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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?

Andreas Karge has recently shown some pictures from the new shrimp found in Vietnam. The trival name of this beautiful shrimp is ‘Princess Bee’. A scientific description and examination will surely follow soon.

The shrimp are held on SRBS with undergravel filter: Water parameter: KH 0, GH 6, pH 6-6,5, 24-25°C and moderate water changes every two weeks.

Please visit Andreas’ website (www.caridea.de) for further information.

Andreas Karge and friends have returned from a trip to Vietnam where they found nice looking, yet unknown shrimps as he reported at crustawelt.de. See a video of the shrimp in their habitat here. The water parameter of this brook were: pH 6,0, KH 0, GH 0, electric conductence 24µS and temperature 26°C. I will update the links when more details are availible at http://www.caridea.de.

Check out the travel report and pics here.