found and bought a handful of these from a lfs; thought they look pretty neat. from singapore if i remember correctly, and behave very much like amano shrimps. just wanna share them with you.
cool shrimp
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Excellent photo. They are Bumblebee shrimp. The black-banded form is not seen often often here. Also brownish and red-banded forms around. IME they are better scavengers than algae eaters, but they are charming cleaning crew. They also breed easily in tanks (if the young are not with predators), for more info , see:
http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Shrimp/
http://www.franksaquarium.com/shrimporderform.htm
http://www.thekrib.com/Fish/Shrimp/
http://www.franksaquarium.com/shrimporderform.htm
Wish I could find some of those around here.. Only get amano and red cherry. Beautiful pics of the shrimp
marc
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thanks. i bought 8 of them for 2.50 each, and split them among my 10g and 20g.
RTR, nice sites. yes, i've seen the red bands also, but found the black version more striking. i'm not really into red shrimps because they look too "cooked" for me, but with the exception of red cherry shrimps. a friend of mine has a crew of them and they look stunning! they're about $5 a piece over here though.
oh, and one of those sites say bumble bee shrimps live up to about 1.5 years? that's it?! shoot.
RTR, nice sites. yes, i've seen the red bands also, but found the black version more striking. i'm not really into red shrimps because they look too "cooked" for me, but with the exception of red cherry shrimps. a friend of mine has a crew of them and they look stunning! they're about $5 a piece over here though.
oh, and one of those sites say bumble bee shrimps live up to about 1.5 years? that's it?! shoot.
Red Cherry/Cherry Red seem not available in the DC/Balto. area right now. I'm waiting for good stocks as I have not yet kept them.
The Bumblebees are shorter-lived than Amanos, but they do breed. In a refugium they should sustain or increase their population. Most likely strongly increase the numbers.
The Bumblebees are shorter-lived than Amanos, but they do breed. In a refugium they should sustain or increase their population. Most likely strongly increase the numbers.
If anyone find them in the illinois 60088 area let me know. I could use a few dozen
marc
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marc
Http://www.Aquatic-store.com
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I had a dream the other night about finding these guys...bumble bee and then cherry red shrimp. I was extatic...untill I woke up and realised it was just a dream....
I wish I could find them in my area, Great Lakes-Ottawa....I've only just this year been able to find Amino shrimp.
*sigh*
Those are great shrimp nvision! and great pics too! What kinda camera is it you took those with? *is coveting a digital camera badly...*
I wish I could find them in my area, Great Lakes-Ottawa....I've only just this year been able to find Amino shrimp.
*sigh*
Those are great shrimp nvision! and great pics too! What kinda camera is it you took those with? *is coveting a digital camera badly...*
hey don't you just hate those dreams? 
i've taken the photos with the canon s40, a very capable camera which produces pretty good exposures under dim lighting. what's even better would be the canon g2, which can accommodate third party telescopic and macro lenses. i've seen some AMAZING macro shots with that machine. very envious...
i've taken the photos with the canon s40, a very capable camera which produces pretty good exposures under dim lighting. what's even better would be the canon g2, which can accommodate third party telescopic and macro lenses. i've seen some AMAZING macro shots with that machine. very envious...
Actually Aquarium Center in Randallstown had some. They have
4 - 6 different kinds of freshwater shrimp.