Green shrimp or not? Pic inside

ming · Post by **ming** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:32 am

next to the cherry shrimp

Post by **Mustafa** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 10:41 am

Looks like a "Green Shrimp" (Caridina cf. babaulti) to me. If you could take a picture of the shrimp from the side, it would be more helpful, though.

gnatster · Post by **gnatster** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 11:36 am

I know this has been covered before but I must be searching the wrong terms. Will that genus of "Green Shrimp" mate with a Cherry Shrimp and create a hybrid?

Sorry, I know this was covered elsewhere but I can't seem to find it.

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 1:18 pm

Hey gnat, that was me who asked that before (and possibly others before me). Mustafa says no.

Post by **Mustafa** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:41 pm

I say "no" and "not yet" so far. But that does not make it impossible. We (science in general) do not know enough about these shrimp genetically to categorically say "no" to any possibility of hybrids, except in cases where the larval development is drastically different between any two species.

Mustafa

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 2:57 pm

Well, this is just my personal experience, but I've got greens and cherries together in the same tank. I have both female and male greens, and they're happily breeding. But the cherries I have are all females, and while I see them developing eggs all the time, without males they aren't having babies.

Which tells me that the male greens are mating with the female greens, but not with the female cherries.

ming · Post by **ming** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:46 pm

Thanks
That answered pretty much all my questions
I see a lot of familiar names from another forum

amber2461 · Post by **amber2461** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:19 pm

Welcome Ming

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:08 pm

*waves*

gnatster · Post by **gnatster** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:11 pm

I see a lot of familiar names from another forum

Yes, quite interesting that way some of us plant folks split our time. Now how do we bring the shrimpers into the plant fold?

amanda_h · Post by **amanda_h** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 7:12 pm

I've been pullin' them over one at a time.

Acsuth · Post by **Acsuth** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 8:05 pm

But the cherries I have are all females, and while I see them developing eggs all the time, without males they aren't having babies.

Do the developing eggs appear fertile? If so, perhaps the green males are mating with the females but the eggs never make it to hatching. Either way, it's a true indication of completely different species IMO.