South-China is the origin of the most beautiful wild caught caridina shrimps, like Tiger, Bee and Bumble Bee. Everybody ever seen Supertiger shrimp in real knows that not only selective breeding brings beauty to our hobby. Unfortunately, the shrimp habitats are strongly endangered by humans. Agriculture, ecological degradation and downstream pollution of rivers from and [...]
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Protecting Shrimp Habitats in China
Posted: 5th August 2010 by Imke in Events & Field Trips, Habitats & Nature Protection, Most Popular ArticlesTags: china, fair trade, Friends of Nature Hong Kong, Greenpeace, habitat, nature protection, WWF
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Shipping Shrimps and using Breathing Bags
Posted: 10th March 2010 by Imke in Most Popular Articles, Practical Advises, Shops/Selling/Buying ShrimpTags: brathing bags, kordon, shipping shrimps
So called ‘breathing bags’ have a great advantage in comparison to normal fish bags: They let oxygene (O2) in and CO2 out. This means that your shrimp will have always enough O2 if you packed the bags the right way. The bags should not touch each other; heat packs also should not be in direct [...]
High Grades, Star Breeders and Line Breeding
Posted: 24th February 2010 by Imke in High Grades & Classification Systems, Most Popular Articles, ShrimpTags: Ebi-Ten, Hakata, Shirakura, Ueno
People interested in high grade CR are sometimes keen to collect so called ‘red line’ shrimps. This expression refers to the fact, that some high grade CR have SSS patterns through selective breeding of low grades. Besides, it’s assumed to prove that no Snow White shrimp has been crossed in to improve patterns and grades. [...]
The most wanted Shrimp in 2010?
Posted: 11th February 2010 by Imke in Most Popular Articles, ShrimpTags: most wanted shrimp, new shrimp species, shrimp trend in 2010
While Blue and Black Tiger shrimps have been bestsellers in 2008 – like King Kong and Panda have been in 2009 – we now are eager to know which shrimp will be the favorite in 2010. There are some newbreeds already shown to a wider public: Black Fire, Blue Fire (which was perhaps a good [...]
