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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Camouflage Tiger’
Lately arrived Shrimp Species in Germany
Posted: 12th May 2010 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, New Bee Shrimp, Princess Bee, ShrimpTags: Camouflage Tiger, Larry Hongkong Shrimps, sandhummel, Weisskopfhummel, Wolkenpass Zwerggarnele
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Taxonomy of Larry Shrimps, 2
Posted: 6th January 2010 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, ShrimpTags: Camouflage Tiger, Larry Hongkong Shrimps
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 [...]
Larry, Hongkong Shrimps and Camouflage Tiger
Posted: 14th October 2009 by Imke in Larry Shrimp / Camouflage Tiger, ShrimpTags: Camouflage Tiger, Larry Hongkong Shrimps
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 [...]
