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Neocaridina palmata "Nectarine shrimp"*

Apperance:	Small even for Caridina or Neocaridina. On the back it has a delicate line. Carapax might have different pigmentation depending from the place of born, usually it's brown or gray, but it might even become green or blue. Innards have intensive orange color. It's the color type of Neocaridina palmata shrimp.
Origin:	Unknown
Size:	Males and females to 2,5 cm. .
Water conditions:	Temp round 25 C, 8 GH, pH 7. It's sensitive to higher temperatures.
Tank layout:	Sand substrate, roots, small leafes plants, oak, beech and alder leafes on the bottom.
Food:	Algae, artificial aliments with spirulin, dead animals, leafes of oak, bleech and alder.
Breeding:	No larvae stadium. Female carries about 40 eggs for about 3 - 4 weeks. Eggs are black.

When you see them for the first time first idea you have is that if they had eaten whole tangerines :) With good, strong light the "balls" inside body have intensive color (they might even seems to be little fluorescent). Group of these shrimps on black background looks really amazing. Probably these tangerines in shrimps are created by not sponger fungus. This interesting phenomenon gives them a real charm. Sometimes you might find ones with white saddles. It worth to take a closer look at them.

It is also called "Redback Shrimp".

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