I purchased a group of Amano shrimp a while ago but have since noticed that one of them is definitely not an amano, it's only about 2-3cm long and the colours don't match, but I haven't been able to figure out what it actually is, can anyone identify it?
Mystery shrimp
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Cherry shrimp or possibly a Rili shrimp, also female.
Cherry: Deeper the red the higher the grade.
Rili: Clearer the shrimp the higher the grade.
Cherry: Deeper the red the higher the grade.
Rili: Clearer the shrimp the higher the grade.
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huh, interesting, I did think it was the size of a cherry but had never seen that colour variation, are these sort of colour variations normal?
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Yup, shops will get all sorts of qualities and will probs sell them as ‘mixed cherry shrimp’.
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There is a shrimp that gets mixed up with Amano (especially in P@H) which has claws (I think they're called Ghost shrimp), but I don't think that has them, so @fr499y is right.
The ghost shrimp will take small fish while they're resting, that's the problem with them.
The ghost shrimp will take small fish while they're resting, that's the problem with them.
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Funnily enough I showed the picture to one of the guys at my LFS and he thought it was a ghost shrimp, but on looking that up myself later I wasn't convinced, so I think he was just giving it his best guess, glad it's not a ghost shrimp in that case as we have a couple of small fish!