milalic

Recently I got some shrimps and I think they might be a mixed of bumble bees, bee/diamond...any help in identifying them is appreciated. Let me know if I am correct.

1. Bumble bee shrimp







2. Bee shrimp( first band is white)



3. This one is harder to tell. Either is a wild diamond or a bumble bee. I could not get a better shot.

It has a orange tail and rostrum and the tail seems to have some white dots,




Cheers,
Pedro

JerseyScape

Most of my bumblebees look like the first shrimp you have listed.

milalic

Some people say that this shrimp is called a new bee shrimp

gnatster

I recently picked some of both types up at my lfs. I have seen #1 called New Bee Shrimp in other locations. The lfs billed them as "Honey Bee" shrimp. The #2 type I am always confused when it comes to naming them. The ones I picked up also have the first band as white, with 4 white spots on the tail. These were billed as Bumblebee. Knock on wood, these have all lived in my tanks for a week. Normally these imports do fair poorly. I think these had been at the lfs for a little while as I had to really hunt in to find 12, cleaning them out.Their tanks of shrimp were pretty much all cleaned out too.

milalic

Kinda hard with these bees/bumble bees/new bee to differentiate.
I need to do some hunting and separate them....according to someone at shrimpnow.com the #2 is a new type that has no name yet. The first one is a new bee and the last one a diamond.

I also have some that I know are bumble bee...So in all I apparently ended with 4 different shrimps. Hoepfully I have a pair of each one.