Baby CBS with blue tinge to head area .... is this normal?

[durro68]

Hey there

This guy is from my first CBS babies (there are several like this) ....

The parents have no blue tinge around head area.

Just wondering if this is normal?

I'll try get a better picture to upload.

Cheers

Greg

[Gbang]

durro that is one mighty fine shrimp! typically i believe when cbs moult their black becomes a blue tinge for a few days (mine behave like this) so have a look in three days and tell us if he or she gets back to black. if that the case you just have a spectacular sss cbs. alternatively, if that's not the case there's some taiwan genes in there ;) keep them and breed them for their blue! tell us how u go mate and good luck

[lachie1998]

very nice cbs, im no shrimp expert but i would seperate all of them that show the blue on them in there own tank and try selective breed the blue, when they breed keep the shrimplets that show the blue adn the ones that dont remove them.

[Dean]

is there any chance that the parent CBS is a mishling?

if so i would cross the baby with the blue back with one of the parents to get the tai gene stronger and more tai babies.

or could be as Gbang said and just moulted????? keep us updated

[Foxpuppet]

What grade are the parents? Do you know the genetics of the parents or have you only recently added them? Perhaps ask the shrimp keeper you sourced them from if they ever had blue bolt or tai-bee in same tank... You could be very lucky!!! ;)

[durro68]

Thanks for the feedback ..... it is what I was hoping to hear but didn't want to say it myself!

Parents are SS CBS ..... I don't know the genetic background .... I have 3 from one seller and 6 from another .... not sure who the parents of this guy are though!

Lucky there are 5 or 6 like the one pictured!

Foxy I will ask that question!

[Foxpuppet]

It can never hurt to ask, I now know myself that the strangest of scenarios can arise when different shrimp are housed together, some times they may be looked over as in it being to small to mate or something and then blamo you have shrimplets of different colour grade in your tank than you thought possible at the time ;) sometimes its just luck!