Blue velvets

[Shrimp Almighty]

If u breed darker velvets todether will u get darker babies.

 

[MikeB]

the one in your avatar is impressive maybe as i downsize the size of my fish i get back into shrimp.. i know who has the blue ones ps are you the kid rasing his own shrimp? if so thats awsome and gratz to you

 

[pbmax]

I believe that's an Orange Eyed Blue Tiger in his avatar, not a Blue Velvet.

 

[MikeB]

your probly right.. cant see strait.. been working with dart frogs all night after the swap and well beer isnt helping

 

[pbmax]

Neocaridina color is tricky. The blue coloration in blue velvets is similar to that of blue pearls - it's translucent, rather than opaque. Fire red and fire yellow neocaridina have solid, opaque coloring that you can't see through. These guys were selectively bred so that the coloring is more pervasive as opposed to darker, or at least so it seems from photos and my experience with RCS (they throw a "painted fire red" female every once and a while).

A lot of neocaridina coloration has to do with the background they're sitting on. That said, I really haven't seen blue velvets of significantly different coloration sitting next to each other on the same substrate in the same photo. You can't go with different photos from different people and different tanks to say that one is darker or not because their color is so environmental and the white balance of the camera could easily be inaccurate.

So to sum up: good question; I dunno.

 

[Shrimp Almighty]

I know that my pic is a oebts but I just got some blue velvets

 

[BillHN]

your probly right.. cant see strait.. been working with dart frogs all night after the swap and well beer isnt helping

U were there? Didn't see yah xD

 

[JesseM]

If you selectively breed the bluest ones over many generations there is a possibility you could end up with a darker blue. But like PBmax said Neo genetics can be tricky.

 

[hawaiian opae]

JesseM what do you feed your Blue velets? Brand?

 

[JesseM]

JesseM what do you feed your Blue velets? Brand?

-Hakari shrimp granules
-Hakari crab cuisine
-Hakari Massiovre Delite
-NLS h20 stable algae wafers
-Kens's veggie sticks with calcium
-Mosura Special
-Rapashy Shrimp soufflé
-Blood worms
-Blanched zucchini
- Dried seaweed
-Indian Almond leafs
-Alders Cones
-Alders leafs

 

[pbmax]

I feed mine ken's veggie sticks with ca, ken's catfish sticks, mosura excel, nettle and dwarf maple leaves.