Amano Shrimp Look Alike ?
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 1:26 pm
This will be a long post but please read it, as I really need an answer.
Last fall I bought 6 orange shrimp on line and later 2 more at my local fish store. 2 of the orange shrimp that I got online were clear in color when I got them. One since colored up some. He is still lighter colored but obviously an orange shrimp. The other never did and since grew larger then the orange shrimp. He/she looks almost like an Amano shrimp but is not one. She looks like a female but is the size of my male Amano. And the stripe down the back is wider and more pronouced. Does anyone know the name of a shrimp that is similar looking to an Amano shrimp?
I posted a threat on this forum not too long ago about my CRS shrimplets disappearing. I thought it might be a water problem as they never seemed to live longer then 2 days even so the adults are doing great and are breeding all the time.
The tank is a 10 gal with 10 CRS, 2 RCS (males), 7 orange shrimp and the odd shrimp. I currently have CRS shrimplets again and once more there were less every day.
2 days ago I feed shrimp wafers and all adult shrimp came over to the feeding area to dine. The only adult that did not show up was the odd shrimp. She was zipping all over the tank and I thought she might be sick, so I spent some time watching her. At one point she got close to the feeding shrimp and one CRS female left the group and viciously attacked the odd shrimp. I have removed this shrimp the same night and she is now in a tank with 3 Amano shrimp and they get along well. I was wondering what this shrimp might be. I read before that some people claim to have bred Amanos is strictly freshwater (not possible) and I think I might have one of those Amano look-a-likes.
Could this shrimp have been dining on my CRS shrimplets? I still have 3 of them left now and they hatched 6 days ago, longest I had any survive so far.
On another note I have done a water change when I first saw new CRS shrimplets to make sure the ammonia is as low as possible. I checked the water in the bucket with a magnifying glass to make sure I would not toss out any CRS shrimplets by mistake. What I found instead was one 2 mm clear shrimp. This may mean that my orange shrimp are breeding and the little ones have survived or this odd shrimp can cross bread with either CRS or RCS (doubtful due to the clear color) or the orange shrimp. It was so tiny and I have looked inside the tank with the magnifying glass but could not locate any more. But this 10 gal is stuffed full of java moss and I have some water bugs in the tank so any of those clear shrimplets would be hard to spot. But time will tell. But it definitely was a tiny clear colored shrimp.
Last fall I bought 6 orange shrimp on line and later 2 more at my local fish store. 2 of the orange shrimp that I got online were clear in color when I got them. One since colored up some. He is still lighter colored but obviously an orange shrimp. The other never did and since grew larger then the orange shrimp. He/she looks almost like an Amano shrimp but is not one. She looks like a female but is the size of my male Amano. And the stripe down the back is wider and more pronouced. Does anyone know the name of a shrimp that is similar looking to an Amano shrimp?
I posted a threat on this forum not too long ago about my CRS shrimplets disappearing. I thought it might be a water problem as they never seemed to live longer then 2 days even so the adults are doing great and are breeding all the time.
The tank is a 10 gal with 10 CRS, 2 RCS (males), 7 orange shrimp and the odd shrimp. I currently have CRS shrimplets again and once more there were less every day.
2 days ago I feed shrimp wafers and all adult shrimp came over to the feeding area to dine. The only adult that did not show up was the odd shrimp. She was zipping all over the tank and I thought she might be sick, so I spent some time watching her. At one point she got close to the feeding shrimp and one CRS female left the group and viciously attacked the odd shrimp. I have removed this shrimp the same night and she is now in a tank with 3 Amano shrimp and they get along well. I was wondering what this shrimp might be. I read before that some people claim to have bred Amanos is strictly freshwater (not possible) and I think I might have one of those Amano look-a-likes.
Could this shrimp have been dining on my CRS shrimplets? I still have 3 of them left now and they hatched 6 days ago, longest I had any survive so far.
On another note I have done a water change when I first saw new CRS shrimplets to make sure the ammonia is as low as possible. I checked the water in the bucket with a magnifying glass to make sure I would not toss out any CRS shrimplets by mistake. What I found instead was one 2 mm clear shrimp. This may mean that my orange shrimp are breeding and the little ones have survived or this odd shrimp can cross bread with either CRS or RCS (doubtful due to the clear color) or the orange shrimp. It was so tiny and I have looked inside the tank with the magnifying glass but could not locate any more. But this 10 gal is stuffed full of java moss and I have some water bugs in the tank so any of those clear shrimplets would be hard to spot. But time will tell. But it definitely was a tiny clear colored shrimp.
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