Cody

i bought two black diamond shrimp which as far as know dont exisit..im going to ask the owner of my favorite lfs..(the only place you can go for good info.).some more info..he showed them to me when i was asking him about one of the shirmps that he was out of and i thought they were really cool and i had a buy one get one free coupon for there and they were ten bucks a peace so i got them bu ti was getting ready to leave when i was asking him about that stuff and he showed me them so i didnt ask much..and then i took them and the awesome cherry barbs i got ..and brought them home

fishgirl

Can you postca pic so we can see the shrimp?

Cody

i would like to but im having trouble finding them ..i think one of them is actully a oragne shrimp. one is a orange color and looks very simalar to pics iv seen of them..but the other one is alot more pale at frist i thought maybe one is a male and the other a female.and that could stil lbe possible im working on the pictures though i hope there alive still

sirdarksol

http://www.petshrimp.com/shrimpspecies.html

Check out this page and see if any of them look right.

Cody

thats sirdarksol but i looked there before to..i love that site though its hard to find good sites for shrimp info,i think

sirdarksol

That's the most comprehensive site that I've found yet. I love it.

It could be that you have a cross-breed of some sort.

Cody

here are some pictures of the shirmp

Dino

I would be interested if you ever get any to sell or trade.

sirdarksol

Ditto here on the sell/trade (or, Dino, if you get a breeding colony, I'd be willing to purchase from you).
I'd be willing to bet that it's a cross between the black and the red amano shrimp.

Cody

hm. ill look into it.. there pretty expensive. ten bucks a piece where i got them from

Cody

and i have never heard of a red or black amaon shrimp

Dino

Thats not too bad.
Several species of shrimp commonly found in the shops now run about that much.

Cody

have you even seen anything like that before?

Dino

Not in person.
I have seen crystal reds and red nosed shrimp, as well as having cherries, cardinia yellow and neon greens, here.

sirdarksol

The crystal reds are a variant of the normal amano shrimp. The black ones are on the website I listed above. I think that both are of the neocaradinia family (genus, whatever, I can't remember the specifics of Latin names), which are, if I am understanding this right, developed and bred entirely in captivity, using the various caradinia species as breeding stock.
Hopefully, if the ones you have don't go through planktonic stage, they will breed like crazy. Dino's right. The more odd species are relatively expensive.

There is another possibility that I, for some reason, hadn't thought of. It seems that the amano shrimp can be permanently died fairly easily. This may be nothing more than a normal amano shrimp.

Cody

. well idk as far as being died goes im not sure. i own amanos also. and the pattern on the amanos ive seen is much different its more perfect where tthe "black diamond shrimp'' markings are more blotchy looking.
i only have one of them now. after not seeing them for weeks i finaly saw one and then found the other dead. i i bet i had a pair though because one had that oragne tint and the other was more clear. sort of how cherry shrimps can differ from male to female if im correct the females are much more red compared to males?
i got it becuae i had a buy one get on free coupon. i have a 5.5 gallon tank that i used for a betta that lived for almost 6months, not sure what happend. but im going to purchase a heater for the tank and then use it to breed some cherry shrimp. my lfs would love to get them from me . sinse its somthing that can get sold up pretty fast there. and i love them and i think it would be cool to breed shrimp, and I LOVE Them