Help With Id'ing Freshwater Shrimp

[AJ Tudor]

Hey guys, I want some shrimp for my 12 gal, I saw some in Maidenhead but want to find a few things out first. They're colouring looks exactly like marine cleaners, same shape etc as cherry shrimp and marked in the shop as tiger shrimp but I want a latin name if possible, anyone care to help?

AJ

 

[shroob]

By 'marine cleaners' do you mean Lysmata amboinensis:

The freshwater shrimp called tiger shrimp (caridina cantonensis) looks like this:

So quite a difference as you can see, though tiger shrimp do come in different colour varieties, one of them is red:

Going by the pictures I don't think what you saw was a tiger shrimp (if I got the marine cleaner shrimp right - no expert on marine tanks so just googled )


Any other descriptive features you can remember? Its possible it might be a sulawesi shrimp as these have vibrant colours more resembling marine shrimp.

Hope this helps.

 

[TylerFerretLord]

Yeah, my bet is that you saw one oif the species from sulawesi, specifically the two that shroob has posted(Caridina cf. spongicola & Caridina sp.).

These shrimp are very difficult to keep and require hard and alkaline water. If you've never kept shrimp before I suggest you don't start with these guys.

 

[AJ Tudor]

Okay it's definately not a Sulawesi shrimp, they are beautiful and I've been lucky enough to snorkel in a lake that was full of a slightly different form of them.
The vibrancy of the red and white stripe are the same as the sulawesi but they are vertical stripes along the length of the shrimp. I keep looking for tigers but I can't find anything like what I saw.

 

[AJ Tudor]

Found it! Well almost, there were not any white specks on the telson in the shop.

Red zebra shrimp?

 

[pippoodle]

Found it! Well almost, there were not any white specks on the telson in the shop.

Red zebra shrimp?

were they crystal red shrimps (red bee shrimps) i know maidenhead have been getting a lot of crystals in lately

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[KajukiKing]

a rudolph shrimp or red nosed shrimp? or maybe a singapore flower shrimp