The Blue Pearl Shrimp is another fairly new shrimp to the hobby having been selectively bred in Germany and introduced to the USA in 2006. The Blue Pearl Shrimp is quite easy to care for and breed and similar in this respect to many other Neocaridina. My shrimp show a wide variety of blue hues from a very nice baby blue to very light blue and I am trying to selectively breed these shrimp to bring out more blue. I will add more as I gain experience with these shrimp having only kept them for a couple months now.

The chart is a guideline only and these shrimp are very adaptable and will survive in much cooler water with lower or higher PH than shown, but the parameters shown are recommended for best health and color as well as breeding. As young your Blue Pearl Shrimp show very little color, but as they mature some will become a brilliant blue while the others although not colorless stay somewhat clear with a blue tint. More time still needs to be spent by breeders to selectively breed for more blue into their colonies over time. The females as with most dwarf shrimp will show more color than males and are larger.

The Blue Pearl Shrimp will reach sexual maturity in 6 to 8 weeks on average depending on water conditions and temp. Females will show a brown "saddle" when ready to breed and also carry from 15 to 40 brown eggs depending on age and size of the female for about 2 weeks again depending on water quality and temperature give or take a few days. The young are released as mini versions of the adults with no larval stage.

Keeping these shrimp happy and healthy is as easy as keeping the water very clean and using a sponge filter or keeping a sponge pre filter over your canister or hang on the back filter is recommended to keep baby shrimp from being sucked into the filter. The young are not much more than 3 mm long at birth and easily sucked into your average filter. As with all Dwarf Shrimp it is recommended they be kept in a shrimp only tank as most fish will eat the young shrimp, yes even guppies and the shrimp will be much more active when not worried about being eaten. Shrimp are much more active and act more naturally when in their own tank and do not spend all their time hiding.

My Blue Pearl Shrimp are tank raised by me and kept in excellent health and I do have some available for purchase from time to time. I prefer to sell only juvenile shrimp from 1/4 to 1/2 inch long because they ship and adapt to your tanks parameters better and live a longer life than if you are sent adults that you have no clue as to age. Your Blue Pearl Shrimp will live from 1 to 1.5 years on average so getting youngsters is a good idea. Please check my forum for availability