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Ok , after many many research and after following the change mustafa made in the species varieties, i have a question who start bugging me a bit.

Do anybody have a Pics, desc or anything about the Real C. babaulti ?

Nope. As far as I know, there is no picture of the "real" C. babaulti in existence (at least not publicly). When I say "real" C. babaulti I am talking about the shrimp that was described about maybe 100 years ago. The truth of the matter is that there might not be a "real C. babaulti" as this species has a very wide range and seems to include populations/subspecies that not only differ in outward appearance but also in number of larval stages, i.e. life cycle. Hopefully someone will get around to revising the whole shrimp-scientific-name mess that has been sitting unrevised since the beginning of time. Then, you might or might not end up with a species that is called C. babaulti.

For our purposes, anything you see described as "Caridina babaulti" on the internet (and people conveniently leave out the "cf." part) is NOT C. babaulti. or most likely not C. babaulti (if the animal in the picture has not been identified properly yet).

thanks
exactly what i thougth.