Colorless C.simoni
Moderator: Mustafa
Colorless C.simoni
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).
Here is photo of normal aminals from my population of C. simoni for comparation:
I have one colorless female C.simoni. I will try to cultivate it to the pure line (if the appearance has genetical background).
Here is photo of normal aminals from my population of C. simoni for comparation:
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- Tiny Shrimp
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Are you sure that you do not have a snowball shrimp and C. simonii? There are some sellers in Germany, that sell "Caridina simonii" and send a crude mix of different Neocaridina species, even A, desmaresti and only if you are lucky, there are C. simonii in there, too. From the shape of the body, it could be C. simonii, but why are the eyes black?
Took me a while to get a good strain of C. simonii.
Took me a while to get a good strain of C. simonii.
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 least they claim it is C. propingua. The female was born in my tank. It is F1 or F2 generation. Parental generation was pure. I am sure it was not mixture of different species. I separated female one month ago. But what surprise, today, when I searched for suitable male for the female in the tank with hundreds of the normal colored animals, I discovered another similar colorless and black eye specimen. Two mutated speciments in one tank is somewhat suspicious for me. Both animals behave normally. I hope the new discovered specimen is male. Just now, they are together in separated cycled tank. I will try to snap better photo of the female. I will keep you updated in progress.
- Neonshrimp
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I too hope this is the case and you are able to breed more of the colorless shrimp Keep a look out for saddles, a tell tell sign that it is a female. Please keep us updated.I discovered another similar colorless and black eye specimen. Two mutated speciments in one tank is somewhat suspicious for me. Both animals behave normally. I hope the new discovered specimen is male.
It's ok. No problem. Just keep it in mind for future postings. And don't forget to update us on your shrimp. Just a question...are these offspring of shrimp you have owned for a while or did you just discover these shrimp in a shipment of wild-caught animals?Daudin wrote:Mustafa,
I apologize for commercial link. I forgot it is banned on this forum.
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 another.
- Neonshrimp
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- Neonshrimp
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