Comm Tank with Malaya Shrimp

**jeffteo** · 14th Feb 2011, 21:08

Sharing some of the nicer photos of my Malaya Shrimp in my comm tank. Enjoy!

**jeffteo** · 15th Feb 2011, 01:20

Some videos to go along with the photos.

**jeffteo** · 20th Feb 2011, 03:56

Updates. The color of the females have all developed and one of it seems to be berried.
Enjoy!

**alvinchan80** · 20th Feb 2011, 11:55

Very nice shrimps and their developed colors are really nice...

**bluebubbles** · 20th Feb 2011, 23:10

I iike them when they turned brown. Otherwise they are just "colorless" or mildly tinted. Their colour can be clearly seen mostly from the back of their body, the side body coloring is unpreditable.

**jeffteo** · 28th Feb 2011, 01:19

A close up on one feasting on the Cory's food.

**Shaihulud** · 28th Feb 2011, 09:21

Very nice shrimp! I rather fancy malayan shrimp than the more colourful crs.

**Kenng** · 28th Feb 2011, 09:45

Very colourful, I also had some and one surprise observation is that one of it is colourless and change red when it is on the lava rock for a while.

**redsuns** · 28th Feb 2011, 09:54

Wow...I dun have much knowledge about them but they sure have very nice colours! Very Nice!

**jeffteo** · 28th Feb 2011, 16:35

Originally Posted by Kenng

Very colourful, I also had some and one surprise observation is that one of it is colourless and change red when it is on the lava rock for a while.

Yes, they can change color to the background to camouflage. Some call it Rainbow Shrimp.

**gryphon** · 5th Mar 2011, 19:00

Very nice Malaya shrimps u have there.
Mine are colorless. Would they turn to such nice color as they grow bigger? Anyways to help enhance their color from colorless to such nice brown?

**jeffteo** · 5th Mar 2011, 22:52

Thanks. They will be colorless when you just get them but when they settle down in the tank, their color will slowly develop. The male are more colorless and smaller.
I did not do any thing special for the shrimps. No shrimp food nor calcium additive. They just eat what my fish eats and algae in the tank. Maybe they had been feasting on the Cory's pellet food thats why the color turns out better?

**jeffteo** · 6th Mar 2011, 00:12

Captured something interesting on video this evening.

**gryphon** · 6th Mar 2011, 08:20

Originally Posted by jeffteo

Thanks. They will be colorless when you just get them but when they settle down in the tank, their color will slowly develop. The male are more colorless and smaller.
I did not do any thing special for the shrimps. No shrimp food nor calcium additive. They just eat what my fish eats and algae in the tank. Maybe they had been feasting on the Cory's pellet food thats why the color turns out better?

Thanks. Keep my fingers crossed