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Crustacea 2
 
West-African shrimp
An import out of West-Africa
The famous Caridina serrata
A knight from Nigeria
Attyopsis moluccensis

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Identification is particularly therefore so difficult because during their development the animals go through different transformations in shape and in color as well. To decide on if you deal with an animal still young that will change or a mature specimen is not simple. On the page Crustacae 4 (22) I have placed a portrait of such a floating shrimp You may guess (tell) what will grow out of it, or is the an,al mature already? Next problem where you'll encounter is that there is so little literature about it. A very nice book concerning this is appeared in the de series Aqua Log. Uwe Werner has collected in it a whole series of photographs of good quality. Concerning the determination he also does not manage a lot more than the things already known.

Yet the book is highly recommended because it brings up all sorts of information about care and cultivation: Garnelen, Krebsen und Krabben im Suszwasseraquarium ISBN 3 - 931702 - 52 - 9
On this page on top left a shrimp imported from West-Africa by Tropifish. On the right the in the main time grown to great fame Molucca shrimp; Attyopsis moluccensis. A "trap-net-shrimp". I call them so because of the stiff hair on the forepaws which can be spread to a kind of a planktonnet. Under in the mid the beeshrimp is to be recognized clearly. It is flanked by other beauties wearing a suit of armor out of Africa. Every thing that can be told about it must be based on guesses.