Golden eye blue tiger shrimp

[fwshrimp]

Here are some of my golden eye blue tiger shrimps:

[benny]

Most interesting. Not too common in our part of the world.

Cheers,

[hwchoy]

actually I thought it looked like those "blue shrimp" being sold couple years back. not sure if they are still on the market. many caridinae shrimps have red eyes, including our Caridina temasek.

hobbyists have to be careful with fancy names that carries a hefty price tag.

[taygu]

Only saw the blue ones in LFS but not too sure whether it has the golden eye..Will check it out next time..

[hwchoy]

in any case let me repeat myself, shrimps cannot easily be identified to the species level from a look at it unless dissected with microscope.

[fwshrimp]

hello,

this is color morph of the tiger shrimp (Caridina cf. cantonensis sp.).
the golden, in germany we say orange, eyes breed true.
the offspring are blue and tiger like in this thread:
http://aquaticquotient.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33515

marco

[hwchoy]

ahh you are with the german shrimp guys? crusta10?

so you would know all about shrimp species identification. do you know if this is a line bred or naturally occuring colour morph?

[fwshrimp]

hello hwchoy,

i`m not from crusta10. i`m a private breeder.
some say its a breed line and other say that they get wild caught blue tiger.
i don`t know whats true.

marco

[Radiance]

Nice shrimps