Orange Bee Shrimp

[dizzied]

Anyone know much about this one? I noticed Petco started carrying them recently.

 

[Liam]

I havent kept them but what I know as orange bee shrimp is a colour morph of regular bee shrimp/crystal black shrimp, they are also the same species as crystal red shrimp. So the care is the same i.e. best kept in soft water with ph 6.5-7. If you already have crystal red or black they will obviously breed with them. I have only seen pics they look quite nice and are a natural colour morph that exists in the wild, so they havent been bred for the colour so they may be less delicate than higher grade crystal reds.

 

[Shrimper]

There are a couple of posibilitys, Just from the name i would guess its one of these two species:

It could just be a Crystal Red Shrimp. This is the one that has been bred from the Bee Shrimp. If you look at the pictures on This Link they are more orange in colour than some others i've seen.

It could be a "new Bee" shrimp. From reading around shrimp keepers think this is a different species as they won't breed with the Crystal Red's. I think this one is also know as the Bumblebee. The pictures on This Link show them to be orange/brown.

Or it could be something else entirely