Soothing Shrimp Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Came across something interesting. Someone managed to cross a paracard and card in 2011. https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.crustahunter.com%2Fkreuzungsversuche-die-erste-paracaridina-x-caridina%2F&edit-text=&act=url Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Yea that's the article I read when I discovered the other shrimp lol. Was researching crossing between strains. I wonder if anyone has crossed them with Taiwan bees. If they cross with crs then they should be able to mate with them. This would create something new and exciting! -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ctaylor3737 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 I read an article and lost the link. It was about a theory of placing a male and female shrimp of different species known not to breed and leave them in a tank alone. The theory is that eventually they will breed as an act of survival. Not sure this is the case as I've kept tanks mixed since I've had shrimp. Never tried to isolate though. Makes me wonder and might use a small 2g for this as a test. Guess it couldn't hurt to try the theory. I imagine it would take a very long time if at all they would. -Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High5's Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 I think that would be the best way to go about it. Good ole Darwin, did know that marine iguanas have crossed with land iguanas on the Galapagos Islands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00camaro16 Posted June 20, 2014 Report Share Posted June 20, 2014 Basically what we are doing is forced evolution. But I'm not sure it could be forced within a single shrimp life, but that would also depend on how far the breeds are from eachother on the evolutionary track. Someone needs to go get their PhD in biology for this... on that subject my very close family friend in Germany has his PhD in biophysics I should ask him is he knows anything or at least find some thesis on the subjest. I would assume with shrimp ing having popularity in Germany there are a few papers written on it. Sent from my SM-N900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted June 21, 2014 Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 the prob is even if they breed they might be sterile. or like in the case of my battle cat shrimp the female would berry but drop all the eggs before they were due Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted June 21, 2014 Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 I have some fire reds... I only got 5 and only eneded up with one male and im really starting to think there's something wrong with him.... kind of a bumme Derek Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
High5's Posted June 21, 2014 Report Share Posted June 21, 2014 the prob is even if they breed they might be sterile. or like in the case of my battle cat shrimp the female would berry but drop all the eggs before they were dueOrange/ green shrimp tiger striped? Battle cat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 yeah. It was nice too. Had a male/female that was forwarded to me from wicca. Unfortunately, no shrimplets before they "expired." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted June 22, 2014 Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 so i did some poking around soothing. turns out i know what might have happened. i was told they were a green neo at first. the original came from nabobmob. the girl i got them from a close friend of both of us had them IDed by rachel as caridina cf. babaulti rainbow. i had a couple blue ones show up in my oebt/ orange neo tank so i tossed them in with the rili thinking that is what they were sine they were blue. some how i ended up with the pair. but that would also explain why they never carried to full term. mord had said he had card x neo cross and same thing would happen they would berry but drop all the eggs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 As unlikely as that sounds, that may have indeed been the scenario. Forced breeding without meaning to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 personally i still say they looked like neo's to me but i have never had babaulti. guess we will never know though. a shame they didnt make it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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