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Hi all, sorry for making this my first post. I'm somewhat new to shrimp in aquariums so I don't have much advice to offer really. I've been lurking for a while trying to identify what kind of shrimp I have in one of my tanks. I managed to get a picture or two, maybe you guys can advise me.

I bought 5 shrimp labelled as "freshwater shrimp" after checking they did not have long claws so they wouldn't attack my fish. Over time they've grown a bit and are now about an inch long.

One of them is this colour now.


At least 3 of the others are more transparent like this.


There was one that had a brown tint to it but I haven't seen it in a while.

To me they don't look quite like any of the ones listed in "Shrimp Varieties", but they may just be a variant of one ? I don't know that much about them. That is why I am here to learn.

If there is any further information I can provide to help with the ID, please ask and I shall endeavour to do so.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Glod.

Hi glod,

The first one looks like one of these:
http://www.petshrimp.com/snowballshrimpwild.html

The other pic looks like a Caridina sp. I have no idea as to witch species though.

TKD

I did have some kind of wrigglies which I thought were shrimp offspring, but they dissappeared after a few days so I guessed they need brackish to grow ?

I assume if I treat them like the snowballs I won't be far off the mark re: feeding and general care ?

The 2nd picture looks more like a Caridina sp., possibly a Caridina cf. babaulti (Green shrimp) or the "Rainbow" shrimp. The 1st picture is hard to tell but if you can take it at a different angle, it would be easier to identify.

I would agree with Kenshin.

They both look like, what I have received as "Green", "Rainbow", "Black Midget".

The Great Generic Name for imported Shrimp.

John

I did have some kind of wrigglies which I thought were shrimp offspring, but they dissappeared after a few days so I guessed they need brackish to grow ?

Did you see your shrimp berried (carrying eggs)? If not then the wrigglies most likely were copepods, harmless organisms that appear when overfeeding.

I'll see if I can get another pic of the grey one. Haven't actually seen it in a couple of days tho. The tank is heavily planted, it's easy to not see them for a week or more at a time. There are only 5 shrimp in there, I often wonder if I should have got a few more at the time but I wanted to leave stocking for some fish too.

As for seeing them carrying eggs, I did not see that, so can't be sure that's what the wrigglies were

It may take a few days to get a decent picture, but I shall try. thanks for the help so far.

Ok, sorry it took so long. The pics are not as good as some I have seen on here but I can't seem to get them any clearer. Appologies for all these pics but I thought it best to provide as much data as possible.

These were all bought at the same time from the same tank so should be the same species ? These are the ones I would like to Identify.


















And this is a pic of what I think an Amano should look like (from my community tank)



Thanks again for any help with the ID.

It looks like a lot of people are trying to id this shrimp . The following link is a thred started by zapisto:

viewtopic.php?t=2344

I came across another site that basically called this shrimp a green red tail shrimp (which is a shrimp that I thought I was getting). Don't ask me why they call it this, I'm guessing it's just a name. I'm looking for where I saw this, but so far, no good.

dam, shrimp ID is tough, they look like greens that I had some time ago but of course I don't what the hell they really were either! got them from the aquarium center in baltimore MD, those guys have a lot of shrimp varities but don't like us don't always know what they have

You have (at least) two different species in your pictures. One of them could very well be a whitebanded shrimp (see shrimp varieties page), although there are other shrimp with a similar back pattern. The other species could be a related shrimp, but I am not sure. There are quite a few shrimp from India with similar patterns and many of them might actually be closely related.