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very nice shrimp john.
look like very healthy.
did you get berried ?

for the ID i dont know, he remind me a bit the N. palmata.
LEt see what mustafa will say on that one.

hello Werner,
I will be in spain this summer, to visit spouse family.
i hope i will be able see nice shrimp there.
Thanks

bpmox wrote:Haha, my initial reaction was "Holy Shit!" because for a second I thought the leaf in the 2nd picture was a hand and finger pointing at the shrimp.

heheh
would me amazing

wow
very nice pictures
dream

sorry to heard about the death:( but was expected .

badflash wrote:If you got a P. alleni, that is par for the course. Most crays under 2" will eat eachother given the chance and especially when one molts.

agree
multiple hidding spot for the molting process is a must if you want keep them together.

wow weird
but even if it look (not really but....) a crs , this is and will stay a cherry

what else you have in your tank

This is a "ghost shrimp" (Palaemonetes paludosus) that is not doing all that well (hence the weird coloration). Healthy ones are always clear and vibrant. thanks mustafa i dont dont why people treat the "ghost shrimp" like that , i found this shrimp have very interesting behavio...

Neonshrimp wrote:I would think you will need larger tanks with your new interest

Yes i know
i am planing add 20 x 40g to my existing 50 tanks , so for space i will be ok.

ok i will try to found those marble.
any other (who involv mating) in moind ?

thanks everybody for the answer.

Hello, I already breeding dwarf cray , like CPO, C. puer , C. montezume, C. shufeltdtii etc... i want to move forward a bit and go in medium size cray. what is the recommendation in term of facility to maintain , facility to breed , and of course facility to find. and on top of that i would like (if...

i have my pop for about 7 or 8 years now.
i would quarantine them from the wild if i was you , since they can carry cyst like the palmata.
most of the parasite will die if they dont find terget host.

thanks

congrats , one more iwth the very contagious shrimp bug

wow pretty neat shrimp. it is why i always have a look in the ghost shrimp tank when i stop at petshop :) for you ID i will not be very usefull, but the rostrum of this shrimp is pretty cool. hoe you will found the id , and i hope you get lucky and have both sex assuming they reproduce in freshwater...

good luck with them
i think soon one of my dream will become reality, look like i will have thoose guy sometime soon

thanks John i will shout you a PM.