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Received the Blue Star Endlers today, and just finished acclimating them for the last 9+ hours. Moved them into their own tank. Lights are off for them to get used to it. Thanks again Wayne.

YAY! When you turn the lights on I’d love to see some photos!

The 2 in your photos are 100% Taiwan bees so just enjoy them, as I say they are rare so you may not get them again and there is a possibility they may darken with age to the point they look black unless in very strong light? Mine only looked a clear blue when out in the open under direct strong light. Hopefully yours will stay the colour they are now, but just be aware. Simon

First asked my local facebook shrimp group and the response was they might be a neo too :). But since the famous rah-bop chart includes blue jelly and green hulk variations, i want to believe these two are not hitchikers but TB variation. I have no idea about the line too since the colony is really mixed right now. Thanks for the info and the blue king kongs are really cool. I will keep observing if any other individual is present right now or in the future.

No, they are known (but very rare) colour morphs from crossing different colour/pattern of Taiwan bee. Rendo Shrimp sell them if you want to look on that website (germany), just scroll down, they are near the bottom. https://www.rendo-shrimp.de/epages/62701010.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62701010/Categories/Garnelen/Caridina/Taiwan_Bee_Garnelen I have no idea though what they are a cross between,my blue were among so many different collours/patters that I didn't know who the parents were? I only started with a few red wine, red ruby and then added a few blue bolts/steel and after about a year had hundreds covering almost every know pattern/colour. Years ago I saw blue jelly shrimp for sale over here, but they were neocaridina and had no patterns at all! But I think blue jelly are neocaridina? Simon

Thanks, i never put neocaridina in this tank. I started with PRLs, suprisingly they threw some RW and RRs in the second batch. Then i brought some panda's and BBs. I wonder how those two are turned out bluish or greenish as you noticed. Some say they may hitchhike with the plants from other tanks but thats very low chance for my case.

Very, very nice! Is one blue and one green as it looks in the photo - sometimes photos can distort the colour a little? I loved the fact a mixed tank throws out such variety, but being Caridina they were never boring, as happens with mixing the neocaridina! Simon

I wonder if those two are jellies? Got a mixed TB tank for three years now and this is the first time i see them. Sent from my SM-G925F using Tapatalk

Thanks so much for this! I think I'm going to try putting it into my gummy bear candy molds for tiny amounts ready toss in.

Haha fair enough. I'll be dripping mine in. All of my tanks are fit for (or stocked with) endlers already, with enough acclimatisation. Even the one with a pH of 5-5.5 ?

Hi Jayc, The parameters are fairly broad: Temperature between 22-27c P.H 6.7-8.5 Ammonia Low-0ppm nitrate under 20ppm general hardness 100-300ppm Personally I am a minimalistic fish keeper, I don't have any idea of my own tanks parameters. I have been practicing this min approach for around 20 years now and find that the least i play with the tanks the less trouble I get ,so I only do evaporation top ups, Temperatures are usually around 27c, I only change or clean filters when they stop working, I keep plenty of plants in the tanks and have real good surface flow, I also have native shrimp ( local caught) as a clean up crew and some nitrate snails . I have found that Endlers are a fairly hardy bunch and get along fine if you leave them to it Cheers Wayne

Wayne, Thank you for the fun competition. That was the most fun I have had on SKFA for a long time. I have done more research on Endlers than I would have cared to a couple of weeks ago. And I can gladly go away saying I know a little bit more than when this competition was started. Can I ask what water parameters you keep these Blue Stars in? I have cleared out a 2ft tank ready for these fellas. Its already an established tank, so it's fully cycled. Just wanted to get the parameters right. Thanks again Wayne. Appreciate the generosity.