Blue Velvet Shrimp

[Fancyfish]

very pretty shrimp

[thegoodlife]

Those are really neat looking shrimp...

[murphanader]

Hey what type of plant is that growing on your substrate in the last two pics?

[murphanader]

also what's tpt?

[mistahoo]

also what's tpt?

tpt is another forum called "The Planted Tank"

http://www.plantedtank.net/

[murphanader]

tpt is another forum called "The Planted Tank"

http://www.plantedtank.net/

Hey what type of plant is that growing on your substrate in the last two pics?

[Totenkampf]

kinda looks like dwarf baby tears (HC) to me, though i have never had any so i'm not positive.

[Vigilante]

Hey what type of plant is that growing on your substrate in the last two pics?

Yes they are dwarf baby tears Hemianthus callitrichoides is the scientific name

[Vigilante]

These guys are really coloring up

[mnemenoi]

Great colors, glad to see they did not wash out and certainly on my want list now!!!!

[Fancyfish]

Those are looking really great!

[HiepSTA]

to those wondering about the color washing out, it seems to me that the color stays pretty consistantly blue and hold truer than other blue neo species (blue pearl in particular is known to have its colors washed out) these shrimps are not dyed or fed special foods for thier blue coloration, these shrimps were derrived from the blue rili shrimp which has been bred to lose all red coloration. in my first generation of offspring i observed a few shrimps with some bits of red on them, so the rili gene has not been completely bred out yet, i see some of my blue velvet offspring show red horns and some have some light red stripes on them. when these blue velvets are only a few days old, they are pink, just like a normal cherry shrimp, when they grow they lose the pink coloration and begin to turn blue.

its crazy how a brown wild cherry shrimp was selectively bred and eventually turned into this.

wild N. Heteropoda --> cherry shrimp --> rili shrimp --> blue rili shrimp --> blue velvet

[mistahoo]

Re: Blue Velvet Shrimp

That's awesome! I was planning on getting some but was worried about their color washing out. Thanks!

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[Jozle]

I have all forms of evolution for the Velvets. My berried velvet started releasing her eggs today!

[Vigilante]

Blue Velvet Shrimp

Congrats! I started noticing shrimplets about a week ago.