Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 10:55 pm
Post subject: Red Cherry Shrimp
A few shots of my RCS. I am still messing around with settings on my camera, and these pics don't show how red they really are. Some of them, if you look at their backs, you'll see a yellow color. Those are what's called "saddles", which are eggs in their ovaries.
A young female that hasn't gotten her full color:
A size comparison to one of my Singapore shrimp:
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MelonHead Site Admin
Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 989 Location: Omaha, NE USA
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:03 pm
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Nice ARB:
I had red cherries when I had a community tank - very cool little shrimp- and great algae eaters!
However - very expensive fish food if you put them in the wrong tank.
Thanks Gary! I am trying to get some more posted tonight that are more recent. I am agree with you that they become gourmet food in the wrong tank. I am working on getting a 10 gallon set up for them. I have 7 females carring fertile eggs, so I want to get them moved out of the 30 gallon before the eggs hatch. The fish that I have in there now would eat the shrimplets.
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argnars Board Mbuna
Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Omaha
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:42 pm
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Your last picture, that RCS has the big white blob on the back. I have one like that and thought it was some parasite or something. Any ideas or is it normal?
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mpp Moderator
Joined: 17 Jun 2006 Posts: 638 Location: Bellevue NE
Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:46 pm
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Nice pics ARB! The tank looks very nice and apparently you have that condensation gremlin licked. Did you get the 5g?
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mike
Your last picture, that RCS has the big white blob on the back. I have one like that and thought it was some parasite or something. Any ideas or is it normal?
Nope. Not a parasite. That's the ovaries full of eggs that I mentioned. The color may look a little off in the pic.
Nice pics ARB! The tank looks very nice and apparently you have that condensation gremlin licked. Did you get the 5g?
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LOL I tried several times throughout the day to get the pics off of the camera. I guess I need to step up the pace on getting all of the tanks covered. I haven't heard back from the person on the 5g.
Here are a few more pics that I took less than a week ago. I think I've just about gotten the settings right with these pics:
A female carrying fertile eggs
A shrimp running across the ABN's head
This is my most adult and mature RCS female poking out of the Weeping moss:
Male and female in the weeping moss
Female carrying eggs
Caught these two fighting over something
This is a male
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argnars Board Mbuna
Joined: 07 Aug 2006 Posts: 193 Location: Omaha
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 10:49 am
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Duh I guess I could have read the first post!
Nice pictures! I hardly ever see mine, they hide in the back of the tank under some driftwood. No way am I getting a picture from there.
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