In honor of the 'Borneo Orange/Sunkist Orange' shrimp getting a proper scientific name (C. thambipillai), I finally digested my breeding journals down into a slightly-more readable article. Here it is:
http://bogott.net/unspecified/?page_id=1415
Quick summary: The larvae like brackish water, ideally 1.008 specific gravity, and grow quickly on an exclusive diet of microalgae. Some of my f1s were brown and some yellow, none orange.
I hope this is useful to someone! Hopefully someone else will pick up where I left off and figure out what combination of water chemistry or food produces the bright shrimp we see in shops.
Orange shrimp breeding report
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Re: Orange shrimp breeding report
Congrats on your success and thanks for the great article! I like how you actually have a scientific setup going on 
. We need more of that in the hobby. You actually see the grey/brown shrimp mixed in with the orange ones in imports, which led me to believe long time ago that the orange shrimp are likely to have gotten their coloration from food...natural or artificial (likely artificial).
Again, thanks for your efforts. As much as like all the different selectively bred varieties of bee shrimp (crystal red, panda, king kong etc.), we need more breeding attempts with wild type species to get the hobby to the next level. People have a hard enough time breeding shrimp with direct or abbreviated development (as you can see by the lack of established colonies of pretty much all wild type species), but being able to breed shrimp with saltwater larvae is even rarer. We definitely need more of that....
If you don't mind I would like to add your breeding report to the articles section of this website (which will be revamped along with the rest of the site). I'll contact you via PM to discuss this.
. We need more of that in the hobby. You actually see the grey/brown shrimp mixed in with the orange ones in imports, which led me to believe long time ago that the orange shrimp are likely to have gotten their coloration from food...natural or artificial (likely artificial). Again, thanks for your efforts. As much as like all the different selectively bred varieties of bee shrimp (crystal red, panda, king kong etc.), we need more breeding attempts with wild type species to get the hobby to the next level. People have a hard enough time breeding shrimp with direct or abbreviated development (as you can see by the lack of established colonies of pretty much all wild type species), but being able to breed shrimp with saltwater larvae is even rarer. We definitely need more of that....
If you don't mind I would like to add your breeding report to the articles section of this website (which will be revamped along with the rest of the site). I'll contact you via PM to discuss this.
Re: Orange shrimp breeding report
Eraserbones,
Congrats. The article was a nice read and I always like to see pictures.
The article will be a nice referral source for anyone attempting to breed these type of Shrimp.
I hope more Hobbyist will take up the Challenge to Breed more Wild Type Shrimp.
Please keep us posted on any additional information.
Congrats. The article was a nice read and I always like to see pictures.
The article will be a nice referral source for anyone attempting to breed these type of Shrimp.
I hope more Hobbyist will take up the Challenge to Breed more Wild Type Shrimp.
Please keep us posted on any additional information.