Mystery shrimp

[Symbiot]

could someone help me ID, this little friend.
I must have gotten it in a batch of RCS i bought from a lfs... I bought a "Swing the net" hehe....there were 4 different species in the tank: bumblebee, CRS, RCS & hmm... cant remember the last one....

any ideas...sry for the poor picture...

[simcb]

Hi,

Its pretty hard to tell from the picture if it is a Caridina type or Neocaridina type. If possible try to re-take a clearer picture of your shrimp.

Does it look something like this? If it is, I suspect it might be a Neocardina type known as "Black shell shrimp" locally in singapore.
http://www.shrimpnow.com/mygallery/files/2/0/Shrimp06.JPG

[Symbiot]

[QUOTE=simcb]Hi,

Its pretty hard to tell from the picture if it is a Caridina type or Neocaridina type. If possible try to re-take a clearer picture of your shrimp.

Does it look something like this? If it is, I suspect it might be a Neocardina type known as "Black shell shrimp" locally in singapore.



doesnt look like that at all... .sorry..hehe..... =)

the bands seem thicker..

[simcb]

For your info, the pic i borrowed is a black shell shrimplet a few weeks old if you look at the plant its standing on its tiny in ratio. As it grows up more features will develop some with a brown stripe at the back and some with black bands. Even for RCS some has a pink stripe at its back and some dont and some are very red and some aren't. Some hobbist would even mistaken a male cherry (less red and slimmer) as a different species from its female counterparts.

The so called "black shell" are consider a plague among some cherry lovers who like to maintain a line of pure cherry offsprings as they are known to cross breed with RCS. However these "black shell" are excellent algae eaters like yamatos according to a hobbist i met has keeping them for fun occasionally he will get a few RCS from his black shell shrimps. Many hobbists are also getting a few black shell offspring from its cherry parents. However its like 1 out of 8 cherry offspring ratio. So far i dont have not seen any appearing in my cherry tank for many generations so i suppose my is a pure cherry line.

Or you might a found new species in your tank :D
Show us a clearer picture dont keep us in suspense. :p

[Symbiot]

I'll se if i cant convince the little bugger.. and my camera to coopererate... I have 1 of the little black shelled shrimps... but this one is quite different....


I'll try today..! =)

[Dracula]

could someone help me ID, this little friend.
I must have gotten it in a batch of RCS i bought from a lfs... I bought a "Swing the net" hehe....there were 4 different species in the tank: bumblebee, CRS, RCS & hmm... cant remember the last one....

any ideas...sry for the poor picture...


purple zebra shrimp?