They are the highest grade of blue velvet shrimp with deep sapphire blue color. They can vary from a deep dark and opaque blue color to light and splotchy as well as everything in.
Blue Velvet Shrimp
Grading blue dream shrimp neocaridina davidi var.
Blue dream shrimp vs blue velvet. Bred from the same wild type as sakura red cherry shrimp the dream blue velvet shrimp is a color variant of the neocaridina davidi formerly neocaridina heteropoda species. Most blue neos blue dreams blue pearls blue velvets etc are easy too but with blues and colors other than the common reds you want to make sure to verify whether or not they are usa or locally bred or imported. Google images pulls up different things for dream blue shrimp deep blue nearly black head tail compared to blue velvet shrimp cyan or light blue no dark tails with overlap.
Just keep in mind that these names are not scientific so they are mostly distinguished by coloration. Little is known about how this variant came to be bred but they are slowly gaining in popularity within the dwarf shrimp hobby due to their stunning coloration and ease of care. Algae babaulti bloody mary blue dream blue velvet shrimps cambarellus patzcuarensis var.
A family chart shows blue velvet descended from carbon rili from black from chocolate. Johnfish most neocaridina are easy to take care of. Blue dream should be a darker blue and velvet is a lighter and more translucent blue.
The blue dream shrimp that have the red color is known as the blue jelly or the blue velvet. Blue dream like all neocaridina davidi varieties including the immensely popular red cherry the blue dream shrimp was created through selective breeding of a brownish wild type shrimp the resulting blue specimens are not created equal. Now male shrimp are normally less likely to hold a particular coloration so dark velvet shrimp might look like blue velvet if they re low grade.
Caring dream blue velvet shrimp are easy to care for as they can adapt to a wide range of water parameters they can be kept in either. Other shrimp keepers believe that blue dream originates from chocolate wild schoko shrimp and blue velvet shrimp is the result of blue carbon rili and blue dream crossbreeding. But they also list a blue coming directly from chocolates.
Dream blue velvet shrimp are also called fantasy blue velvet or blue dreams. The ease of care and their stunning color make them one of the most sought after shrimps in the hobby. Orange caridina cantonensis caridina shrimps chocolate shrimps cpo crab crystal red shrimps cure daphnia davidi decoration equipment fish food for shrimps freshwater shrimps golden bee golden yellow shrimps heteropoda marmorkrebs crayfish mexican orange.
Cherries are usually recommended because they are the heartiest and cheapest other than ghost shrimp.
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