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There are now Blue Bee Shrimp showing up for sale and claiming to be naturally caught wild with this coloring from an "unstable population" in China... Is this for real or? Anyone know anything at all about them? Freshwater breeders?

Sure is an interesting Shrimp....

Hi southerndesert

These are the real deal.

The are not blue, but more of a blackish blue. If they are happy there are very dark.

I was not able to get any young from them and it was very hard to see the size of eggs since they were such a dark color.
Similar to a Hiher Grade CRS.

John

Thank you Newjohn,

I was toying with the idea of trying to get them to breed as they are very beautiful shrimps (to me anyway)

There seems to be very little information anywhere that I can find about water parameters and or breeding of this shrimp.

Bill

Okay, I have been breeding blue bee shrimp for a while. Personally, they are smaller than normal bee shrimp. After researching them for a while, I was informed that they are a seperate population of bee shrimp and not a mutation. Secondly, they are blue. There are brown ones that end up in the bunch, but the blues are definately blue. I just cull the browns out. As far as I know, I seem to be the only one culling out the browns because they are still so pricey. I have been trying to locate breeders to add bloodline, and the only one I have found in the US is one on Aquabid.com, where my order of 10 had a total of 1 nice blue and 2 fairly blue, and the rest got fed to the puffer fish. I am not worried about trying to breed for Grades...yet, for the simple fact that my breeding population needs much more new blood to avoid inbreeding and the best I would get is a grade A shrimp with a lot of other genetic problems. I did do test breeding to see if it was possibly bred to orange-eyed blue tigers to get the color from the tigers, but after breeding the babies from the first breeding back, the only ones that had blue also had orange eyes. So those went to the puffers too. The reason I think people are ending up with brown babies is because they are breeding them to either crystal black shrimp, or possibly golden shrimp. I am not quite sure, but I am not going to waste time crossing them with another shrimp only to feed them to the puffers. Hope this helps.