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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 8, 2006 17:31:25 GMT
I was wondering if any of you have kept and bred blue neocaridina with the offspring being blue like the parents?
I've seen them for sale but I don't want to bother if the babies look like wild types.
TIA
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 8, 2006 20:48:53 GMT
According to a couple of other sites i've looked at and another board the babies don't have the blue that the parents have. Now I doubt the shrimp are injected....I can't see how they would survive something like that so perhaps they are fed dyed blue food, or eat some sort of food in the wild that makes them blue......I hope they aren't dip dyed before exporting them.  Shame the babies don't colour up blue although i'm sure they would be cute. I could have kept them with my tigers. |
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Post by luvfishies on Apr 9, 2006 3:37:08 GMT
Janet, apparently Crayfish go thru various stages of moults, expressing different colours etc. Could that be the thing going on here with the shrimp? IE the babies come out "wild" but after successive moults, they turn blue? Pop over to www.canadiancrayfish.ca to see what I'm talking about. Some people there talk of their crays being totally different from moult to moult, and having to wait for a moult to happen before they can breed or other things. Kinda confusing to me, but crays and shrimp are sorta related, right? |
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Post by SnailTrail on Apr 9, 2006 14:20:18 GMT
Cheers for the link luvs....I soooo want a crayfish one day. There's a guy who's been keeping these shrimp for a while now and although the offspring are still cute and different in their own way there's no blue.....not even after moulting. I checked with someone here in the Uk too and they also said the same thing....blue adults - non blue offspring. I'm tempted to buy a couple to see what happens but i'm limited in my choices because I don't want hybrids. And I would prefer to get some snowball shrimp to keep with my tigers than the blues. That's if I can ever find snowballs  I'm also after some green shrimp to keep with my cherry shrimp. |
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I'm also after some green shrimp to keep with my cherry shrimp.