Fresh water shrimp

[gold4me]

Always a pleasure to see your beauties

[matherfish]

Here is a “wild” type neocaridina shrimp from my skittles tank. Wilds are born when different color neocaridina shrimp breed, reverting them back to the wild coloring. Cool looking, isn’t it?
The other shrimp in the pic is a red neocaridina.

[matherfish]

Did I post my latest aquarium design? It is only a five gallon tank. It has three guppies and 6 golden back yellow shrimp in it. The water is still a little cloudy.

[matherfish]

There are only a few varieties of fish that you can keep with shrimp because the fry are so tiny almost every fish will eat them. Fish with very tiny mouths, such as guppies, and endlers are among the few types. Bristlenose plecos are also among those that are considered safe. Pictured are some long finned blue-eyed lemon plecos. Once they get a little older they will star turning more yellow, as in the picture of a grown one.

[matherfish]

I have baby plecos!!! I have baby blue eyed lemon bristle nosed plecos! Excited to see them in the tank!

[gold4me]

Oh that is such a cool tank

[gold4me]

I’ve always been a fan of those pleco’s

[matherfish]

The baby plecos are growing, but slowly. Dad is a long finand mom is a short fin so babies will be some of both!

[gold4me]

Beautiful babies

[matherfish]

New pleco babies have a short fin calico dad, and along fin super red mama. Two weeks old, but not as many as the blue eyed lemon babies.

[gold4me]

I was wondering what substrate do you use for planted tanks? I bet those blue eyed babies are gorgeous

[matherfish]

I do not use substrate in most of my tanks. I have a thin cover of crushed coral, mostly for the shrimp’s exoskeleton. Here are pics of the super red calico babies. As you can tell, the color comes when they get older.