Keeping Ninja Shrimp

kross · Post by **kross** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:33 am

anyone has experience in keeping this shrimp? is it as hardy as cherries or as fragile as bee/crs? what is the required water parameters?
saw a lfs selling it.... nice looking but pretty expensive.

retardo · Post by **retardo** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:34 am

where r u located? i haven't heard of it selling outside of Japan...

Ljung · Post by **Ljung** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:53 pm

retardo wrote:where r u located? i haven't heard of it selling outside of Japan...

so u have heard of it now...

bet its expensive if just introduced in market outside japan

kross · Post by **kross** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:46 am

retardo wrote:where r u located? i haven't heard of it selling outside of Japan...

located in hot and humid singapore....

i think there is a sudden surge in shrimp keepers in this little island now....

samurai · Post by **samurai** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:18 pm

kross wrote:
retardo wrote:where r u located? i haven't heard of it selling outside of Japan...
located in hot and humid singapore....
i think there is a sudden surge in shrimp keepers in this little island now....

Which LFS did you saw them? I want to get some ASAP.

retardo · Post by **retardo** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:46 pm

must be nice to be located in Sg, not so far from Japan. i must admit i am quite jealous. let's get some ninjas into the states!

thgng · Post by **thgng** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:23 pm

Hi Kross,

I'm interested in the Ninja shrimp too !

My Black shrimp and Malayan shrimp changed it's colour from black to brown.
Nothing as spectacular as the Ninja I suppose.

Could you give me the location to the fish store ? Or did you import them personally ?

elements · Post by **elements** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:49 am

saw tat ninja shrimps too..nice but rather expensive to buy it..
but saw one guy snapping up 10 pieces of it...

so far i guess tat's the only LFS in spore selling it..

hwchoy · Post by **hwchoy** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:44 am

what on earth is a ninja shrimp?

anyway there has been a shrimp-craze since two years back when we started mass-ordering tiger shrimps (with lovely orange head and tail), we paid S$2.50 each and minimum order of 50 pcs.

Post by **Mustafa** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:37 pm

hwchoy wrote:what on earth is a ninja shrimp?

Look in my Shrimp Varieties page. It's Caridina serratirostris from Japan.

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:37 pm

It's a shrimp that you REALLY dont want to make mad.

TKD

kross · Post by **kross** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:31 pm

TKD wrote:It's a shrimp that you REALLY dont want to make mad.

TKD

why?

TKD · Post by **TKD** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:05 pm

Because it is a NINJA

TKD

hwchoy · Post by **hwchoy** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:09 pm

Mustafa wrote:
hwchoy wrote:what on earth is a ninja shrimp?
Look in my Shrimp Varieties page. It's Caridina serratirostris from Japan.

but C. serratirostris is not exclusive to Japan. I'll go check the distribution tonight.

Post by **Mustafa** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:05 am

hwchoy wrote: but C. serratirostris is not exclusive to Japan. I'll go check the distribution tonight.

No, it's not exclusive to Japan. It actually (supposedly) has a very wide distribution in Asia, which should include Singapore and most of Souteast asia. It also occurs on most Pacific Islands. The really colorful ones you see are usually from Japan. The question is if all the C. serratirostris are that colorful or just some local varieties. The other question is if all the C. serratirostris are *really* C. serratirostris. There has not been a revision in Caridina for a *very* long time.

Mustafa