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maverick786us

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Can you bank me identity these shrimps? I hope they are non caradino shrimps? Though my tanks is stable but I don’t want to end up buying sensitive caradino shrimpsefb0ba4f-ead4-4ddb-8e9b-2b5e65c1797e.jpeg
 
hypnogogia said:
They are the same species, just a different colour morph. I've also edited the title of your thread. It's not urgent, as in a matter of life of death of livestock.
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Thats ok I created this thread minutes before purchasing them, just in case if they would have turned out to be caradina I wouldn't have bought.

So after bringing them home I took an hour to acclimatize, and then put them in my tank. all of them immediately found their spots except this one, the biggest and fattest of them. He is trying to stay on the top holding the roots of duckweed. Is this shrimp injured or is it a common behavior of some shrimps in a new tank?
 
maverick786us said:
Can you bank me identity these shrimps? I hope they are non caradino shrimps? Though my tanks is stable but I don’t want to end up buying sensitive caradino shrimps
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Pretty sure they are Blue Dream neocaridina but there's alot of cross over with the darker blues. the table below shows the most popular lines.
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maverick786us said:
Thank you are they as hardy as cherry shrimp
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Yep.
maverick786us said:
He is trying to stay on the top holding the roots of duckweed. Is this shrimp injured or is it a common behavior of some shrimps in a new tank?
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Its common behavior, I have neocaridina in all of my tank and there's a couple of shrimp doing this at any given time. Pretty sure its just grazing on the algae/biofilm on the plants roots or there maybe a small food particle trapped against the plants.
 
Thank you. So that brings to my next question. Is it safe to introduce shrimps in a tank that has a bunch of nano fishes, and 2 baby angel fish? That tank has plenty of plants and hiding space
 
I've had my line of them since 2019 and they're still going strong. I should freshen up the gene pool at one point but colours are good. The baby shrimp will get eaten. I'm in the middle of taking the old tank down. I found 40 shrimp in the filter. One of the babies jumped out of the net and into the ada 90p. It didn't make it to the bottom, the tucano tetras snacked on it within seconds. The angelfish when big enough will eat them (the bigger ones). Usually the shrimp outbreed the fish to sustain their population if there's enough hiding space.

I've had the following shrimp eaters in the tank with them over the 6 years:
  • Apistogramma Caucotide (These never actively hunted the shrimp but I did find a shrimp every now and then on the floor outside of the tank)
  • Bolivian Ram (Actively hunted the shrimp, other than the big ones, they were in hiding or specific sections of the tank)
  • Zebra Loach (I've had this fish for 6 years. Initially never bothered the shrimp. In the last two years, I find it occasionally carrying a shrimp around in its mouth like a dog carries a chew toy)
  • Apistogramma Borelli (It didn't hunt my shrimp)
 
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Glass Box Diaries said:
Not sure about angelfish as I don't keep them but I keep a ton of nano fish ad don't have any major problems.
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I wouldn’t worry about nano fish either. I have cherry barbs and glow lights tetra in my shrimp tank and their size is more or less the same as these shrimps. In fact some of my Amano shrimp are bigger than these nano fishes. My other tank where I have 2 baby angle fishes. They are 1 inch in length and height. I never saw them disturbing nano fishes in that tank. But predator instinct is in their blood so I don’t know what they can do if I introduce shrimp in that tank
 
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