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Great Are you coming to germany especially for the shrimps or are you visiting famely or on vacantion? Can't we meet somewhere, i would love to buy some of your indian white banded shrimp

I'm planning to buy a group off these shrimps this summer from a German breeder (Gerd Voss) but the stories about the red tiger spooked me
http://www.gerdvoss.de/Wirbellose/Weiss ... ienen.html
Is this for real or is this also bad news?

I think the shrimps where stressed, 2 of them turned black the nex morning. The other one (a pregnant female) was hiding so i don't know about her..

sorry double again

this was my blue one but in real it was not that blue. Maybe the flash made it seem more blue than it realy was.

I once bought some blue caridina's from a german webshop. Only once i saw my shrimps blueish for the rest of the time they kept brown Since i hear the same story over and over again from other shrimpowners i don't believe in blue shrimps anymore.

Now you've got me worried a friend off mine bought a few yesterday and is probably buying more this friday. He already mentionned that the red is not the bright red of the first images. I adviced him to separate the new tigers from his other shrimps.

Does anybody own one of these guys? I've seen pictures of 3 different colors: blue, red and the greenish one (i think thats the normal color). Are the difficult to keep, how big do they realy get, are they only night active and can you realy keep them with fishes in the same tank?

I see that often, think it's cleaning behavoir. All my other shrimps do it to.

I think it's realy red. Just like with bee shrimps and crystal reds i guess. Someone found a few at a store between the normal black striped tiger this week. Think the store is gonna get very busy coming week

My cherry's eat about everything i try With me it's the other species that just won't have it I think they might have to get used to what you feed them.

Wow what a beauty! are you planning to buy some?

Those most likely aren't leeches. From your description they sound like they are planaria. They appear if you are overfeeding. They'll disappear if they cannot find enough food to subsist...i.e. if your shrimp population gets larger they should disppear. Other than that...palaemonid shrimp such as ...

Cajunspice wrote:that scared me a bit because i used the algae wafers from hikari

I looked at the ingredients online but couldn,t find it in there

They are not sold anywhere at all. You would have to go catch them in the caribbean yourself. :) I hope that in the future (many years from now) I can get a breeding stock and try to breed them. It won't be easy since the larvae will need saltwater to survive. Mustafa I suddenly rember that a aquar...

I wouldn't take the risc myself :? maybe it's possible to catch all the shrimps out , use the product and than use Cuprisorb from Seachem that will remove all copper from your water again. I'm not sure that this product is sold worldwide but there must be an substitute if it isn't for sale where you...