Just Found An Old Friend.....

[caino]

Heya, about a month back i brought some new fish for my 120l comunity tank. The fish were in with "algea eating shrip" and as i got home i noticed there was two shrip that had come along for the journy. They were about 0.75" long and quite thin, they were very pale, and almost translucent with a thin pale line up there back, bearly visable. I decided what the hell and put them into the tank. I saw them for a few days flitting about munching on algea, but then they disapered, my tank has a few plants and two large peices of bogwood, i thought maby they were hiding but after 2-3 weeks of shrip free tank i thought that they had died or my rams liked shrimp. But literally 2mins ago, after my weekly maintaience on community tank i saw one, its now about 1.25" and very fat, it has got alot darker and now looks black, with a vivid white line running up its back, i ran off to get camera to put on here for ID but it had disspaered when i got back as things do!

So any ideas?

 

[Invader Xan]

Black with a white line... could be a ninja shrimp?
Could you see any visible claws?

Actually, I take that back... Ninjas have white rings along their tails. I'm not sure what he is either.

 

[caino]

No visable claws, just looks lkie a normal dwarf shrimp,

Edit It could be one of these , but it was just sat on the filter intake, but buzzed off when it saw me comming, however i cannot see any feather things on it to suggest a filter feeder, just arms picking at algea, i no where it hangs now thou, ill try get a picture next time i see it

 

[Invader Xan]

Interesting... Keep an eye on him and see how fast he grows. But you're right, he's probably just a young algae eater of some kind. Try and get a picture, dude, I'm intrigued...

Did you see any patterning on his sides, BTW?
My amanos spend all day eating cladophora algae, and it gives them a very dark speckled colouration on their carapace, with a narrow white line down their back...

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Amano shrimp can turn particularly dark in colour as they mature if they are in good condition, the darkening of their colour seems to be somehow connected to the females getting into breeding condition (i own a lot of amano shrimp, the juveniles/younger ones are all the typical translucent looking appearance, but the adults which seem to be always breeding are often a lot darker in colour, which makes the lighter coloured line down their back look more distinct- i'll see if i can get any pics).
Normal amano shrimp;

http/www.aquahobby.com/gallery/e_shrimp.php

http/caridina.japonica.online.fr/English/Galerie.htm

I'll see if i can get any pics of darker coloured amano adults- do these shrimp so far look anything like yours?

 

[caino]

i was thinking something as simple as ameno, i havnt looked at links yet as laptop is lagging from uploading a pic of it, so ill post that in a mo, its a crud pic but gives an idea, and i couldnt see any mottled pattern of any sort, just plane black one mo

sorry bout poor poor pic quality litterally just point cam and shoot befor it dissapered!

 

[Invader Xan]

Hehe... It's like the bigfoot shrimp. Blurry photos and eyewitness accounts are all we have to go on!

Sure looks darker than any amano I've ever seen. I've seen similar looking, but I forget the name... Sorry I can't be more help.

 

[caino]

lol, it is very elusive aswell i cant get a better picture at themoment i can see its tail and thats about it at some dodgy angle and it does resemble an ameno, but i cant see any pattern on it atall, just looks solid black to me but i could be rong, illkeep you posted as an when i see it

 

[~T~]

Sounds like mine and I have not got a proper ID on them either, try searching with "rainbow shrimp" or "malayan shrimp".They change colour from almost clear, to yellow, to orange, to red, to deep maroon.

Heres a few pics of mine.

With a cherry and a rednose at the front.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Yeah i agree its not amano shrimp now i've seen the pics- too dark in colour. I swear i've seen it somewhere before though, i'll see if i can turn up anything for you .

 

[Invader Xan]

Can't make him out well enough to tell, but I think he could be a Red Tail Shrimp... That would make him a neocaridina sp (treat him like a crystal red).

Keep an eye on his front legs if you can see them though -- there's a type of dwarf fan shrimp (Atyoida bisculata) which also has a dark colouration. If he likes sitting on the filter intake, that makes this a possiblity...

At any rate, I think you have a pretty rare little pet there. Take good care of him!

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

I agree with Invader Xan, the Red Tail Shrimp looks very similar colouration and patterning wise, definately a likely posibility .

 

[caino]

thanks for the replies, i saw it earlier and its turned to a red colour, it was still quite a deep colour, and the white stripe on the back as gone more orange.

It does look a lot like ~T~'s, well it looks exactly the same with the line and body shape

 

[three-fingers]

Lol, defiantly sounds like a ninja shrimp to me .