Tiger shrimp cross breeding???

Green caridina they could. Most typically yellow shrimp are neocaridina unless you are talking about the dwarf babaulti which comein a range of colors. The species should not be housed together
 
I know this thread a month old but I wanted to chime in. I have kept tiger shrimps with green shrimps in the past and I never had them crossbreed. Even though they are both caridina, they look very different in shape. Tigers are Cantonensis and the greens I kept them with were Babaulti. I kept them together for a little over a year and they each kept having babies. Only major problem I had was that its hard to tell the babies apart when they are 1/8 and under but the tigers grow way faster then the greens. And the greens have the tiniest babies I have seen from dwarf shrimps.

Since I started the dwarf shrimp hobby back in 2004 I have made many mistakes and learned alot of things the hard way. For instance tigers and crs will for sure crossbreed and it didn't take them very long to mix it up. Tough lesson learned back in 2005. I'm thinking of setting up another tank with both tigers and greens again just to see if it was a nothing more then a lucky fluke. I don't think they will cause right now I have a few bumble bees (Cantonensis I believe) with some greens (Babaulti) and so far no crossbreeding.

They are together cause I have no choice due to space limitations. Greens have greens and Bumble bees have bumble bees. There are other Caridinas that won't crossbreed with each others... but so far almost every Neocaridina will crossbreed with other Neocaridina.

For the record I have never sold nor given any crossbreed shrimps away. They have gone into my 125g planted tank where CPDs and Cardinal Tetras take care of 90% of any babies shrimps that are bred there. Also I don't encourage anyone to crossbreed shrimps.
 
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Scipio said:
I know this thread a month old but I wanted to chime in. I have kept tiger shrimps with green shrimps in the past and I never had them crossbreed. Even though they are both caridina, they look very different in shape. Tigers are Cantonensis and the greens I kept them with were Babaulti. I kept them together for a little over a year and they each kept having babies. Only major problem I had was that its hard to tell the babies apart when they are 1/8 and under but the tigers grow way faster then the greens. And the greens have the tiniest babies I have seen from dwarf shrimps.

Since I started the dwarf shrimp hobby back in 2004 I have made many mistakes and learned alot of things the hard way. For instance tigers and crs will for sure crossbreed and it didn't take them very long to mix it up. Tough lesson learned back in 2005. I'm thinking of setting up another tank with both tigers and greens again just to see if it was a nothing more then a lucky fluke. I don't think they will cause right now I have a few bumble bees (Cantonensis I believe) with some greens (Babaulti) and so far no crossbreeding.

They are together cause I have no choice due to space limitations. Greens have greens and Bumble bees have bumble bees. There are other Caridinas that won't crossbreed with each others... but so far almost every Neocaridina will crossbreed with other Neocaridina.

For the record I have never sold nor given any crossbreed shrimps away. They have gone into my 125g planted tank where CPDs and Cardinal Tetras take care of 90% of any babies shrimps that are bred there. Also I don't encourage anyone to crossbreed shrimps.
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I am happy to hear this. I am hoping to set up a few 2.5g tanks to test this to update some of the common misconceptions that NO caridina can go with any other high order caridina.

I doubt as well that the indian shrimp will hybridize with the asians, but am glad ot hear someone else is experiencing this and has tested it out.
 
Hmm, i may just stick my blue tigers in with my greens. Greens are sooooo slow growing, so its easy to house them with other shrimp. Msjinxed you will have to tell me how that goes. Or i could jump in too and do a nano. :P Maybe you will get lucky, and get green tigers? haha, just kidding! The only issue i see with those two is, greens like hard water, and tigers like soft.
 
I have my greens (Babaulti) right now in kinda soft water and they are breeding well, slow to grow but well. They are actually doing better now then when I had them in a hard water with a PH of 7.8.

In my 26g long where I keep my green (Babaulti) the PH is 6.8-7.0 GH 9, KH 0-1. I'm going be adding 6 blue tigers in there tonight that I removed from my 10g that had a ph spike in there and lost 8 BTs, not sure what caused it yet. The PH went up to 7.4 and the BT came from a 6.5 PH.

I have some more BTs coming in on Thursday from another source and the seller has the BTs in a PH of 7.3. I'm going to keep those in the 10g with the 7.4 PH and get more BTs from the first group and place them in my 26g long with the Greens. I hope those 6 remaining BTs make it.
 
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