Nimra
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Sorry for the false alarm, no one was attacked. But I do have a question concerning these shrimp: Some 2 years ago I bought 5 green BabaultI Shrimp from my LFS, and one that was of brownish color. I never had any other shrimp species in my aquarium, nor did I buy any after that.
Some 6 months ago I started noticing that some of them grew really large (more than 3 cm, as you can see on the pic). Also, I noticed that some red specimens also stared to appear, and some of them had really intense red color. I didn't notice that any of them ever grew above 2.5 cm. There are a lot of questions going on in my head:
1. Do BabaultI Shrimp grow to this size (3-4 cm)?
2. Did a different (red) species sneak ih amongst the initial 6 I bought? Are the red ones just younger and didn't reach their full size?
3. Are they actually the same species?
4. Are they going to eat my healty plants once they get too big (I did notice dying off of sagittaria subulata, which can be seen on the last photo).
Here are some photos, and you can actually see two specimens on one of them for comparison (a red one and a large one)
Thanks
Some 6 months ago I started noticing that some of them grew really large (more than 3 cm, as you can see on the pic). Also, I noticed that some red specimens also stared to appear, and some of them had really intense red color. I didn't notice that any of them ever grew above 2.5 cm. There are a lot of questions going on in my head:
1. Do BabaultI Shrimp grow to this size (3-4 cm)?
2. Did a different (red) species sneak ih amongst the initial 6 I bought? Are the red ones just younger and didn't reach their full size?
3. Are they actually the same species?
4. Are they going to eat my healty plants once they get too big (I did notice dying off of sagittaria subulata, which can be seen on the last photo).
Here are some photos, and you can actually see two specimens on one of them for comparison (a red one and a large one)
Thanks