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Because they were originally crossed with Tibee they have Bee and Tiger genes. Then I introduced Taiwan Bees to get Taitibees and much later I introduced OEBT to some and Tangerine Tigers to others hence my affectionate term “ mongrels “ because they have a little bit of everything. I have had numerous shrimp in both black and red that didn’t have the white colours so eventually culled them out. I had fancy Tigers types as well . I put a lot of them outside and only recently started using them to try and get more females. Here are a few that I got initially and eventually they completely lost the white

I’m no expert on specific caridina lines, but I’ve seen these calceo shrimp around. I think your first image would be considered a calceo, while the second would be a bit more of a fancy red tiger (CRSxTTs). At least in my relatively uneducated opinion. They’re certainly cool shrimp. If I had to guess, I’d probably say the ones that are sold are some sort of line bred morph of fancy tigers, with tiger, crs, and maybe some bee heritage. I can’t see that the commercially bred ones would be crossed back to any particular line, so they probably don’t have wonderfully strong genetics. Again, this is purely speculation. It’s pretty interesting that you’ve had some crop up in your tank. Is it just bees, or do you have tiger lineage in there?

So, I’m not quite at the stage of being able to technically call this my ‘betta bonanza’ yet… but I like alliteration, so I’m gonna call it that and say it’s wishful thinking. And maybe my wishes will come true. Those wishes being to breed bettas, and raise a decent amount to sell or breed or give to mates. And share the fun along the way. And to learn as much as I possibly can about these beautiful fish. So far my betta bonanza consists of just one fish, a female red koi/galaxy HMPK I purchased yesterday. I got her from a local breeder, and it was cool to see his setup for breeding and for raising fry. As she was being kept with his females that he’s conditioning, my fish is fully conditioned, and she’s ready to breed (fully coloured up, showing her ovipositor and she’s full of eggs), which is exciting! She’s in a 5 gallon with my blue dream shrimp and a female endler, and I thought if anything, the shrimp might be in danger. But no. He’s fine. She just beat up my endler. I seem to be cursed with vicious female fish. Stemming from this, I rigged up a little DIY tank divider that I’m awfully proud of, so hopefully everyone can be happy. I’ve also got a male coming in the mail this week, so I’ll grab some photos of both of them and their tanks when he arrives. Unfortunately my account is running out of available media attachments, so I’ll have to figure something out to keep posting images. Maybe I’ll just take the effort to get good photos, and pop them in the gallery.

I can’t find out a lot about these shrimp but suspect i have a lot of them except to me they are culls. I started getting Bee shrimp hybrids that had little or no white on them just their red or black stripes. During the last few years while i was out of the shrimp breeding i kept seeing these Calceo shrimp but no write up on their breeding. Can anyone tell me more about them . I have a few photos of mine but I’ve always culled them . I’m keeping these to add some red into my line. Would these be Calceo?

Getting a bit nostalgic now looking at old photos . Here are a few of my favourites from years gone by