Species - hybrid?
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Species - hybrid?
Ok I have had this freshwater shrimp for a while. He came in with my zebras and tigers a while ago . He is much more blue than i have ever seen one so i am wondering if he is a hybrid with a pale blue taiwon or anything
LARGER images here http://www.fish-forums.com/board/viewto ... =7460#7460
LARGER images here http://www.fish-forums.com/board/viewto ... =7460#7460
Last edited by MarcR on Fri Jun 10, 2005 5:24 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Did you know there where blue tiger too
http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.cgi?acti ... &artNo=286
There are even blond tigers! So i guess yours is a blue one.
http://www.wirbellose.de/arten.cgi?acti ... &artNo=286
There are even blond tigers! So i guess yours is a blue one.
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Hi Marc,
Neocaridina (e.g. "Taiwan (pale) blue") and Caridina (e.g. Tiger Shrimp) cannot interbreed. Plus...the so called Taiwan Pale Blue is not even blue under normal lighting. Some shrimp turn blueish when there isn't enough lighting but turn back to their normal, non-blue color in a lighted aquarium.
Yes, once in a while there are blue Tiger Shrimp in batches of normal Tiger Shrimp. The question is if they are naturally blue or just happened to be eating some of the food coloring that some of the so called "blue shrimp" that you see imported sometimes were eating. Those "blue shrimp" never stay blue for long and if they do (I had those too) their offspring are never blue but normal "wild type" color again.
Take care,
Mustafa
Neocaridina (e.g. "Taiwan (pale) blue") and Caridina (e.g. Tiger Shrimp) cannot interbreed. Plus...the so called Taiwan Pale Blue is not even blue under normal lighting. Some shrimp turn blueish when there isn't enough lighting but turn back to their normal, non-blue color in a lighted aquarium.
Yes, once in a while there are blue Tiger Shrimp in batches of normal Tiger Shrimp. The question is if they are naturally blue or just happened to be eating some of the food coloring that some of the so called "blue shrimp" that you see imported sometimes were eating. Those "blue shrimp" never stay blue for long and if they do (I had those too) their offspring are never blue but normal "wild type" color again.
Take care,
Mustafa
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I have some of these blue specimens as well, and they've maintained their color for as long as I've had them (several months now). If there's a dietary coloring that is occurring, I am certainly not the one giving it to them. They survive on java moss and algae pellets. I have too many tigers in the same tank, so it would be hard for me to separate them out and say whether or not the blue can be bred. That would involve a far greater space than I have.Mustafa wrote: Yes, once in a while there are blue Tiger Shrimp in batches of normal Tiger Shrimp. The question is if they are naturally blue or just happened to be eating some of the food coloring that some of the so called "blue shrimp" that you see imported sometimes were eating. Those "blue shrimp" never stay blue for long and if they do (I had those too) their offspring are never blue but normal "wild type" color again.