Archive for the ‘Black Tiger Shrimp’ Category

Anybody interested in crossbreeding Snow White (f) x Black Tiger (male, black eyes) should have a closer look at the remarks of Uwe Neumann in a German forum. In the F1 there are only a low percentage of shrimp with normal black tiger stripes and white on the back. Most of the offspring looks like [...]

Here are some updates from my shrimp tank Goldflakes (caridina spinata): 2 adults died, appearantly having molting problems, had brown bubbles in the neck before. One shrimp is berried! Change filtration to undergravel-canister-combination to reduce drift; shrimp like it and wander around more. New Bee Shrimp: 2 shrimps are berried but one only carrys few [...]

Black Tiger Shrimp

Posted: 10th August 2009 by Imke in Black Tiger Shrimp, Shrimp
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Black Tiger Shrimp (caridina cf. cantonensis var. ‘schwarze Tiger’) were one of the great sensation in the year 2008. There are two different phenotypes which also differ in genotype. Black Tiger Shrimp with dark eyes are (when not yet crossbreed with the other variation of Black Tiger Shrimp) mostly not 100% black. The black tiger [...]