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Tropical Fish Keeping => Invertebrates - Shrimps and Snails => Topic started by: Sanjo on June 27, 2015, 12:52:37 PM

Title: Shrimp with a line down its back
Post by: Sanjo on June 27, 2015, 12:52:37 PM

My big yellow (so names because it's bigger than the others and yellow!) has a lightish coloured line down its back.
When I  first saw it I thought it was a failed moult and fully expected to see it's dead body next day.

However, it is still alive and feeding two days later, still with the lighter coloured line down its back.

None of the other shrimp have a line like this.

Is this normal for some shrimp. Please say yes so that I can stop worrying about it!!

Title: Re: Shrimp with a line down its back
Post by: Sue on June 27, 2015, 01:33:16 PM

Is this a yellow cherry shrimp? None of mine have a line down their length but I have seen photos of shrimps like this. I think it is just the colouring of some individuals.

Title: Re: Shrimp with a line down its back
Post by: Sanjo on June 27, 2015, 01:55:56 PM

It wasn't designated as a yellow Sue.  These were my original shrimp that I collected from a young woman who was thinning out her tank.

She was selling them as Red cherry but this one is definitely a different colour so I think she must have had them mixed in the tank.