Would like an id for this shrimp

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:24 pm

Had a look through the species list to try and identify this guy. The shrimp was supposed to be a cherry but doesn’t seem to be, quite different in look and behaviour, I rarely see it its quite shy hides most of the time and only comes out after lights out. If anyone knows the species I would be very thankful.

Great info on the site everyone
Thanks
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Newjohn · Post by **Newjohn** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:51 am

Hi Peter

Just a couple of questions
How long has it been in your tank ?

Was this purchased for your LPS ? or off of a auction site ?

John

justrick · Post by **justrick** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 7:40 am

Hi Peter,

I can't say with 100% cetainty but it looks like a red cherry to me. I recently received a shipment of them and they were white to grayish at first. It took about 3 days for the color to start returning and now after a week the cherries (specially the females, my males look like the pic above) have reddened up nicely.

Post by **Mustafa** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:21 am

Rick, although it is not a formal rule here (yet), I have tried to keep the forum as clear as possible from pure speculation and wild guessing and I would like to leave it that way. Do you notice that I have not said anything in this thread? Why? Because I don't know. If I don't know I don't say anything, I don't try to guess. John is doing the only right thing in this situation by asking further questions about the origin of the shrimp etc...etc.

It is more than 100% clear that the shrimp is not just a "pale" red cherry shrimp. Even stressed out, newly shipped red cherry shrimp don't look like that. Since the shrimp on the picture *is*, as a matter of fact, extremely stressed out (probably going to leave this world soon) and the camera angle is from below, I can't even tell for sure if it's a Neocaridina sp. at all.

A lot of shrimp keepers, especially beginners, have trouble telling most shrimp species apart, so if you ask 100 people what a given "mystery" shrimp is, you might just get 100 different answers (or close to it) because people like to guess based on absolutely nothing but "I think it looks like this...but I'm not sure."

The bottom line is, that it's always a good policy in this forum to base one's posts on 1. research 2. actual experience, preferably over a longer period of time than just a few days, weeks or months. This way the quality of information in the forum will be kept up and not cluttered by lots of repetition and wild guesses based on nothing substantial.

Just a heads up.

justrick · Post by **justrick** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:40 am

Thanks for the heads up Mustafa. Will remember that in the future.

Peter · Post by **Peter** » Thu Apr 12, 2007 6:41 pm

Thanks for the feedback and attempts to help. I have had the shrimp nearly three months. I don’t see much of it as it lives in a dark corner of the tank under some wood. I got it from an LPS (LFS) with five other shrimp all of which are cherries, they think their dealer got the shrimp from Israel. Maybe the shrimp looks stressed due to the LED flash lamp I was using to get the pic. I took the pic a couple of weeks ago, I shone an aquarium light on the tank tonight to get these pics. The shrimp is smaller than the bumblebee, crystal reds and cherries it lives with, it carries its body close to the substrate and moves faster than the other shrimp. I would like to know if there is a chance of hybrids with the three other species in the tank, it has not bred with any of them as far as I can see nor has had eggs, by the shape it is likely to be male (catching it would involve a fair bit of disruption). If I knew the species I would try and get it a few companions.
Hope these pics are better they were the best I could manage. Thank you all very much.