Pregnant shrimp! with pictures.
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The duckweed - YES! I love it, I think it's cute, most think it is a pest plant (so I've heard). The only bad thing is if I need to stick my hand in there, it sticks all over me, and it starts to swirl down into the tank if I don't keep my water level high enough.
My LFS wants 2.99 for a handful, though I think it depends on who you talk to, there's one older guy there who will give it away. The shrimp haven't bothered it much (they do swim up to the top sometimes and grab a piece and float down with it, but then they let go) but that's funny about the guppies.
Sad news: One of the mom shrimps (the dark blue/purple one) died, last weekend I think. The other is perfectly normal and I have a bumper crop of babies too. It makes me sad though, I had her about two weeks, then she started to turn red, then we found her flopped over in front of the coconut. =\
The babies are everywhere, they're getting absolutely huge. I posted a pic earlier in the week and will keep posting! I can tell that some of them are slightly different colored.
My LFS wants 2.99 for a handful, though I think it depends on who you talk to, there's one older guy there who will give it away. The shrimp haven't bothered it much (they do swim up to the top sometimes and grab a piece and float down with it, but then they let go) but that's funny about the guppies.
Sad news: One of the mom shrimps (the dark blue/purple one) died, last weekend I think. The other is perfectly normal and I have a bumper crop of babies too. It makes me sad though, I had her about two weeks, then she started to turn red, then we found her flopped over in front of the coconut. =\
The babies are everywhere, they're getting absolutely huge. I posted a pic earlier in the week and will keep posting! I can tell that some of them are slightly different colored.
I'm new here, first post, yay me 
I have several blackberry shrimp in my tank, after poking around the internet the only other shrimp I could find that was close was the Black Tiger Shrimp.
Basically they selectively bread normal tigershrimp for larger stripes until eventually it was completely black with orange eyes. The "blackberry" shrimp is the exact same morph but without the orange eyes. Caridina cantonensis sp. "Black Tiger"
It is possible it could be Neocaridina Heteropoda var black but there is absolutely no information (in english) about this species. They do not appear to be larger than my Cherries so I'm thinking it more likely they are neo than caridina but I havent kept shrimp long enough to be certain.
This bugged the hell out of me too, and I havent seen the answer often so I'm sharing where I can!
I have several blackberry shrimp in my tank, after poking around the internet the only other shrimp I could find that was close was the Black Tiger Shrimp.
Basically they selectively bread normal tigershrimp for larger stripes until eventually it was completely black with orange eyes. The "blackberry" shrimp is the exact same morph but without the orange eyes. Caridina cantonensis sp. "Black Tiger"
It is possible it could be Neocaridina Heteropoda var black but there is absolutely no information (in english) about this species. They do not appear to be larger than my Cherries so I'm thinking it more likely they are neo than caridina but I havent kept shrimp long enough to be certain.
This bugged the hell out of me too, and I havent seen the answer often so I'm sharing where I can!
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My Petco has nothing.
Just as a reference.... Ghost Shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus around here) don't need a brackish water development period. They grow in land locked freshwater throughout the area. Sold as feeders 12 for a buck.
I think the biggest problem is that the larvae have insufficient food and are killed by filters... even with sponge prefilters.
Just as a reference.... Ghost Shrimp (Palaemonetes paludosus around here) don't need a brackish water development period. They grow in land locked freshwater throughout the area. Sold as feeders 12 for a buck.
I think the biggest problem is that the larvae have insufficient food and are killed by filters... even with sponge prefilters.
Planet Inverts says Ghost shrimp do not need brackish water to reproduce. I have had Ghost shrimp for awhile now and always have a prego female. I do not have a ton of babys,but I do have more than I started with and some very small ones too. They are either breeding in my freshwater tank or someone keeps adding small ones.
