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i was interested by a topic in which someone suggested adding high grade bee shrimp to a tank of crystal red shrimp in order to breed higher grade crystal red shrimp. the topic claimed that although the first and second generation would probably result in bee shrimp, the third generation and onward would turn up crystal red shrimp

the person suggested putting something like 9 crystal reds to 1 bee

is there any validity to this claim? i was under the impression that out of 1000 bee shrimp only 3 crystal reds would be born. if the claim is true though, i would assume that the resulting higher-grade crystals would be somewhat hardier than other crystals due to a bigger gene pool. also, it sounds like a cheaper way to get higher-grade crystal reds.

any information on this topic would be appreciated

erijnalunique

Welcome.

Have you successfuly breed Crystal Red Shrimp ?

Have a Great Day
John

Hello again erijalunique

Do a search in this forum under " Is Cross Breeding Detrimental "

I hope this will answer your question.

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John

yeah i already tried searching the forums, but nothing specific came up. again, any information or experience on this subject would be helpful

Crystal reds and bee shrimp follow simple mendelian genetics. Black is dominant and red is recessive. And yes, this topic has been discussed here before:

viewtopic.php?t=637&highlight=mendelian+genetics

Mustafa

How do you put the link in the reply to another post ?

I just put the one I found in " " , to try and let erijnalunique find it.

But of coarse your link was a better choice.

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John

Use the and or "Close Tags" around the link.

badflash

Thanks again

Computers are not my thing.

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John

If you read Japanese, you can search this topic on .jp websites (or use the translation software). There are many excellent articles about this.


The main reason you bring in black/white BEE shrimps is the genetic. The main focus is not to IMPROVE the color or pattern (you should get good grade CRS to improve the color or the pattern - that is faster than using BEE shrimps). After CRS inbreeds several generations, the offsprings tend to become weaker (I breed angelfish too. Angelfish also have this type of problem. That is why angelfish breeders frequently bring un-related lines into their breeding stock too).

For CRS, BEE shrimps are used to correct this problem.