identify this shrimp!

[trevorhoang]

i was at IPU and saw a blackis bluish shrimp and bought him for the price of a cherry shrimp. i believe it is a mutated cherry but not too sure. what do you guys think?

[arash53]

Is it like this ?

[BelieveInBlue]

Ah yes, that mystery shrimp... I did a bit of research and I believe what you're looking at is a blue tiger shrimp: Caridina sp cf cantonensis. Blue Tiger Shrimp .:. Caridina cantonensis sp. "Blue Tiger" .:. Freshwater Aquarium Shrimp Species Information Page

Worth quite a shiny penny from what I've read, so take good care of the guy And they'll cross breed with CRS/CBS/tiger shrimp.

[trevorhoang]

Is it like this ?

my mystery shrimp is darker but his belly area shows a blue tint

[trevorhoang]

Ah yes, that mystery shrimp... I did a bit of research and I believe what you're looking at is a blue tiger shrimp: Caridina sp cf cantonensis. Blue Tiger Shrimp .:. Caridina cantonensis sp. "Blue Tiger" .:. Freshwater Aquarium Shrimp Species Information Page

Worth quite a shiny penny from what I've read, so take good care of the guy And they'll cross breed with CRS/CBS/tiger shrimp.

thanks. my shrimp is much darker than blue tigers. my mystery shrimp does not have the tiger stripes come from the sides .

on my visit to IPU the guy that helped me picked it up said that it might be a mutated cherry. i dont think IPU carried tigers for the longest time.

this guy was hanging out in their baby crayfish tank ( which i sold to them last week for 0.50 cents per cray)

[arash53]

my mystery shrimp is darker but his belly area shows a blue tint

It is female and carries egge.

[trevorhoang]

It is female and carries egge.

lol i wish. i dont see any visible eggs in its belly

[arash53]

lol i wish. i dont see any visible eggs in its belly

they are on her back I could see them on the first picture.

[BelieveInBlue]

I was that guy... and Neocaridina (cherries, PFR, yellow, etc) are similar to Caridina (amano, CRS, etc), so it could be either, though I don't know nearly enough about shrimp to tell the two apart by anatomy alone. It might be a straggler from the blue poso shrimp that we had months ago too. In any case, it's probably a Caridina sp. Hopefully someone more shrimp-wise can correctly ID it.

Edit: it might also be a lower quality Blue Bee shrimp? http://www.planetinverts.com/Blue_Bee_Shrimp.html

[plantedinvertz]

Not A blue tiger..

Blueberry shrimp i believe
Neocaridina cf. var.blue

Neocaridina colour variation