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Hi! Today I discover that one of my white bead bumble bee offspring, have a full white body! is this normal?

not normal...but I guess is not out of the realm of possibilities.
Do you keep other shrimp in this tank?

Definitely unusual, I like it though, looks like a ghost. Probably just one of the marvels of genetic variation. Thanks for sharing pictures.

That looks like a mutation. Try to breed that one by crossing it back with its parents or sisters/brothers. If it's a simple recessive trait you won't see any white shrimp in the first generation of babies, but they should start appearing in the generation after that. Good luck!

Wow, a new mutation. Hope it becomes a common one in the future!

mustafa is very hard to see who are his parents, but if he is a male i've got one female almost white. if were a female i'll cross it with one brother.

How do you know it is an offspring from a bumble bee and not from the crystal red in the picture?(looks like a CRS)

-Pedro

Hi! I know because the bluish color in his face! all my bumblebees got it! at this time i haven't any crossbreed! and the shrimps are from diferent species, I think. when they born bumble bees have no color and CRS are red. bumblebees gain the black and the white and CRS lose the white!

Good information to distinguish between the two types of shrimp

Thanks

White_Fin wrote: when they born bumble bees have no color and CRS are red.

That's not true. I have bred both the white-head bumblebees and a few other varieties and they all have black and white striped offspring. They are very tiny so you might not see the color right after birth all that easily, but if you look closely with a magnifying glass you'll see it.

Tiger shrimp, on the other hand, hatch without any markings and get the stripes as they grow.