WTB...Looking for..Tiger shrimp

[eklikewhoa]

Re: WTB...Looking for..Tiger shrimp

Didn't know flamingos were fed color dying foods....


I will start a post with my shrimp sp's

[Mzungu]

Re: WTB...Looking for..Tiger shrimp

Don't want to change the topic too much, but I was looking around for the specific things they eat that give them their coloring (naturally) and found something weird.

From this website: http://www.swbg-adventurecamps.com/i...servation.html

1. Flamingos are fed a varied diet in zoological environments in order to maintain their pink coloration, as well as their general health.

2. SeaWorld feeds flamingos Mazuri Flamingo Complete Dietâ„¢ which includes fish meal; soybean meal; meat and bone meal; brewers dried yeast; vitamin B-12, A, E, and D-3 supplements; and some minerals. Submerged food trays are used to accommodate flamingos' filter-feeding habits.

Have the "green algae eater shrimp" lost any color?

[eklikewhoa]

Re: WTB...Looking for..Tiger shrimp

The green algae eaters are actually a really dark blue and they have lost none of their coloration

[GatorRock]

Re: WTB...Looking for..Tiger shrimp

Wow feels like I completely missed out on a lot of conversation not checking until now!  Damn got to work to eat and buy more fish thing!

Anyhow obviously they had quite a few shrimp at CP- and as for the "black" shrimp I'll post pics when I get home tonight- took some sorta good ones (i don't have a macro lens yet) - you can see how blue they really are-

But I must say I have a dark red/brown one- and all the blue ones have some red too or so it seems- so I may argue that they may be a Rainbow shrimp- of course my shrimp knowledge is so limited right now, I'm probably wrong.

Good to know they should keep they're color if they aren't rainbow/blue/green what ever shrimp.

Also being the Orlando native that I am- Flamingos in the wild get the color from the micro-organisms they ingest in the wild- they made sure to add those nutrients in to the food so they could keep the color-

I've always wonderd could they see if they could make blue or purple birds too... hmmm