a little while a go me and my friend were looking at the offspring of his RCS and we saw a very odd transparent white one with red eyes. Unfortunately it died 2 days later before I tot a chance to photograph or study its behavior but it seemed odd. I don't know maybe it was a albino or a cross breed or something.
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well it can't be a crossbreed if your friend doesn't have any other neocaridinia shrimp in that tank. Albino sounds like the best bet. Anytime you have a species strain that has been heavily inbred to reinforce just one characteristic, red color in this case, you have a higher likelihood of genetic failures. Most of them are not visible, relating to inadequacies of internal organs or metabolic processes. This one just happened to be conspicuously visible.
Of course if you/your friend got several of these albinos and they were healthy enough to live to breeding age and breed true you would have another new strain on your hands and probably become semi-wealthy. of course those would be even MORE genetically fragile coming from an even smaller gene pool with less diversity, but such is the result of inbreeding.
Of course if you/your friend got several of these albinos and they were healthy enough to live to breeding age and breed true you would have another new strain on your hands and probably become semi-wealthy. of course those would be even MORE genetically fragile coming from an even smaller gene pool with less diversity, but such is the result of inbreeding.
Dwarf shrimp have such a small blood supply that I doubt that a hemorrhage or hematoma would be visible beneath it's carapace. I'm also of the opinion that the shrimp was in distress. Lack of color, and milky translucence, in colorful shrimp is a clear sign of stress (from illness or environmental problems). The fact that it died soon after being spotted does not surprise me in the least. From what I've personally experienced, once a shrimp displays such signs of stress they're most likely going to die. I'd tell your friend to keep an eye out for more.