Posts Tagged ‘crossbreeding’

Tigerbee Shrimp

Posted: 19th June 2010 by Imke in Shrimp, Tigerbees
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I found a single, interesting looking shrimp in my local fish store ad took it home. I guess that’s a Tigerbee or some other hybrid. Update: berried from a Supertiger since june 24th dropped all eggs until june 30th

Shrimp Crossbreeding Chart Vers. 1.1.

Posted: 20th April 2010 by Imke in Shrimp
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This morning I worked on the shrimp crossbreeding chart and added the paracaridina group (Princess Bee, Blue Bee, Larry/Hongkong shrimp). You can download it in the right sidebar or here (PDF).

It was in summer 2008 when I did some crossbreeding of Red Tiger and Blue Tiger orange eye (OE). I presented the breeding project in German garnelenforum.de. Similar shrimps I have had in F2 have made it to the shops finally. Check out images at wirbellosenandmore (scroll down).

When talking about shrimp keeping, most people talk about breeding shrimps too. But in fact, simple reproduction is not breeding. Breeding means to select offspring to meet criteria for better genes. This also means to reject a great number of shrimplets  which don’t meet the breeding target. A serious breeder will not sell shrimps he [...]