Introducing: Cambarellus diminutus
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Introducing: Cambarellus diminutus
I will post a detailed report soon, but here are a couple photos of the newly collected Cambarellus diminutus.
In short, my field collection trip was a success and I was able to collect a small group of individuals as well as identify numerous potential collection sites for future trips. Before I return to collect more, I must first get a positive identification on these, complete some thorough water testing, and determine that my aquaria are suitable and safe for these tiny little crays.
In short, my field collection trip was a success and I was able to collect a small group of individuals as well as identify numerous potential collection sites for future trips. Before I return to collect more, I must first get a positive identification on these, complete some thorough water testing, and determine that my aquaria are suitable and safe for these tiny little crays.
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Yes they are.CanadianCray wrote:I know some guys in Germany would be drooling over those.
Do you happen to come to Florida in the future? There are great species like Cambarellus schmitti and blacki. I have not seen photos of black yet, but schmitti is awesome.
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LOL I was thinking of you Andy when I first saw those.zwergkrebszuechter wrote:Yes they are.CanadianCray wrote:I know some guys in Germany would be drooling over those.
Do you happen to come to Florida in the future? There are great species like Cambarellus schmitti and blacki. I have not seen photos of black yet, but schmitti is awesome.
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Yes, these are adults. From everything I have read, C. diminutus does not grow larger than 2.5 cm.Neonshrimp wrote:Thank you for sharing the beautiful specimens! Are these adult crays? Best wishes on your future field collection trips .
Future trips will be more productive. Even though I knew where to find the right streams where they live, it still took half a day to figure out exactly where they were in the stream and how to best collect them. These streams also had an abundance of ghost shrimp, and every time I put the net in the water it came up with lots of these.
I know that C. Blacki lives about 50 miles east of where I was collecting in Alabama, so I will definitely try to collect them in the future too. I'll have to really do my research because they have only been found in one single pond.zwergkrebszuechter wrote: Do you happen to come to Florida in the future? There are great species like Cambarellus schmitti and blacki. I have not seen photos of black yet, but schmitti is awesome.
I hope so too. A more detailed update and full description of my collecting trip will come as soon as I finish the water testing and get a look at these under stronger magnification.Mustafa wrote:This is great, Yucca!! I hope they breed just as readily as their C. shufeldtii cousins. Keep us updated!
Interesting....you might want to catch some of those, too, as they *might* be Palaemonetes kadiakensis (the "other" freshwater ghost shrimp). Both P. paludosus and P. kadiakensis occur in the gulf region as far as I know.YuccaPatrol wrote:These streams also had an abundance of ghost shrimp, and every time I put the net in the water it came up with lots of these.
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Mustafa,
I did bring home some of them because I just couldn't help myself. They do not have the same orange band markings of the ghosts that I have purchased as feeders. Same basic body shape, but I haven't really looked closely at them other than to notice that they didn't have any orange on them.
When I first started looking for the crays, I saw so many ghost shrimp that I assumed that the crays would be easier to spot among the debris than the ghosts. It turned out that the crays were MUCH harder to see.
Had I not made that assumption, I probably would have found crays much sooner because I am certain that I was dumping nets that contained crays at the beginning.
I'll try to get a photo of these ghosts soon. (I sure have my work cut out for me over the next week or two)
I did bring home some of them because I just couldn't help myself. They do not have the same orange band markings of the ghosts that I have purchased as feeders. Same basic body shape, but I haven't really looked closely at them other than to notice that they didn't have any orange on them.
When I first started looking for the crays, I saw so many ghost shrimp that I assumed that the crays would be easier to spot among the debris than the ghosts. It turned out that the crays were MUCH harder to see.
Had I not made that assumption, I probably would have found crays much sooner because I am certain that I was dumping nets that contained crays at the beginning.
I'll try to get a photo of these ghosts soon. (I sure have my work cut out for me over the next week or two)