Caridina cf babaulti (Blackberry Shrimp) Experience

I'm so glad you messaged the seller and got your money back. Reading this thread after you said they probably weren't zebras made me hold my breath!

 

Just an update on the zebras. Nine adults are still alive, 3 males 6 females. I count 10 babies that are visible now. I'm not sure if a lot of the eggs didn't hatch or survival rate is just low. The 3 females have all berries twice relatively quickly, I believe, but are now in berries for a while. How's the survival rate with your greens?

 

Just an update on the zebras. Nine adults are still alive, 3 males 6 females. I count 10 babies that are visible now. I'm not sure if a lot of the eggs didn't hatch or survival rate is just low. The 3 females have all berries twice relatively quickly, I believe, but are now in berries for a while. How's the survival rate with your greens?

I think it’s too soon to tell just yet. I took a look at the female in the breeder basket and saw some little babies crawling around, they should be around a week old now.

In my 10gal with the palmata and other greens I haven’t been seeing many babies as of late. I feel like something is going on in there as there should be 30+ shrimp but I’m lucky if I see 20 at feeding time. I recently added a heater in hopes of increasing activity and breeding. The one eyed green female is heavily saddled so I’ll be ready to move her to another basket when she’s berried. I’m not risking letting this mini colony die out.

 

I think it’s too soon to tell just yet. I took a look at the female in the breeder basket and saw some little babies crawling around, they should be around a week old now.

In my 10gal with the palmata and other greens I haven’t been seeing many babies as of late. I feel like something is going on in there as there should be 30+ shrimp but I’m lucky if I see 20 at feeding time. I recently added a heater in hopes of increasing activity and breeding. The one eyed green female is heavily saddled so I’ll be ready to move her to another basket when she’s berried. I’m not risking letting this mini colony die out.

They might be hiding. I've noticed that sometimes one of my zebras will randomly stay perfectly still behind a leaf and not move for a few hours. They then return to full activity afterwards.

 

Cleaned the tank today and I think this is a green babaulti youngster.

 

Your post made me realized that the temperature is on the lower end. Might be why they haven't been breeding as actively. Turned it up by 2 degrees to 74. Thanks.

 

The temp is ~75, added the heater a few days ago so it’s good now.

I’m debating on add my 4 tiny pygmy corries to see if they’ll breed in a tank with less activity. I doubt they’ll bother the shrimp, they are about the same length as an adult female shrimp.

I’ve got 2 male BN on eggs/fry too so perhaps I’ll move some in the 10gal to add something more to look at. Green dragon bred with a long fin albino, curious to see how they turn out. There should be a small portion of long fins but I’ve no idea what color they’ll be.



Side note: whatever they did to the photo upload things I don’t care for how fuzzy they make the pictures look.

 

Babaultis are doing surprising well as of late. I was looking during feeding time and saw some smaller babaultis, at least one young female with a growing saddle and one small male. Unfortunately I didn’t have my device on hand for taking pictures of them. There’s also a batch of shrimplets in the breeder basket and then 2 older little ones in another tank.

There are now some BN and rainbow fish fry in this tank. Those are in another thread though.

Here’s a pic of a male babaulti and an orange rabbit snail for lack of other photos.

 

Demeter, How green did your green babultis, including the babies, turn out to be? Did they turn out as green as the picture that aqua huna had or was it misleading???

 

I'm seeing more and more juvenile babaultis, in fact I think they are outnumbering the palmata shrimp! I've been keeping berried females in a breeder basket until their eggs hatch and then removing the larger babies once they aren't in danger of being eaten by the rainbow fry. The other day I saw one of the berried females looking pretty blue in the basket, first time I'd seen the "chameleon" effect I've read so much about about. Sadly I didn’t get a picture of it.

Here’s one of the 2 original females, she’s the one with a missing eye. The only thing green about these shrimp is their eggs.



One of the juveniles, hard to see but ehh.