Caridina Balbaulti Green

[BlueBolts]

Just officially introducing a variety I've been working on for 9+ months...the "Green Balbaulti". Fell in love with this shrimp primarily for its colour, and more importantly it's inability to cross with the Cherry's and TB's/Tigers/CRS's....Etc, the perfect 3rd ornamental shrimp variety excl. our natives.

Sharing tanks with my snowball colony

The eggs are tiny and green .....PLEASE, don't ask how I extracted them....the answer will offend :o

Info extracted from the net ....

Scientific Name: Caridina cf. babaulti

PH Range: 6.5 - 7.5 (7.3)

Temperature Range: 20-28 (24)

GH - 4-12 (8)

KH - 0-10 (4)

TDS - 80-350 (250)

Life Span: 1 - 2 years

*Numbers in brackets are my current WP.

Green Shrimp History

The green shrimps were given the name "babaulti" by Mr. Guy Babault who collected a large amount of new species of birds, fish and reptiles throughout his explorationmissions worldwide. He collected some of these shrimps in the freshw ater rivers of India in the year 1914.

Green Shrimp Care

The Green Shrimp is an undemanding shrimp in its care requirements. They should be kept in a well established aquarium with no predators. The most important factor for water parameter is stability and as long as none of the water parameters are in the extremes Green Shrimp should be happy and healthy.

Green Shrimp Diet

The Green Shrimp is an Omnivore. They are decent for aquarium algae control. Being algae eaters, if sufficient algae is not present, foods intended for aquarium fish and invertebrates can be used to supplement their diet. Another great supplement is blanched (boiled until soft) vegetables

Green Shrimp Breeding

The green shrimp breeds quite easily and generally have quite a few eggs. The eggs are smaller then other Caridina such as the Red Cherry Shrimp, and therefore the babies are also smaller and harder to raise. Breeding should occur in wel run tanks, that have been cycling for some time. Although these shrimp breed in large numbers, they are not the easiest to breed!

Green Shrimp Behavior

Green Shrimps a very non-aggressive. They spend most of the day grazing on plants, gravel and any other tank decorations for algae and other types of foods. Green Shrimps will get along very will with any other type of dwarf shrimp that is non-aggressive. When the Green Shrimp is kept in an aquarium that has no predators they are very active and only hide after molting (shedding exoskeleton to enable growth).

I've been experimenting and attempting to acclimatise them to suit TB/Tiger WP, thus the shrimp survival % isnt great! BUT, in 1-2 more generations, I'm confident I'll get them breeding well to these WP.

Definitely one of my favourite shrimps..... Will have these available after the next F generation, so in 1-2 months ....

[Squiggle]

Awesome stuff BB, gotta love those spunky greenies. :victorious:

[BristledOne]

:o I was literally looking around online in awe at these last night! Dare I ask how much they are? I'd be super keen as the water parameters aren't too demanding and as you said they cant crossbreed with the other species we keep!

*drool*

[neosin]

Any chance you've been secretly breeding sulawesi shrimp as well? haha!

I'm praying to the shrimp gods for someone with a decent colony to spread the love

[BlueBolts]

Any chance you've been secretly breeding sulawesi shrimp as well? haha!

I'm praying to the shrimp gods for someone with a decent colony to spread the love

Sorry, you haven't got security clearance to ask this question :anonymous: ..... Area 51 is strictly classified...LOL. What are sulawesi shrimps ? Never heard of them :friendly_wink:

[neosin]

Sorry' date=' you haven't got security clearance to ask this question :anonymous: ..... Area 51 is strictly classified...LOL. What are sulawesi shrimps ? Never heard of them :friendly_wink:[/quote']

LOL!

Guess I'm officially first in line when you officially announce them down the track :cool-new:

[Garnelchen]

I have seen these on overseas websites! They look awesome!

Is there anything you haven't got, Marcus? ;)

[Wraithie]

These look amazing! Nice work :)

[KillieOrCory]

Very very nice Marcus :encouragement: Need more tanks :p

[warren63]

Those green shrimps are amazing!!! Well done on the breeding success. Interesting to read a shrimp that wont interbreed with crystals & cherries. Pencilled them on the''wanted'' list.

[KiwiBigD]

Put me down for some as well mate, really great to see.

[Adam2806]

Wow, these are great, you can put me down for some too

[northboy]

So when are they going to be released? looks like just in time for my ne system

Bob

[NoGi]

Nice, put me down for some. Just started up my tank again.

[poeticwinter]

wow...that looks like nice vegetarian shrimp lol perfect green. again great work BB

[al4n]

Wow, nice shrimps BB.. whats the price for these ?

[BlueBolts]

Wow' date=' nice shrimps BB.. whats the price for these ?[/quote']

My goal for any rare/difficult shrimp in Aust, is to breed 100, to ensure they remain in our hobby before I sell them etc... Plus the $ invested can be divided to the masses, making them affordable. So just depends on when they are release...no idea ATM, but will put some thought on them over the next few weeks..

[Neo-shrimp]

Hello Marcus just out of curisoty how much would a pair of Green Shrimp Balbauti cost ATM ? Not in the Shrimp Price Guide...Very nice looking shrimps...Thanks for the info.

[crazyshrimp]

how did you extract the eggs lol... awesome looking shrimp mate!!

[newbreed]

Great to see other options to keep that wont cross breed with the crystals and cherries. More variety in the tank!! Hmm, look forward to hearing more about these beauties as time progresses!! Great work once again BB!!

[scottymac]

I am a fan,

I will start saving now in preparation for their release.

Great stuff BlueBolts

[BlueBolts]

I'll have them ready for the next auction (9th Feb)... Will let the market dictate the $, as it's personally difficult for me.

[BRISSY]

I'll have them ready for the next auction (9th Feb)... Will let the market dictate the $' date=' as it's personally difficult for me.[/quote']

Will they be available at that price after that date to forum members?:cheerful:

[BlueBolts]

I won't release more till the next generation, i.e. 1-2 months, so there's lots of advantage of winning the auction :-)

[durro68]

Nice one BB! and great shrimp ..... again