New to me shrimp ID?

jackiomy

jackiomy

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Jul 6, 2008
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I was just at a different than usual LFS and I saw some shrimp I didn't recognize. Not that I am an expert. They were pretty large, ghost shrimp size, and looked like baby bamboo shrimp with a cream colored stripe down their backs and HUGE green eggs on the females. They were a really nice color of brown with a transparent underbelly. Any ideas?
 
I don't think so they were so small but they lookied like they had little pinchers.
 
I am housesitting at my brother's so I don't have a way to upload them. I went and bought 6 of them and when I got home she had put 3, what I think are, Zebra shrimp in the bag. The other difference I can see is that the ones she said are ghost shrimp have beady little black eyes. So now I have 2 new kinds of shrimp. LOL They are cuties and one of them are berried. I have them in a betta bowl with the substrate and water from the original tank that they were nice enough to give me, with an airstone. So these cute little $1.98 shrimp ended up costing me $40.00 dollars. LOL Don't tell the BF.
 
Took some pics with my phone

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yes you can. amanos are the most efficient algae eater out there, also know as yamato shrimp or caridina japonica. Their eggs will hatch into larvae which require brackish water to breed. They are a versatile and peaceful shrimp. The others are bee shrimp, also called crystal blacks or diamond shrimp. none of the species you got can interbreed.
 
msjinkzd said:
yes you can. amanos are the most efficient algae eater out there, also know as yamato shrimp or caridina japonica. Their eggs will hatch into larvae which require brackish water to breed. They are a versatile and peaceful shrimp. The others are bee shrimp, also called crystal blacks or diamond shrimp. none of the species you got can interbreed.
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I got bee shrimp!!:dance::dance:
I got amano shrimp!:dance::dance:
I told her they weren't ghost shrimp:silly:

Thanks Msjinkzd
 
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