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A comment on a difficult topic.

A couple of rough days have passed by and after being involved in several discussions on a shrimp breeder association, I have had time to check the internet for some more information about the in Germany so called ‘Princess Bee’. I stumbled across several forums and also found a closed thread on this shrimp species as well as a selling embargo in TSO forum. It forbids more concrete mass selling.

Although web translators most often return very funny and insane phrases, I was able to understand that the main point was: Who and under which circumstances is allowed to catch, trade and breed this shrimp?

The members of another forum were not so happy about the fact that the name ‘Princess Bee’ (also: Tép ong Huế or Honey Vietnamese Shrimp) was given by a foreign scientist and – in addition – that these shrimp were available in Europe already. The first report on this shrimps is from may 2009, posted in a well known Asian forum by a guy from Vietnam.

So after two years in the hobby I know that new dwarf shrimp species on the market are like a money-printing machine for the greedy ones. Who cares about the animals?

P. S. Have a look: Is this a Red Princess Bee?

Sandhummel (picture by mr.-krabs.de)

German shrimp fanatics seeking for Caridina meridionalis should look after ‘Weisskopf Hummel’ or ‘Sandhummel’ as they have been often named trivial on the stock lists. These shrimp belongs to the New Bee group and can crossbreed with ‘Bee Shrimp’.