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Yamato Shrimp

 
Yamato Shrimp
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The yamato shrimp was introduced into the world of aquaria by Takashi Amano in the early eighties. Takashi Amano is a well known photographer and aquarist. He would have been the first who noticed these shrimps' useful characteristic of eating algae and started using them in his show aquaria. Thus yamato shrimps are often called amano shrimps as well.

The most important characteristic of the yamato shrimp is the translucent body covered with reddish brown points of ~0.3mm on their sides which may look like a broken line of reddish colour. The dorsal surface has a white stripe that runs from the head to the tail and the eyes are black.

Females are easily distinguised from males from the more elongated lower row of dots lining the body.

Like all aquaria shrimps, the yamato shrimps are very sensitive to water parameters. Although compared to other species of shrimps, they are considered to be more hardy.

 
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