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Found these at a LFS, but not sure what species they are. The one with the orange/rusty tail and rostrum looks to be a "bee" to me. The others I guess at being possibly "bumblebee" yet they have white heads instead of the typical black.

Hi
Sorry ,I can not help with the identification, but , could you tell me what the lfs called them?
Maybe I could get the lps here to order me a few.

Thanks
John

Hard to tell from the pics, but they look to be bumblebee and bee shrimp.
The browns ones are bumblebee and the others could be bee shrimp of one variety or another. Bee shrimp have hook at the end of their dark banding. Check the shrimp varieties page for bee shrimp. Mustafa had a good post a while back on this, but I can't find it.

badflash wrote: Mustafa had a good post a while back on this, but I can't find it.

was looking for it also and did not found it anywhere
must use the wrong word key in the search fields

I think I found the thread that contained the discussion on the "new bee" which is just a different version of the "bumblebee". That's what I would say these are, just wasn't expecting anything like that at this store. There was only on "bee" mixed in with the ones I brought home.

NEWJOHN, the shrimp weren't labeled as anything...just shrimp.

if you found it
please can you post that link

Maybe this one...

viewtopic.php?t=896&highlight=bee

Bumblebees and new bees.
I am not sure if NB are variety of BB. It should be other species. They also shoud be hybrids of these species.

This is the post I was looking for:
viewtopic.php?t=1257&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

thanks badflash

The one with the orange tail and rostrum is a bee shrimp. The rest are various varities of "bumblebee" shrimp. The term "new bee shrimp" is falsely used by some people because they did not realize that these shrimp are bumblebees or extremly closely related to bumblebees. And then there are all the hybrids among the different varities and possibly with the bee shrimp also... I'm working on deciphering this whole issue as we speak (and have been working on it for a while) so we'll have a little more clarity on this issue soon.

Well unfortunately all, but the one bee shrimp died. A few died within hours of getting them home from the ten minute drive from the store. Always tough with imports.

frugalfish wrote:Well unfortunately all, but the one bee shrimp died. A few died within hours of getting them home from the ten minute drive from the store. Always tough with imports.

Sad to hear. However, not surprising when it comes to imported shrimp as you already know. More reason to establish as many breeding colonies as possible of all shrimp species in the hobby so shrimp hobbyists don't have to deal with such disappointments and the natural populations do not get depleted.