I think dull is kind of the point when they're in the wild. No good to be a bright green or yellow shrimpie out there, it's a fish eat shrimp world =/
Shrimp Hybrids
- Thread starter Hollygirl
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actually i would not mind having a tank just for wild shrimps. i think it would look pretty cool
My wife brought me some freshwater shrimp from Hawaii a while back.
They were being sold as a Native sp. in the LFS.
They turned out to be Wild neocaridina sp.
I don't have the link anymore, but my research revealed an article about hobbyists that released them in their freshwater streams and now they are being collected and sold to LFS's for feeders.
A few a baby's later and I started seeing all sorts of really cool traits. Speckled,yellows, red speckles, blue. Then I got some neocaridina sp. from a member here and added those to the same tank. Now I'm getting some with stripes. Kinda looks like a Wild Tiger.
They were being sold as a Native sp. in the LFS.
They turned out to be Wild neocaridina sp.
I don't have the link anymore, but my research revealed an article about hobbyists that released them in their freshwater streams and now they are being collected and sold to LFS's for feeders.
A few a baby's later and I started seeing all sorts of really cool traits. Speckled,yellows, red speckles, blue. Then I got some neocaridina sp. from a member here and added those to the same tank. Now I'm getting some with stripes. Kinda looks like a Wild Tiger.
My wife brought me some freshwater shrimp from Hawaii a while back.
They were being sold as a Native sp. in the LFS.
They turned out to be Wild neocaridina sp.
I don't have the link anymore, but my research revealed an article about hobbyists that released them in their freshwater streams and now they are being collected and sold to LFS's for feeders.
A few a baby's later and I started seeing all sorts of really cool traits. Speckled,yellows, red speckles, blue. Then I got some neocaridina sp. from a member here and added those to the same tank. Now I'm getting some with stripes. Kinda looks like a Wild Tiger.
do you have some pics that you can show us?
It's too bad you can't put reds and blues together and get purples... Wouldn't purple shrimp be awesome? How many wild type do you think we'd get if we tried before we produced a purple hybrid? 1000? 10000? 100000? If we all got together and devoted one tank to it, and shipped likely purple candidates to a central source for further crossing, we could break the code!
Haha, same thing happens with crayfish. I've seen people 1.) try to make hybrids between red P. clarkii and blue P. alleni... you get brownish/red crayfish. And I've seen people 2.) try to make "purple" crayfish from brownish/red P. acutus and blue morph P. acutus, didn't work either. *curses*
Purple crayfish, purple shrimp... someone needs to figure this out soon lol (or someone needs to make nature abide by the rules of art, one or the other)
I think the "wild" versions are interesting too. They might fend for themselves better in a community tank as well. Like Piko1 said you don't want to be glowing green or shimmering yellow in the wild. LOL! Not to handy for survival. Thanks for that link with the pics Piko1.
hey, if snails can get on the purple wagon, why can't crays and shrimp, right? 
I tried to link the wild type neos from AZInverts but something is wrong with that particular link =/ Bill's pics are so good they should be illegal.
I tried to link the wild type neos from AZInverts but something is wrong with that particular link =/ Bill's pics are so good they should be illegal.
hey, if snails can get on the purple wagon, why can't crays and shrimp, right?
I tried to link the wild type neos from AZInverts but something is wrong with that particular link =/ Bill's pics are so good they should be illegal.
there is purple crays i believe..not the whole body covered with purple, but there are parts of them are purple...right?
IDK..some day some one will figure it out. and then make us spend huge amount of money on them...
