[ck]

Hi,

Just to share some pics of sakura shrimps (at least that's what I bought them as). Personally, I think they are just a very red variant of the average cherry shrimp. Fancy names?

They are supposed to get redder.

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p.s. pardon the sharpness of the photo which seems to have soften due to resizing. I will need to fix that action file soon...

 

[Tex Gal]

They look like cherries to me. Boy you have great photo. skills! What it the grass they are on?

 

[ck]

Thanks. I just got them yesterday so they might need more time to adjust.
They are on Marimo balls. Algae belonging to Cladophora sp.

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[ck]

More macros of these little things. The little one is ~30 minutes old. Cute ain't it?

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[jazzlvr123]

very nice pics just one question- how do you differentiate a Sakura shrimp from cherries?

 

[ck]

Thanks.
I personally think it is just a fancy name that they use locally for a redder morph of cherry shrimp. Sort of like how we grade crystal red shrimp here according to their colour.

From the pictures I have seen, Sakura shrimps get redder and the entire shrimp is red (including the legs). The subject in the above pictures are less than 2hours in the tank.

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p.s. For those interested, the camera settings is in the EXIF data. The camera is a Canon 40D.