My friend, an owner of a petshop, had a couple of these guys a while ago. The wholesaler had them under the name Caridina sp. "Rocket". Nothing shows up in the net, looks like another weird trade name given to shrimp of unknown origin
ts168 wrote:Yap. it common name is call Rocket Shrimp.
It can have green neon color also.
Must look beautiful
ts168 wrote:They look like a inbetween of green Neon Shrimp and Red-nose shrimp.
Exactly, but what are they? It's not possible to cross Neon Shrimps and Red-Nose, or maybe I'm wrong? I assume we are talking about Neocaridina denticulata (Neon Shrimp) and Caridina gracilirostris (Red-Nose). In this case cross-breeding is impossible.
ts168 wrote:It very seldom seen in singapore LFS.
I have no idea where the wholesaler had them from and there is no use asking, they always make a secret of this kind of information anyway
This shrimp is not a crossbreed at all. It's a different species altogether. Their origin is India. They are very rarely seen anywhere actually. The ones that I had came from Calcutta in India along with other species such as the "green shrimp" and "pearl shrimp." They were imported as "Emerald Green Shrimp." Unfortunately, they died the same day they arrived since the exporter in India does not care much about packaging them properly, but puts tons of these poor animals all in one bag.
They are very attractive shrimp and seem to be able to propagate in total freshwater since their eggs are pretty large and few in numbers. I hope I can get my hands on these guys in the future and get a chance to breed them.
You will see many more shrimp come from India in the future, since India alone has more than 100 species of algae eating shrimp and probably almost as many Macrobrachium and related species.
Mustafa wrote:This shrimp is not a crossbreed at all. It's a different species altogether. Their origin is India. They are very rarely seen anywhere actually. The ones that I had came from Calcutta in India along with other species such as the "green shrimp" and "pearl shrimp." They were imported as "Emerald Green Shrimp." Unfortunately, they died the same day they arrived since the exporter in India does not care much about packaging them properly, but puts tons of these poor animals all in one bag.
Mustafa wrote:They are very attractive shrimp and seem to be able to propagate in total freshwater since their eggs are pretty large and few in numbers. I hope I can get my hands on these guys in the future and get a chance to breed them.
Great. And we didn't leave any of these beauties for ourselves
Now what???
I can't believe our stupidity... But that was before we started shrimp-freaking.
Mustafa wrote:You will see many more shrimp come from India in the future, since India alone has more than 100 species of algae eating shrimp and probably almost as many Macrobrachium and related species.
I hope so, I'll never forgive myself or my friend for selling every one of them. Maybe the wholesaler will have these Rockets in his offer again soon.
