Male or female?

[Dreamwallaby]

Is this a female? In waiting for another shrimp to move so I can get pic of that one too.

 

[Dreamwallaby]

Here is shrimp #2. I think they are both females so wanted to check with you guys.

 

[Dreamwallaby]

And shrimp 3 which I hope is a male

 

[doolitcd]

#1 has a saddle, so def female. 2 and 3 are harder to tell, my guess is 2 is male and 3 is female. They look pretty young, it will be easier to tell when they are older.

 

[Dreamwallaby]

Thank you so much for responding. The darkness behind #1 's head is the saddle, right? I am very new to shrimp and still trying to figure it all out.

 

[doolitcd]

not the dark part right behind the head. The yellowish green part behind that is the saddle, its kind of shaped like a horse saddle.

 

[Dreamwallaby]

Aaah , ok I see it. Thank you can I ask another question..
I had a female that clearly had eggs in her abdomen when I bought her. She was healthy for about 4-5 days, then she molted, (at least I think it was her) and died. When I took her out she had no eggs but I don't see anything in the tank either. I was surprised she molted while berried, and any idea what could have killed her? Water is 0 for ammonia, nitrite and nitrates. 7.4 pH. 4 for KH and 88.5 gh. I did add excel flourish liquid carbon the night before.

 

[doolitcd]

Sorry don't really know what to tell you. I am just getting started with shrimp myself, and only have Cherry red shrimp, don't know much about orange bee shrimp. I don't think it would be possible for a CRS to molt while berried since they molt just before breeding, not sure about your shrimp though.