Hello! Glad I found this forum. First a very quick introduction....I have a ten gallon planted tank (6 years old) and a little 2.5 gallon Betta/planted tank.
My question is in regards to my 2.5 gallon.
In it is currently one betta fish....driftwood....lots of java moss and two shrimp we purchase about a year ago as "Amano Shrimp"
I own four other shrimp in my ten gallon which are indeed Anamo Shrimp. Anyways.
The other night we are looking close at the 2.5 gallon and notice little TINY specks crawling on the glass and the seams....seemingly eating some algae growing there although they are SO SMALL you cannot see identifing features, they are just a little bigger than the period at the end of this sentence, or basically the same size as new born Sea Monkeys if any of you have kept those.
I know Amano shrimp are larvae and that larvae uses Brackish water to fully form into little shrimp. But I was ready that often, an aquarium place might mislabel Cherry Shrimp as Amano Shrimp....and that Cherry Shrimp begin life as a fully formed mini, not larvae, and can hatch in regular freshwater tanks.
We have taken a really bad, blurry photo (there is two in the photo, although I'd say there is about 25 of them in the tank)....here:
When looking at the photo...I immediatly thought it was a baby shrimp....although I have NO IDEA what they really are, or if they are in fact baby Cherry Shrimp. Any ideas or giveaways so I can KNOW they are shrimp?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Marisa
My question is in regards to my 2.5 gallon.
In it is currently one betta fish....driftwood....lots of java moss and two shrimp we purchase about a year ago as "Amano Shrimp"
I own four other shrimp in my ten gallon which are indeed Anamo Shrimp. Anyways.
The other night we are looking close at the 2.5 gallon and notice little TINY specks crawling on the glass and the seams....seemingly eating some algae growing there although they are SO SMALL you cannot see identifing features, they are just a little bigger than the period at the end of this sentence, or basically the same size as new born Sea Monkeys if any of you have kept those.
I know Amano shrimp are larvae and that larvae uses Brackish water to fully form into little shrimp. But I was ready that often, an aquarium place might mislabel Cherry Shrimp as Amano Shrimp....and that Cherry Shrimp begin life as a fully formed mini, not larvae, and can hatch in regular freshwater tanks.
We have taken a really bad, blurry photo (there is two in the photo, although I'd say there is about 25 of them in the tank)....here:
When looking at the photo...I immediatly thought it was a baby shrimp....although I have NO IDEA what they really are, or if they are in fact baby Cherry Shrimp. Any ideas or giveaways so I can KNOW they are shrimp?
Thanks in advance for your time.
Marisa