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Lately arrived Shrimp Species in Germany

Posted: 12th May 2010 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, New Bee Shrimp, Princess Bee, Shrimp
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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 [...]

Taxonomy of Larry Shrimps, 2

Posted: 6th January 2010 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, Shrimp
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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 [...]

Taxonomy of Larry Shrimps

Posted: 6th November 2009 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, Shrimp
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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. [...]

Larry, Hongkong Shrimps and Camouflage Tiger

Posted: 14th October 2009 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, Shrimp
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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 [...]