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Hi, About 4 months ago I added 6 Amano shrimp to one of my community tanks. I still see the Amano once in a while but today when I was changing water and doing a bit of cleaning I discovered the guy in the attached pictures. He does not look like the Amano that I see now and then and he is much bigger than the Amano.  What is he?

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Might be an Australian strain of amano type of shrimp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridina_typus

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As compared to a typical Amano Shrimps, the Australian Amano has fewer markings and is smaller in body size approximately 2 to 3 centimeters and sometimes it can grow for up to 5 centimeters.

 

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