commonly red colouration found in most of the favourite species kept here like CRS, cherry etc...
Anyone here has any experience with the prawns?
Read that the blue colouration isn't "true" and that it will NOT pass on to offsprings. Anyone care to shed more like on the species?
For those who've never seen it before, below is the picture of the shrimp kindly taken from www.petshrimp.com

[AA24]

Thanks for sharing.. Like to get some myself.. would you PM or post here with details..

I have Tiger shrimp and used to have a few in blue.. left only 1 now that is blue.. it is a different tone of blue.. not as concentrated like in your pic..

cheers

[aquanatix]

Well,the shrimps cost about 60cents each?
From what i saw inside the bag that was floating in the LFS tank,they are ALL as blue as my above attached picture!
Will purchase them to try out soon...
Almost forgot,saw them critters at an aquarium in the west.(Unsure of name)

[zyblack]

Nature Aquarium has some too. Just got 3 from Mr Chan. Think they are either hybrids of cherries or injected with blue dye. If injected, their offspring will unlikely to have their blue colour. Hope they are hybrids since I sort of like their colours.

[aquanatix]

Do keep us updated on how your shrimps turn out.
Read that blue shrimps originated from china? Not to sound discriminating but blue dyes aren't surprising at all!
From what i've read so far, it is CONFIRMED that the blue does not trade and is probably a result of the food or artificial input of colour.
On a side note, the original colour does look kind of nice though!

[blackBRUSHalgae]

I would believe that what aquanatix said is true. Their offspring will not be in blue colour.

[aquanatix]

So its true then...argh!
What a let down,was looking forward to keeping and hopefully breeding true blue shrimps!

[Quixotic]

aquanatix, your question regarding the orange shrimps have been split here, http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=32348 to facilitate better and organised discussion.

[jljx]

Hi All,
Can these beauties be kept with Galaxy Rasboras and still be able to breed? Or will the Galaxies eat them up?

Cheers!

[aquanatix]

Hi jljx,i asked the same question before!
Well apparently,ALL fish will technically devour shrimplets as they're extremely tiny.
What most people recommend is that if you're interested in breeding shrimps,just keep them in a purely shrimp tank! For me,galaxies aren't a problem as my shrimps are only secondary.I treat the shrimplet loss as population maintenance!

[Quixotic]

Split out the question on small fishes to new thread since this is not specific to blue shrimps only.
http://www.aquaticquotient.com/forum...ad.php?t=32509

Please try to stick to topic, thanks.

[krabbie]

Came across an LFS selling a bag of blue shrimps recently.
Price wise is roughly the same amount as the cherry shrimp.
The little buggers look extremely nice! At least I would think they'd make a good contrast to the more commonly red colouration found in most of the favourite species kept here like CRS, cherry etc...
Anyone here has any experience with the prawns?
Read that the blue colouration isn't "true" and that it will NOT pass on to offsprings. Anyone care to shed more like on the species?
For those who've never seen it before, below is the picture of the shrimp kindly taken from www.petshrimp.com

I have some blue shrimps in my tank now and their coloration is definitely not as bluish as the picture. They have juz just reproduced some shrimplets .. will see if the coloration deteriorates or not.

[aquanatix]

Just a quick note...often when i see dead blue shrimps in the bags they're contained in, the colouration is often of a brownish tone.
I've been seeing alot of this brown colouration in dead blue shrimps that i've started to assume that the "original" colour of these shrimps are in fact brown.
Has your blue shrimplets developed brown colouration krabbie?

[Tetra Lover]

My blue shrimps have turned into brown colour..look no much different to malayan shrimps

[Kross]

got some blue shrimps from nature some time back..... most are still blue
but some turned colorless and brown....i suspect those to be malayan as
the back stripe appeared.... as for those that are still blue, i believe they
are really blue shrimps.... could it be that the blues are in the same habitat
as malayan?





cheers.......

[Shadow]

Bro Kross, off topic, what plant is that on the rock?

[illumnae]

probably the expensive moss sold at c328 there was a discussion on it sometime back i think. might be called "cho-cho moss" or "bubble moss"?

[PLee]

by the way, will blue shrimps cross with CRs?

[lEddyl]

Bro Kross, off topic, what plant is that on the rock?

it's Plagiomnium sp

[Shadow]

thanks bro, nice moss