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I wonder if by sheer luck if it's possible that one or two of the 100's of Caridina japonica larvae dropped by a female could make it in FW. Call it a fluke of nature but somehow one manages ot beat the odds of survival and does successfully live and settles out. Possibly it is not as far fetched as we seem. This is not to say this is a repeatable action but simply a freak of nature.


Just a rambling muse, no proof, no science behind the madness,

I suppose that would be more or less how evolution comes.
But, to get multiple such exceptional individuals in one brood should probably be considered virtually impossible ... assuming there's no question about the species.

Yep, thats why i'm "trying", but i'm definatly keeping a close look on the amanos with there stress level. Since there not use to salt, i'm gonna pull them right away if I see a change of color/behavior. Only time will tell. HEY, ya can't get mad at me for trying. I "failed" dramatically at the "correct" way so why not try the funky way.

I'm with mustafa on this one, and many other ones too i just haven't counted, Amanos live a 2 part life cycle. Speciation is not the response to an environment, it's a mutation that allows for adaptation to a habitat. For that to happen your talking geologic numbers, 1 in 20 million might have a particular mutation. The that one has to survive and breed, and pass it's genes on etc etc.

The amount of salt your adding is about a 15.4 grains ~ 1 gram per 2 days to 16 cups= 1 gallon = 3.78L. Sea water is 270-350g/L. It's not getting anywhere close to brackish water if my numbers are right, some freshwater probly has more TDS.

Figure 7 look identical to mine except for their orange coloration, mine are unpigmented, and his results from his food selection:
http://mikes-machine.mine.nu/breeding_yamato.htm

http://maitrebull.free.fr/aqua/caridinajaponica.htm -> google hyper link and translate

http://caridina.japonica.online.fr/ -> google hyper link and translate