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dooboogoo
4th Oct 2007, 05:33 PM
Here's a pic...
http://i24.tinypic.com/vosopl.jpg
any ideas?

Is it some kind of neocaridina?
gr81
4th Oct 2007, 08:15 PM
should be neocaridina, maybe heteropoda or other. did you buy it?
shrimpette
5th Oct 2007, 12:43 AM
I had a few similar in color, though not as dark. I purchased them along with various other shrimp labeled as "rainbow shrimp". My "rainbow shrimp" were undoubtedly a mixture of neocaridina sp. hybrids of some sort. The few black ones that I had never seemed to carry eggs although they appeared to be female.

I found that to be very curious.

I no longer have these shrimp. I only had two and I sent them to another breeder.
dooboogoo
5th Oct 2007, 01:07 AM
should be neocaridina, maybe heteropoda or other. did you buy it?

I think I did, but I just noticed it now...and i did get cherries from two sources...so i'm sure that they're neocaridina...
shrimpette
5th Oct 2007, 02:50 AM
I think I did, but I just noticed it now...and i did get cherries from two sources...so i'm sure that they're neocaridina...

I bought mine off of ebay.
gr81
5th Oct 2007, 07:37 AM
That should be dark colored wild form of heteropoda, did you bought also "pregnant" female? If not and you have only cherries, than i must be some mutation. But more probably some of cherries was not cheries but wild type. You will see. if they will crossbreed.
dooboogoo
5th Oct 2007, 07:33 PM
That should be dark colored wild form of heteropoda, did you bought also "pregnant" female? If not and you have only cherries, than i must be some mutation. But more probably some of cherries was not cheries but wild type. You will see. if they will crossbreed.

Yeah, i think there are some wild type males, they don't seem as colored as the cherry males...but I've only had them for a couple months, could a shrimp this big grow that fast? cuz i didn't notice it when i put them in...
Leonard
6th Oct 2007, 11:06 AM
If it is "Rainbow" shrimp, it is probobly some kind of Caridina baubalti. I bought some green ones of these and now I have the same shrimps in red and bronw colour. They do change colour reallt easy.
Caridina baulati could be green, blue, red or brown.
Koi Boy
9th Oct 2007, 04:44 AM
i see them every now and then, our store brings them in as malaysian rainbow shrimp and they do change color i have seen mine turn red, blue, brown, black and almost clear too.
it might be the quality of water, diet, or stage of molting that gives the shrimp the variety of colors as it ages
i believe some people call the black ones "ninja shrimp"
gr81
9th Oct 2007, 08:07 AM
Ninjas are C. serratirostris
http://www.shrimpnow.com/modules.php?Caridina%20serratirostris%20(Ninja%20S hrimp)&name=Content&file=viewarticle&id=10
But maybe someone can call them so :)
Leonard
9th Oct 2007, 09:42 AM
Maybe a black mutant of RC?
waratep
22nd Oct 2007, 09:40 AM
Awesome...
MariaMakiling
5th Nov 2007, 05:30 PM
if your black shrimp is a cherry shrimp colour mutation, that would be pretty great. A dark black shrimp with red undertones would simply be gorgeous, I myself look forward to any such development with Neocaridina or C. baubalti! Yes do let us know if any dark females reproduce, and let them hatch in a shrimp free tank, see what happens. :)
A tank with some green shrimps and a black (neocaridina) morph would be pretty attractive.
crystalqueen
6th Nov 2007, 10:48 AM
hello,

i also have this colours in my tanks.

im nearly sure that it is a heteropoda in adult mutation of the cherry/fire shrimp.
between of hundrets of my fire shrimps i have always female black ones.

so i think it's a colour mutation of heteropoda.
i alswo have selekted 10 of these shrimps to check if the black coulor are also at young shrimps.

greetings rené