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Cannot resist to share some pictures of my A. desmarestii with you.
Atyaephira desmarestii is a freshwater shrimp commonly found in southern France but you can found this species around the mediterranean sea and more in the North (up to Germany). They can display various colors from yellow to blue ...

badflash wrote:I vote for "root beer shrimp".

I'm on the big island of Hawaii right now and have found some very interesting shrimp living in brackish ponds. They are mostly transparent with some black and white markings. Perfect camo for the lava and coral sand substrate here.

The largest I have seen are about 2 inches long.

Does anybody ...

Shrimp&Snails wrote:

Happy birthday Petshrimp.com. Although targetting US hobbyists, this website is already famous around the world after two years of existence only. I think you can be proud of it, Mustapha.

All best wishes from France.
B.

Are you sure you have flat worms 0_o. It sounds like you have planaria and some harmless nematodes feeding off excess food/nutrients.

Flatworms are salt water creatures. I don't doubt that there are freshwater ones but I've never heard of 'em. Any chance for a linky? I wouldn't think a saltwater ...

The shrimp is originally from the mediterranean area but spread northwards into central Europe over the last few decades.

Yes, I wish I had already precised this in my first post. My english is probably not as excellent as you thought :wink:
Concerning Atyaephyra desmarestii in Portugal,I think ...

I had some but just managed to breed them once. youngs tend to be more pale and brownish, even kinda transparent.

The adults seem to take different colors from reddish to bluish like in the photo. I do not think it is genetics but I have no scientific data to prove it.

Cheers,
Pedro
Young ...

Just to inform people here that blue freshwater shrimps do exist, at least to a certain extent. They belong to the species Atyaephyra desmaresti, a species that is wide spread all around the Mediterranean sea but also in the north of Europe up to Germany where its occurence has been recently ...