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what shrimp is this?

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:31 am
by kross
these came along with a bag of supposingly 100 malayans that i bought from a lfs..... turned out that i got around 60pcs of malayan and the rest are these.... :?

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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:31 am
by Polypterus
Hello !
You are sure, that it's not the male one and the female one are having the colour ?
Florian

Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 5:08 pm
by TKD
Hi,

It it me or do they look like washed out cherries... :?

TKD

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:34 pm
by Mustafa
These shrimp are not Red Cherries. The above shrimp is female and the shrimp below is a male (or an immature female). No idea what they are...never seen them before. They are most likely some type of Caridina native to your area.

Re: what shrimp is this?

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 5:30 pm
by Ljung
kross wrote:these came along with a bag of supposingly 100 malayans that i bought from a lfs..... turned out that i got around 60pcs of malayan and the rest are these.... :?
we found a new species?
can name as krosshrimp? :lol:

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 6:34 pm
by gnome
Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!!! This looks like the "odd" specimen I found on Sunday! I visited the LFS where I usually get my shrimp and I looked in their "algae-eating shrimp" container (which was littered with a lot of dead beasties) and saw this ONE shrimp that looked neither like a Malayan nor an Amano. I'd never even seen it in photos, so I decided to take it. Incidentally, they didn't even charge me for it.

Mine had that goofy bug-eyed look to it indicative of a male :lol: . JK. But yeah - mine resembles the one in the male photo. At first I thought it might be a really small "red spotted shrimp" but it didn't have the long arm and big pincers. In fact, the pincers are even smaller than what I see on an Amano shrimp of the same size.

This is cool. I hope it gets identified soon so we know what we have. In the photo of the male, is that a bloodworm it's eating?

-Naomi