Mordecai13 Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 Hello all, I got a new shrimp yesterday which I thought was a blue dream shrimp, but upon further inspection could be an orange eye?? If so, would these require softer water / different water parameters? I recently got a Crystal red shrimp but it disappeared shortly after since I suppose my water wasn’t soft enough.. my other neocardinias doing well tho. Thank you and plz lmk!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T. Payne Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 I don't believe that is an orange eye, I have a group of mixed shrimp and they produce several that look like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 On 7/26/2024 at 6:59 PM, Mordecai13 said: If so, would these require softer water / different water parameters? What are the parameters now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordecai13 Posted July 27 Author Share Posted July 27 @tolstoy21 ammonia 0 nitrite 0 nitrate 40-80 ppm GH 30 ppm KH 0 ph 6.0-6.5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tolstoy21 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 That should be fine fine either caridina or neocaridina species. Except, maybe bring the nitrates closer to 20ppm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nabokovfan87 Posted July 27 Share Posted July 27 It looks a little bit like an amano shrimp, Australian strain of the species. If it is indeed an actual neocaridina shrimp (size is the big indication there) then you would be talking a wild type, backbone gene (gold line down the back) which is likely from a yellow or green line originally. It would be what we call a "Skittles" shrimp because it has a lot of subdominant genetic traits going on. Wild type neocaridina, pattern can go to almost completely black Australian amano shrimp: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridina_typus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ethangoldberg Posted July 31 Share Posted July 31 Probably an amano shrimp as per @nabokovfan87 said but I am not really sure about the strain. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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