Surprise in my stock ponds!!

[eklikewhoa]

Need a hug phung?

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[76dragon]

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[eklikewhoa]

Nope, just looking. Btw all shrimp on lock-down except my CRS. @Eklikewhoa how are the crs doing?

They're doing amazing Ben! Took the acclimating like a champ and colored right back up instantly and started to mix in with the others.

Whenever you're ready to part with those SSS CBS lmk!

[R_sustaita]

Why are they on lock down? What grade crs you got on sale now man?

[eklikewhoa]

Its hard to say what it is... either a RCS morphed into wild variant and then obtained the color by the food it ate

[bikeguru]

Nope, just looking. Btw all shrimp on lock-down except my CRS. @Eklikewhoa how are the crs doing?

[R_sustaita]

Its not fair you got to see then. Did you got any?

[eklikewhoa]

They were of typical amano shrimp size, males smaller, females fuller looking, the coloration was mostly in the carapace which leads me to think it was what they ingested. Very interesting occurrence that I would like to see played out in different holdings.

[dblondfemme]

Is there a size difference? Having that much space, does it create a larger specimen?
I am down for more shrimp... I love oddities ;-)

[eklikewhoa]

Got to see these in person today and I will admit it's boggling. Maybe after being in the tanks for a while it will show if there's any variance.

[Totenkampf]

I wouldn't mind sharing in some of your "culls" as well bikeguru, thansk for offering!

[R_sustaita]

Thank you bikeguru. i will take all shrimp that you do not want.

[LooksLater]

Shrimp Whisperer!

Thanks for sharing, this has been a really interesting post...got me and mnemenoi thinking, for sure. I am looking forward to some pictures when you get them.

[bikeguru]

Here's the thing, the ponds are for the koi only that I happen to have really good luck that all kinds of shrimp are breeding in there is a plus. Yes the koi feast on them, but hey it's their home! That I noticed last night a bunch of blue's all together with some Amano's that's rare. A few minutes ago I took a peek and all I saw was amanos and this time a few cherries, no blues.
Is there something special to the water.................maybe. Color change because of a food source, maybe. I know it's not the koi food cause that contains copper and we all know copper is deadly to shrimp. My company installs koi ponds and we use only Aquascape products "aquascapeinc.com". In all the ponds we install we got shrimp, hitchhiked with the waterlily's. Our ponds are no smaller than 1500 gallons, we did once a koi pond that was a acre and half. Point is shrimp is breeding in all of them.
I'm happy to give every one free shrimp but you have to acclimate them to none pond water. And when I clean the ponds I'll let y'all know that we can have a shrimp feast.

[R_sustaita]

it may be, but mean while it is a beautiful specimen. i was reading and it may be a blue shrimp, a variation of cherry shrimp.