jumpsmasher Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 My Black Tiger Shrimps have always been one of the favourite species in my collection; they breed true unlike Orange Eye Blue Tiger (OEBT) shrimps and since mine has some Royal Blue Tiger genes in them most of them has a nice blue sheer when view against the light. Theory is they came about by selective breeding the black stripes to be thicker and thicker in regular tigers until eventually they cover the whole body and appear be be solid black. Royal Blue Tigers were the result of crossing back with OEBT to achieve the blue base color. From what I tell around most my offsprings look like Royal blue tigers but one they get older they shell get alot darker so generally don't consider Royal Blue tigers unless they stay more translucence blue. The downside of having royal blue genes is you do get the occasional black tiger with less than ideal black coverage and look like they are regular tiger stripes albeit it is harder to tell as they get older as they turn black but normal juvies generally look lighter in color compared to dark OEBT juvies as they have a nice translucence blue body. I hope one day to get a seperate, more pure strain of BTOE without the royal blue gene. Another reason why they are one of favourites is the females that i have left are some of oldest and largest dwarf shrimps in my collection. My "Big Mamma" as I like to call her is around 3.5-4cm and even my oldest male is 3+ cm. They are generally quite shy and too active to get a good shot but last night after I fed them, they were quite social and hung around in the open for a bit so I grabbed my camera and decided to try my hands at shooting some video. Enjoy the shrimp porn! Best viewed in fullscreen at 1080p : ) My "Big Mamma" A couple of the other younger females and some juvies - warning very long video :P forgive my choppy camera movement, didn't have a very good tripod and still figuring out how to focus quickly and edit videos (there was lots of sections where it went out of focus or out of frame than i should have removed) Hung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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