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The chips lie on thin layer of gravel or mix of sand and gravel of different size. The chips do not lie on bare bottom. With chips I keep almost all my shrimps - Crystal red, Bee, Bumblebee, C. simoni, Cherry, N.denticulata, C.japonica, Tiger, Snowball.

I have very good experience with use of aquarium root chips or shavings:

The female alredy has the eggs on her pleopods. I´m sorry I have not any photo. She is very shy and I do not want to disturb her by photo creation.

I discovered another two young colorless shrimps today . I immediately separate all colorless shrimps to the special tank. Just now I have four colorless shrimps overall. I continue to search...

My tank with colorless C.simoni:

Here are another photos of my wild colored C.simoni:

I bought 30 speciments in october last year from another breeder here in the Czech Republic. These animals already were born in captivity. All 30 animals looked normally. Today I have hundreds offspring of these 30 shrimps. Among them I discovered the colorless speciments. I still try to discover an...

Mustafa,

I apologize for commercial link. I forgot it is banned on this forum.

It is not snowball shrimp. I keep the species/variety too. I know it very well. This is C. simoni or another relative species as C. propingua. This species is also available here in the Czech Republic ( ADMIN: [commercial URL deleted] Please red the rules. Commercial links are not allowed .). At lea...

Hi all, I have one colorless female C.simoni. I will try to cultivate it to the pure line (if the appearance has genetical background). http://www.akvakrevetky.wz.cz/simoni1.JPG Here is photo of normal aminals from my population of C. simoni for comparation: http://www.akvakrevetky.wz.cz/simoni2.jpg

I recommand this title:

How to Raise and Train Your Peppermint Shrimp by April Kirkendoll

Gregor Samsa Mendel reference is clear. I thought you know another reference concerned by adults nad genus Caridina/Neocaridina.

Neonshrimp wrote:It was by themselves due to the bacteria they were infected with.

Can you write me literature source where is description of this phenomenon? Thanks.

bulrush wrote:Wow! Did they luminesce by themselves or under UV light?

They luminsced by themselves. Next two days another seven shrimps died, but I didn´t observe the same phenomenon.

I bought 30 bee shrimps yesterday. Three animals died during adaptation to new contidions at night. I was very surprised, the death animals luminesced! Do anybody oberve the same thing?

Yes, they can interbreed. For more see article on http://www.garenele-online.de -> Magazindownload -> Ausgabe 2 - März 2006