Does Anyone Know This Shrimp?

[Mystil]

Hello Guys
Well I went up to Bucks this weekend and went to a fish shop. VERY BAD IDEA!
I came away with shrimp!

The shop said that they were black diamond shrimp...One of them is at least 3cm long with huge long antenna and really long legs and pincers.

Does anyone have any idea what there other name could be for the shrimp below and also the female is carrying green eggs...will they hatch in freshwater or will they die? The shop did not have a clue!



as you can see...very long legs and preggers!







Thanks

 

[KajukiKing]

From the pictures they don't look like black diamond shrimp. Looks like ghost shrimp or rainbow shrimp.

 

[Wolfenrook]

It looks a little bit like a sri lanka dwarf shrimp, Caridina Simoni Simoni, but very pale and not 'coloured up' yet. It could also be either a red nose, or yellow nose, shrimp. All 3 of these varieites have that kind of shape, but simoni simoni is bred entirely in freshwater with an abbreviated larval phase, where red nose and yellow nose shrimp both have a brackish stage. It's also possible it's just a ghost/glass shrimp, as these have that shape as well. It's hard to tell from those pics I'm afraid.

Ade

 

[Mystil]

Okay.
I will try to get some closer pictures tonight of them again.Thanks Guys

 

[Wolfenrook]

Well one thing I can tell you for definite is that it isn't a black diamond shrimp. Black diamond shrimp are a type of bee shrimp with black and white stripes, sometimes called crystal black shrimp or just black bee shrimp. Completely different shape and colouring to yours. I would suggest you take them back and get a refund, as you have definitely been lied to.

Ade

 

[Mystil]

Bit of a pain to take back as it is a 5 hour journey from where I live usually, I was visiting family in bucks over the weekend, I am usually in somerset.....


The shrimps usual posture is with her tail stuck up in the air and her head pointing to the ground...I will try to add piccs tonight at some point.

 

[Mystil]

I love this one...freakish!


This is what her usualy posture is....

 

[Corleone]

I like the first picture with the bug eyes. There's about a hundred people who'll give a more reliable id than me, but the stripes look like amano shrimp. Unless you paid a high price for them expecting the black diamond shrimp, there's not really a driving need to return them, IMO. I've gotten a few misidentified fish and as long as I knew they were still suitable and the price was still fair, I usually kept them..

 

[Wolfenrook]

Hmmm, it vaguely resembles a juvenile macrobrachium lanchesteri

Ignore the apparent brown in that pic, it's an artifact created by my digital camera, they are actually pretty much clear with stripes, like this

I am absolutely certain that it isn't an amano, as these have a completely different body shape, different markings and much smaller claws

Have you tried setting the white balance setting on your camera to flourescent? Should remove the bias towards yellow and green that is visible in those pics.

It's also still VERY possible that it's a ghost shrimp, as these look very similar to juvenile lanchesteri.

Ade

PS. Pics taken from the relevant species profiles from UK Shrimp, I however own the original copyright.

 

[dave_m13]

I have just brought some of these, they did not have a name at lfs but said they were from cambodia and new species but I have been searching internet and just found Palaemon pantanal - Brazilian Yellow-Belly Grass Shrimp which is very very similar.

 

[Mystil]

Apparently the shop I bought them from was saying that they come from Indonisia? and there are so many new species coming from there.

My new additions have definiatley got those tiny thin pincers of the Palaemon pantanal but I am not convinced they are the same species.

Sorry havent added more piccs without the green tinge...got a stonking cold that has knocked me for six and I cant even remember my own name!! been at work all day with the general public and most of my words ended in-"Hu??"