Tropical Fish Forum
Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: Sanjo on April 25, 2015, 07:37:29 PM
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a) What is the opinion of the sex of this yellowish shrimp please. It's bigger than the others and quite adventurous. Also much yellower so the vendor must have had other coloured shrimp in her tank maybe?
b) Why has it got its tail bent like that. Is it for balance when he was tucking into the pellet. It was straight earlier
c) Is this reddish one male or female. If female is it berried?
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Difficult to tell but I'd plump for both being female. I only have experience with RCS but the males are smaller and less red than the females. Good example half way down this page: http://www.theshrimpfarm.com/articles/cherry_shrimp_breeding.php (http://www.theshrimpfarm.com/articles/cherry_shrimp_breeding.php)
The yellow looks like it might be ready to moult.
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Thanks Cod. I can't tell really with any of them.
If you are right they are both female then I don't think I have any males at all.
On the other hand, I've finally seen 9 of them tonight which is the largest total since they went in a week ago, but some are so tiny it's hard to tell - some of these littlies may well be male although so immature that I imagine it would take a while for them to become sexually active.
Oh patience patience, why don't I have any !!
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I bought 22 shrimp total and I've only got 3 males (as far as I can tell). I was chuffed the other day when I spotted a juvenile shrimp in the tank. I never saw any berried shrimp or baby shrimp, but my community is definitely growing. 9 is good going, I rarely see more than 7 of the 18... I mean 19... shrimp left in my tank!
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W e l l .....
According to my other half, I do spend an inordinate amount of time staring into both the shrimp and fish tanks!! so I'm there long enough to count what I see, although it is a struggle sometimes because they match the substrate so well.
I have to wait until I detect movement and can then follow them with my eye.
I used to do such a lot of reading but for some reason, I just don't get the time anymore :D
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Believe it or not my other half says the same. I've got my nose to the fish tank or I'm online either posting here or researching new plants, aquascapes and of course my next livestock! I'm completely hooked (excuse the pun!)
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Hi Sanjo,
I think both are female but it is hard to tell if the red is berried. If she ever lands on a plant so you can see underneath her then look for lots and lots of tiny balls around her swimmerettes ( back legs) these are eggs. She may well keep jiggling them about wiith her legs, which always amuses me! ;D
The best way to tell beween males and females is that males have a flatter abdomen and no body casing extending down over the swimmerettes.
The curling the tail thing is normal. They do it to clean before and after moulting.
FC76