Familie: Atyidae
Orangene Garnele (Sunkist): eine gesättigte Orangen-Zuchtform der Neocaridina davidi. 2-2,5 cm, bei 18-26 °C zufrieden und leicht züchtbar; Farben getrennt halten, da alle Morphen sich kreuzen.
Orange Shrimp, known in Asia as the Sunkist morph, is a bright tangerine selection of Neocaridina davidi bred from the same Taiwanese and Japanese lines that produced the red cherry. The orange grade is surprisingly recent — dedicated orange lines only stabilized in the early 2000s — and good specimens show a saturated, opaque orange over the entire body with no wild-type banding. It reaches 2-2.5 cm, grazes biofilm continuously, and shares the species' famous tolerance: 18-26 °C, pH 6.5-8.0 and moderate hardness all suit it. In the aquarium it is an active daytime cleaner that works moss, wood and leaf litter, and it breeds as readily as the red form — females carry 20-30 eggs and the young hatch as miniature adults. A group of ten or more will establish quickly; just keep colors separated, because all N. davidi morphs interbreed and mixed colonies drift back toward the wild brown form within a few generations.
Anfängergeeignet und fehlerverzeihend. Extremely peaceful. Groups of 10 or more.
Ideal sind 18–26 °C ohne starke Schwankungen.
Ausgewachsen 2–2.5 cm. Wegen seiner Lebensweise (Bottom — grazing plants and hardscape) sind 20 L oder mehr sinnvoll.
Algae and biofilm grazer; color foods keep hues intense. Es wühlt in fine inert gravel or shrimp-safe sand — lass etwas Futter den Boden erreichen.
Extremely peaceful; Groups of 10 or more. Gute Partner: Other Neocaridina davidi morphs — Interbreed — keep one color per tank for pure lines, Small peaceful community fish — Adults survive; provide moss for shrimplets, Otocinclus and small plecos — Peaceful algae crew with identical water needs.Nicht mit Copper-based medications — Lethal to all invertebrates, Large-mouthed fish — Angelfish, gouramis and cichlids will eat shrimp, Different N. davidi colors — Cross-breeding produces drab wild-type offspring.
Stammt aus Selective-bred form of the East Asian Neocaridina; lebt in any stable freshwater community aquarium. Gentle current; moderate oxygen.
In der Zucht: breeds continuously in freshwater. The female molts, releases pheromones to attract males, then carries 20-30 orange-green eggs under her abdomen for roughly three weeks. Free-swimming larval stage absent — hatchlings are miniature adults feeding on biofilm and fine powder.. Females grow larger and deeper with a bright orange saddle visible before spawning; males are slimmer, smaller and noticeably paler..