Black Shrimp! - Shrimp & other Invertebrates

bioch · 11-25-2006, 03:46 PM

Okay, I remember asking for 5 amano shrimps, but Ocean Aquarium gave me a mixture of amanos and cherry. Anyways one of the cherries somehow "camoflauge" into a solid black color.

milalic · 11-25-2006, 11:34 PM

not sure that is a cherry shrimp. It looks like an unknown caridina I have in one of my tanks. If you see if has a white line from head to tail and from side to side as well.

-Pedro

Raul-7 · 11-25-2006, 11:40 PM

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Originally Posted by milalic

not sure that is a cherry shrimp. It looks like an unknown caridina I have in one of my tanks. If you see if has a white line from head to tail and from side to side as well.

-Pedro

Actually, some of my really mature Cherry Shrimp show this white line down their body, but just not as pronounced.

milalic · 11-25-2006, 11:47 PM

I have seen the white line in the back in the cherries, but the shape of the shrimp from the picture and the line that goes side to side resembles a caridina shrimp I currently have. These shrimp are showing different colorations like brown, dark blue and black like the one in the picture. It has the same distinctive pattern as the one shown in the picture.

These shrimp will have larva that will need SW for their development.

-Pedro

Xema · 11-26-2006, 01:14 AM

Really looks lke C. cf. babaulti var. Malaya or maybe a C. fernandoi.
They can get several color patterns...

I have seen some times this sp. of shrimp into Cherry shrimps groups in LFS.

Greets from Spain

milalic · 11-26-2006, 02:24 PM

Xema,

Does the C fernandoi babies go through a larval stage?

Six · 11-26-2006, 05:04 PM

this one is usually black. here she is out and showing some color. she is MUCH larger than my cherries (who are housed in a separate tank). hth

Xema · 11-27-2006, 08:05 AM

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Originally Posted by milalic

Xema,

Does the C fernandoi babies go through a larval stage?

Yeah, Really I am not sure what shrimp I kept, seeing the eggs size you can think they would be needing brackish water for larvae stage, but I am pretty sure they breeded in my tank (in a little number) without any special care.

Some days ago I got a strange stirpe of N. denticulata var. sinensis (now Neocaridina heteropoda) with a clear green body, with dark green eggs and a light yellow/green line on the back. The guy who sent me the shrimps got from a LFS as C. japonica (now Caridna multidentata), from this shrimp, he got red cherry shrimps and this green one.

And I got some strange shrimp too (a year ago) in a group my strange C. sp. Leopard/Tüpfel.

milalic · 11-27-2006, 09:59 AM

Very nice shrimp. Loos like a desmasteri or sri lanka.

-Pedro

Xema · 11-28-2006, 09:04 AM

Here it is the pictures of the suppused green N. denticulata I told you...