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Keeping Ninja Shrimp
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 6:33 am
by kross
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.
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:34 am
by retardo
where r u located? i haven't heard of it selling outside of Japan...
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 4:53 pm
by Ljung
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
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:46 am
by kross
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....
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:18 pm
by samurai
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.
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:46 pm
by retardo
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!
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2005 6:23 pm
by thgng
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 ?
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:49 am
by elements
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..
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:44 am
by hwchoy
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.
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:37 pm
by Mustafa
hwchoy wrote:what on earth is a ninja shrimp?
Look in my Shrimp Varieties page. It's Caridina serratirostris from Japan.
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:37 pm
by TKD
It's a shrimp that you REALLY dont want to make mad.
TKD
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 8:31 pm
by kross
TKD wrote:It's a shrimp that you REALLY dont want to make mad.
TKD
why?
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 10:05 pm
by TKD
Because it is a NINJA
TKD
Posted: Mon Feb 14, 2005 11:09 pm
by hwchoy
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.
Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:05 am
by Mustafa
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