Archive for the ‘Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger’ Category

This is a short overview of shrimps which have reached German market in the last months. Most often, a selling name is avalaible faster than a scientific name. Though, taxonomy for some of these dwarf shrimps has been done in German already. German English Genus Species Subspecies Location Blaue Algengarnele NN caridina spec. Blaue Algengarnele [...]

Andreas Karge has written in an German forum, that the so called ‘Larry‘ shrimps are the same species as the so called ‘Camouflage Tiger‘ shrimps. They are very similar to C. meridionalis and need very soft water, light acid and cool water (<30 µS). This species seems to have a very wide phenotype with different [...]

Thanks to Andreas Karge who has examinated the former scientific unknown “Larry” shrimp lately! These shrimp are close to C. meridionalis and C. serrata but differ in detail. The microscopic analysis has led to the conclusion that this species belongs to genus Paracaridina and is undescribed yet. This shrimp will be named ‘Paracaridina sp. nov. [...]

Newbies often buy shrimp at their local fishdealer. What a pitty even specialized shops sell shrimp by false name. I have bought my first ‘Blue Tiger’ shrimp in in a local store at Cologne: Unfortunately, they later demasked as ‘caridina babaulti‘ – perfectly beeing kind of blue and imitating some stripes. Shrimps offered as Larry [...]