[EKLiu]

Hi all,

I suspect that population density plays a part in shrimp coloration. Perhaps a shrimp with fewer neighbors has less stress and colors up better? My main CRS tank is quite crowded now (hundreds of CRS in a 25 gal cube tank) and very few of the shrimp look as good as the shrimp in a different tank which is sparsely populated (12 shrimp in a 20 long) and consists of shrimp originally from the main tank.

 

[EKLiu]

That's my best shrimp BTW. Nearly perfect white.

 

[10gallonplanted]

Get some mineral rocks, made my red and whites more solid.

 

[mordalphus]

that shrimp has great red as well, a real keeper

 

[MsNemoShrimp]

Get some mineral rocks, made my red and whites more solid.

Really? I heard its only a sales gimmic...

 

[HiepSTA]

i find using acrylic paint works better than tempera or oil paint

or you could try to selectively breed for it, but thats too easy

 

[Cynth]

Very nice shrimp.

 

[EKLiu]

To add what I had said in the first post, here is a current pic of a SSS I pulled from my main tank a few months ago. At the time his white coloration was really poor, like cull tank poor. I suspect that stress from being in a crowded tank causes poor coloration/loss of color.

Now after spending a few months relaxing in the sparsely populated CPD tank his coloration is decent. Sorry I don't have a "before" pic. There's only one shrimp + reflection in the picture.

 

[koldsoup]

Interesting. I may have to try this too. My CRS's white became paler over time and I couldn't figure out why. I thought it was because I moved them to a different tank but you may be onto something.

 

[EKLiu]

I have had male shrimp loose a lot of color after I move them to a different tank. It takes a long time before the color comes back.