Cool or beautiful mutations in your invertebrates? Or through selective breeding?

[bluesilver]

I have been very interested in invertebrates lately, and I actually already have a 2ft tank with many red cherry shrimps, along with guppies and tetras (the tank is heavily planted so the shrimplets can hide and grow to adult size).

Recently, I have been particularly interested in freshwater invertebrates like shrimp, crabs, crayfish and snails.

Most of you invertebrate keepers already know about the following information, but I'd like to give a short summary just for the sake of this thread.

By doing some research on freshwater dwarf shrimp, I understand that different colourations of shrimp (especially those of the Bee Shrimp variety) are very highly prized.

For example, selective breeding of Neocaridina davidi to amplify otherwise negligible colors has produced beautiful colours like the Fire Red and Emperor strains. I believe that the beginner RCS obtained its reddish colourations through selective breeding.

A rarer occurrence to obtain such beautiful colourations is through the other, much more random way to get these beautiful colourations and patterns - mutations, or maybe even repressed recessive alleles present within the genome.

The popular Crystal Red Shrimp came from the Bee Shrimp (Caridina cantonensis) as a result of mutations, and now, we see many cool, unique-looking strains that arose from the original through a combination of mutations and selective breeding, like Black Diamond Shrimp, Black King Kong Shrimp, Wine Red Shrimp and Blue Bolt Shrimp.

Also, on a side note, there are also popular shrimp that have cool patterns and colourations arising through natural selection, like the different varieties of Sulawesi shrimp that we see occasionally in LFS.

What this thread is about is if you invertebrate keepers and breeders have witnessed any relatively cool-looking and beautiful mutations, or selectively bred your own strain of invertebrates like shrimp, crabs, crayfish and snails?

[Urban Aquaria]

I've been quite interested in the Paracaridina species of shrimps... they seem to be wild-caught and already have nice colors and patterns from nature. Not sure why they aren't more common in the hobby though, i guess no one has made them popular yet.

Here are some photos of them from various shrimp sites:











Photo & Info Sources:
http://www.shrimpkeeping.com/paracaridina/
http://www.caridea.org/paracaridina.html
http://shrimpery.com/shrimps/category/paracaridina

Has anyone seen these types of shrimps in LFS before, or know anyone locally who are keeping/breeding these shrimps?

[popimac]

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[bluesilver]

I've been quite interested in the Paracaridina species of shrimps... they seem to be wild-caught and already have nice colors and patterns from nature. Not sure why they aren't more common in the hobby though, i guess no one has made them popular yet.

Here are some photos of them from various shrimp sites:











Photo & Info Sources:
http://www.shrimpkeeping.com/paracaridina/
http://www.caridea.org/paracaridina.html
http://shrimpery.com/shrimps/category/paracaridina

Has anyone seen these types of shrimps in LFS before, or know anyone locally who are keeping/breeding these shrimps?

That is really nice genus of shrimps. I wonder if they are able to be bred in captivity, but it seems like it. It seems like they can be cross-bred with Caridina spp. as well. I hope we see more of this genus in Singapore soon.