So where you the winner?
There's got to be another source for these shrimp somewhere.
A shrimp with red, white and blue coloration on the legs and it's not something everyone is clamoring for?
anyone seen these shrimp before?
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So where you the winner?
There's got to be another source for these shrimp somewhere.
A shrimp with red, white and blue coloration on the legs and it's not something everyone is clamoring for?
Great! I can't wait to see these. Wonder if the seller will ship you some males... His auction listed a breeder culture of 12 females (if memory serves). I previously asked him what the males of this species look like (aka: do they get crazy pinchers like the guy in my avatar) and the seller flaked on me. I thought it was an easy enough question. Now I'm really excited that a member got their hands on some.
Post up when they arrive!
Post up when they arrive!
Received the shrimp yesterday. Tried to get a photo but couldn't; they are clear as glass and about an inch & 1/2. If I remember correctly the seller said these were young and color shows up as they mature. They were berried and it sure looks like there's a male or 2. As soon as I can will post pictures.
The photo in the auction clearly depicted a Palaemon and reverse image search revealed that the pic is in fact a resized version of this image of P. elegans, a European coastal species common in tide pools. I've tried to contact the seller about the origins of these shrimp (wild caught in FL, international trade) and received no reply. I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that this was just a best approximation of what his adult animals actually look like.
I don't think these are actual P. elegans -- this has to be some other kind of palaemonid shrimp. If they're local, native Palaemon, they'll quite likely survive in freshwater but I highly doubt they'll successfully recruit there. (That, however, is the norm for P. paucidens from East Asia -- which more or less fits the description and would be exciting to have in the North American hobby, since they're apparently quite easy to rear in captivity).
Two other alternatives: they're some kind of Palaemonetes (conceivably also locally-caught) that's more colorful than your run-of-the-mill P. paludosus ghost shrimp, or some other kind of freshwater palaemonid with abbreviated larval development (would almost certainly have to be imported in that case, unless we're dealing with an undocumented landlocked population -- all U.S. Macrobrachium, so far as we know, are amphidromous). Most of his auctions, for what it's worth, are of native animals.
I'm not going to impugn the honesty of the seller, since I haven't seen the animals (or seen his responses to my questions), but there's something a little strange about all this. Though these animals are stated to produce lots of fry regardless of salinity (presumably even in fw), nothing's said about larval survival rates in fw ... hopefully I'm reading too much into this and they're something new and interesting that function like P. paucidens.
I don't think these are actual P. elegans -- this has to be some other kind of palaemonid shrimp. If they're local, native Palaemon, they'll quite likely survive in freshwater but I highly doubt they'll successfully recruit there. (That, however, is the norm for P. paucidens from East Asia -- which more or less fits the description and would be exciting to have in the North American hobby, since they're apparently quite easy to rear in captivity).
Two other alternatives: they're some kind of Palaemonetes (conceivably also locally-caught) that's more colorful than your run-of-the-mill P. paludosus ghost shrimp, or some other kind of freshwater palaemonid with abbreviated larval development (would almost certainly have to be imported in that case, unless we're dealing with an undocumented landlocked population -- all U.S. Macrobrachium, so far as we know, are amphidromous). Most of his auctions, for what it's worth, are of native animals.
I'm not going to impugn the honesty of the seller, since I haven't seen the animals (or seen his responses to my questions), but there's something a little strange about all this. Though these animals are stated to produce lots of fry regardless of salinity (presumably even in fw), nothing's said about larval survival rates in fw ... hopefully I'm reading too much into this and they're something new and interesting that function like P. paucidens.
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